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In a few minutes I will be at Chelsea Piers here in New York City convening with 400 other women for the Second Annual "Reinvention Convention" organized by MORE Magazine. The kind people at MORE have invited me to witness this all day event for women over the age of 40 on such things as work, finances, health, beauty and fashion.

I can't wait.

Today I'll get to meet the likes of Isaac Mizrahi, Vanessa Williams, Cybill Shepherd, and, oh my blog, the always mind-blowing Carly Fiorina. I can't wait to see close-up one of the women who could have been the VP to John McCain, if only he had a clue.
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It's September 11, 2008.

We're seven years away from the attack on the Twin Towers. We're also 7 days away from the closing of the Republican National Convention.

The same convention in which Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin and even John McCain himself spent their time deriding community organizers and community service all the while claiming to be the party of people "who put service before self" in their quest to keep "America First".

So what am I going to do in a couple of hours? Thanks to the fine people of Kenneth Cole's Awearness blog, am going to the Service Nation Presidential Forum, to cover Barack Obama and John McCain and see them discuss their thoughts on community service and ... ahem ... community organizers.
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3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental Health

Saturday, February, 9, 2008
9:00Am to 6:00PM
NYU Medical Center
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016

To Register: http://www.med.nyu.edu/ichr/chad/events/events.html

Conference Fee: $50 General, $20 Students

The 3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental Health is an interdisciplinary meeting that brings together physicians, social workers, psychologists, public health professionals and policy makers to discuss the status of mental health among peoples of the African Diaspora. The one-day conference will provide an opportunity for a better understanding of mental health issues across the demographic cross-section of peoples of African descent through a comprehensive discourse of the social, medical and demographic framework that shapes mental health policy, diagnosis and treatment. Over 250 participants are expected and confirmed speakers include: Hugh Hendrie, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine; Hugh Butts, MD, Author, Racism & Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; David Henderson, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Jacqueline Mattis, PhD, New York University; Kirby Randolph, PhD, Kansas Medical School; Ernest Marquez, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health; Alfonso Wyatt, MDiv, Fund for the City of New York; Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Manhattan Borough Deputy President; Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, PhD, CUNY, Bellevue/ NYU Program for Survivors of Torture; and Robert Fullilove, EdD, Columbia University.
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Have you ever heard of PCFS? Post-Conference Fatigue Syndrome is what happens to many people after going to a mojor technology or political conference.

At a place like PDF2007 I got hit on every front with both networking and information overload. Too much information, too many personal details to remember to track.

The brain is ready to explode.

Don't get me wrong --I loved every minute of it. But being around so many people and so many ideas can be exhausting. Especially when you come back home to 12 loads of stinky laundry.

I have a podcast to put up and a follow up to the panel I was part of and the unconference session I facilitated. Good stuff, but apologies for being a bit sluggish.

I leave for JFK to get on a flight to Austin, Texas. No thanks to Continental Airlines, I will have a three hour layover in Houston.

Sigh.

I will check in once I get there. I will also post more about the panel and what we would like to accomplish with the launch of The Digital Ethnorati project.

For the feminists out there, pay attention. This is basically what I have been trying to do with y'all.

Stay tuned.