Re:

so try paxil. or lexapro,... don't merely give up

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM, ██████████████████████ wrote:

Sorry for yet another delay. I think the Urban Poverty presentation went really well but you should ask Boris to double check me on that? He sat right behind me. It was 90 minutes and I had a really good time. I enjoyed it. I took your advice and tried hard to avoid words like "difficult, challenging, never and stupid: I think I did say "retarded" once when speaking of Nigeria. It slipped.

Melinda was very engaged and Bill just kept rocking back and forth in his chair and saying "incredible" and when we walked out he looked at me said "incredible." So I think/hope they felt like I was a good steward of their resources for that particular portfolio. Of the $150+ spent ($248M committed) I earned $170M in cash, leveraged $4.25 billion (Three WB concessions 1B, 3B, 250M for India, India and Uganda) and hopefully pushed the envelope with 4 consitutional legal victories (Ecuador, South Africa, Pew, Colombia) and of course the regular outputs. I spent a few years underpromising so I think they were expecting the worst.

Yesterday was a whirlwind. I had to shoot several videos, debrief everyone around me and of course spend some time with Steve. I tried hard to hack the website and he knows I am trying to do it. He's blocking me bigtime. He's worried that "relationship management tools" might reflect poorly on him and so he's doing everything possible to stop me from accessing them. Don't worry I am clever.

I will try again when I get home this afternoon. I'm off to NYC tomorrow morning for 24 hours. I have a dinner....with some heavy hitters. I also am taking some photos on Sunday. Either way, I know you would agree. First of all, it will be FUN. Second of all, I look GOOD.

Ha ha.

Read 3 studies on Pristiq and unfortunately I can't qualify given one of my meds. Or at least I would be in a higher risk category for developing this weird syndrome where you are worse off when you stop taking it. I had never heard of this but apparently pretty common and the reason (one of three) it was not approved in Europe.

However, I think with some awareness I can conquer and be deliberate about it.

More soon.