I signed up for a counselling centre today. It's run by the Church of Scotland but is recommended as activist-friendly.→[More:]

There will be an assessment and then a waiting list..

Watching Africa on tv. discussions of rape, child soldiers, child rape by child soldiers, drugs, flies and starvation. Dirt roads and crumbling buildings.

Three young men from Darfur were on our bus to the antiwar protest.

I am having difficulty at work. It's just so harsh there. I can't just take days off or freak out or go to sleep at my desk. I wonder if there's some internal damage that comes from hiding how I feel all the time.