a) Toddlers are hilarious.  Lando's biggest thrill when I visited was to have me sit in the armchair, then he would go to the other end of the room, start shrieking, and run run run run to throw himself onto my lap. I flipped him upside down, then, of course, which only made the game better.  And then he'd do it all again. And again.  And again ( Read more... )

I have almost 100 spam users to delete from the alumni board, even though they weren't ever activated ( Read more... )

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Today was pretty blah. I spent most of the latter portion of the evening wallowing in self-pity and getting a pep talk from my mother. I spent the morning cleaning the kitchen, so at least I can feel virtuous about somethingStill no real job leads. I sent resumes anyhow. I am facing the fact that I will probably have to take one of those ( Read more... )

Another update from Writely at the office...

Yesterday was intense. I am still in recovery.

To make it short and less incriminating, a timeline:

midnight: get a call from NGO contact - he needs flyers for a presentation at the UN at 6pm

4:30am: wake up and don't really get back to sleep

6am: get up and get ready to go to Training

7:30am: arrive ( Read more... )

I had forgotten how much delight is to be had from long talks with friends over the phone, in this case discussing religion and intuition, love and life. Sometimes it amazes me that I have the friends that I do. I feel privileged. It was a good way to spend an evening, and to make matters better, there will be paying work from that call, too. ( Read more... )

I had a great week! I'm not coherent enough to really get into all of the coolness in prose, so I'll make this post in list form.
For those unaware, I spent most of this week at the Conference for the Network of Spiritual Progressives in Washington, DC. Then this weekend was spent largely in transit, and then a few hours at ebess & purvision's wedding in ( Read more... )

Dateline New York City, April 3, 2:45 AM - a cab rolls down Fifth Avenue in the Museum district carrying an exhausted Alumni volunteer who has just spent six hours cutting cardstock, folding letters, stuffing and labeling envelopes. The cabbie, an enthusiastic Senegalese man, starts the ride ominously enough, complaining about getting egged on his ( Read more... )

So, last week I had a great time driving down to King of Prussia, PA with Michelle. I had the opportunity to visit with lots of fantastic folks down near Philly, as well as doing some fun work of my own while Michelle was at her conference ( Read more... )

It seems like I've been awake forever. Last night, Jaye and Lisa met me for drinks to toast my birthday. We ended up watching the Olympic closing ceremonies in the pub, then heading off for Greek pastries. I made the tactical error of having Greek coffee at 11:30 pm. Oops!
So as I was staring at the ceiling at 4am, thinking, I have to be ( Read more... )