I've joined Weight Watchers ( Read more... )

So, knocking on strangers' doors and trying to convince them to give me money is not, apparently, either what I want to do or what I am able to do in a job.  Well, okay.  Now I just have to find, you know, a job ( Read more... )

So this time around, my civic duty consisted of sitting in a waiting room for two days.  I gotta say I was impressed; I know I wouldn't want to be in charge of 300 people stuck in a room.

I start canvassing on Thursday. In the meantime, I sleep.  And make jewelry.

Just got done presenting my research proposal to the class. A couple of my classmates gave me some good suggestions for improving my proposal, and the prof was excited about it. She even said that people would be more than willing to fund a project that might uncover a way to defossilize interlanguage. She even said that I don't have to be an ( Read more... )

Next on my murder-list is Bob, the guy at the National Service Trust who just told me that I *can't* cancel the $1000 award. I'll have to keep it and lose the second $4725 award ( Read more... )

I wish to locate the AmeriCorps official who is responsible for training the program directors on the education award. I wish to give them pain and bodily harm which break down their spirit until they willingly give me $1000 ( Read more... )

Seattle is, incidentally, made of hills. And every goddamn house in it has at least a flight of stairs to the front door. Boy howdy am I going to get fit from canvassing ( Read more... )

The Democrats hired me to do campaign work. They were double-plus impressed by my AmeriCorps experience and all the crazy leadership thingies I did this year ( Read more... )

I completed my last day of AmeriCorps on Friday. It was much less emotional than last year; I feel closer to many fewer students this time. I might get choked up later on, or not. We'll see. In the meantime, I am enjoying being DONE. No more pep speeches. No more trying to cover the ass of the AmeriCorps program AND the school district AND the ( Read more... )

This evening chased the to-do list away. Quieted it down, maybe. Stopped all the unfinished and unstarted tasks from bumping their noses agaist the glass of my psyche, sent them to roost somewhere so I could breathe easy for once. It's usually so hard for me to let go of them ( Read more... )