RA Guy on May 27th, 2010

In my last post, I spoke about an upcoming schedule change – instead of spending my mornings at the university, I would now be spending my afternoons at the university.
As luck would have it, during the past few weeks my most difficult moments had been sometime during the afternoon. I wasn’t exactly sure how things [...]

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RA Guy on May 20th, 2010

My schedule is undergoing a major change today. Instead of teaching a morning class and a midday class, I will now be teaching a midday class and an afternoon class.
Normally this wouldn’t be big news…except for the fact that over the past couple  of weeks my worst flares have taken place smack dab in the [...]

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RA Guy on February 20th, 2010

It’s three o’clock in the morning, and I just got home from a social outing with my new coworkers. The evening was fun…not only am I getting to know the people that I work with a little bit better, but I am also celebrating the fact that my cold of ten days is finally tapering [...]

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RA Guy on February 8th, 2010

Over the past few days I received quite a few emails from different people, asking me how I was doing (as I had not posted in a few days). I really appreciate this outpouring of concern and support!
In a previous post, I had mentioned that I was going to lower the pace of my blogging [...]

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RA Guy on September 23rd, 2009

A few weeks ago, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy wrote about a stressful period that he encountered in response to the possibility of upcoming in-person interview. (Good Lists Versus Bad Lists) Part of the anxiety resulted from the fact that would be one of the first times in which my disability would be a visible part of [...]

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RA Guy on September 3rd, 2009

Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy has written many times about the fact that he went to architecture school for his undergraduate and graduate degrees. What I have talked about less often is the hybrid career track that I have followed during the last decade, and how I balance living with rheumatoid arthritis and my work.
When I was [...]

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