So I'm sitting at the SFO airport, waiting to board my red-eye flight back to Detroit. I'm also trying to recover from a flu-like spell that hit me Friday night, and is now reduced to mostly nasal congestion. Needless to say, my plans for a wacky weekend in SF were decimated by my sudden illness. I did manage to make it out Saturday night to see many of my friends in San Francisco, which was remarkable given my state of affairs Friday night (high fever, body aches, chills, etc). Gross!

But in happier news, the HIV "Risk, Behavior, and Agency" working group (I'm not really sure what to call it yet) that I was attending went pretty smoothly. It included officials from SF's Department of Public Health, the CDC, a smattering of activists, HIV prevention social scientists (Jeff Parsons, Barry Adam, Bob Grant, and many more!), and sexuality theorists (Gayle Rubin, John Gagnon, Kane Race, and others). David Halperin and Bob Grant co-organized the meeting. I can't (and wouldn't want to) speak for the group, but I found the 2-day intense gathering useful in considering the state of affairs for HIV prevention generally in America. Most interventions are currently failing, and so the idea behind the gathering was to brainstorm new approaches to prevention that might reinvigorate the field. I'm not sure we were able to make any firm conclusions, but we'll meet again soon hopefully to further our thinking.

Now, as I sit here at the airport, I feel just exhausted. I fly into Michigan (where it's negative 5 degrees) at about 5:00 AM. And then I have statistics homework to do, a crapload of reading I'm behind on, and a paper to write -- all before Tuesday! All with the flu and (at best) 3 hours of sleep.

Fuck. A. Duck.