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Got up at 4:30 this morning to make it a SHARE food distribution site where we spent the morning trying to register the folks collecting and distributing food. It was sort of a bust, in that most everybody was already registered, but it wasn't as frustrating a bust as, say, last Saturday, which I spent in a coffee shop with no customers in it, maybe because we were able to sign up several volunteers, maybe because at least something productive was going on today while we were there, maybe because we made some good contacts with churches and with a guy who can provide better info about the legal wrinkles of regaining your civil right to vote after a felony conviction in Florida than out shamefully uninformed supervisors...And it's nice to have gotten our hours for the day out of the way, making this the closest I've had to having a Saturday off since I got here.
There was a difficult couple days this week, mostly borne out of the feeling of fighting a several-front war in dealing with conflicts involving the work I'm doing, the people I'm doing it with, friends, people who used to be more than friends, family, and such. But now I'm in a good, if very, very tired place. Thursday the five of us in the house resolved our several-day subtext-laden spate of taking each others' things, and were able to talk some about why the boys and the girls experienced it so differently. And we got out of the house together to have fun, which was maybe as important.
The greatest challenge remaining today is cooking a vegetable stir-fry everyone will eat. First, I think I'll shoot for a couple hours of sleep.
There was a difficult couple days this week, mostly borne out of the feeling of fighting a several-front war in dealing with conflicts involving the work I'm doing, the people I'm doing it with, friends, people who used to be more than friends, family, and such. But now I'm in a good, if very, very tired place. Thursday the five of us in the house resolved our several-day subtext-laden spate of taking each others' things, and were able to talk some about why the boys and the girls experienced it so differently. And we got out of the house together to have fun, which was maybe as important.
The greatest challenge remaining today is cooking a vegetable stir-fry everyone will eat. First, I think I'll shoot for a couple hours of sleep.