Everyday Life by Spidere
January 20th, 2009 9:33 PM / Location: 38.889763,-77.01888
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zer0gee
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Rin Brooker
5
Fernando Conrads
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susy derkins
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anna one
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Lincøln
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Dax Tran-Caffee
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Minch
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saille is planting praxis
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miss understanding
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Kyle Westwood
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Eidhnean entwines
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Morte
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Burn Unit
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artmouse
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I cannot express how happy I am to see you back to tasking. You are not allowed to leave us again. Don't make me come out there.
I don't know, zer0gee--I might well leave if you don't come out here, so to be safe, you should probably come visit... ;)
:) I'm glad to be back.
Meaning. Flitworth. Packed subway. All good.
I should have thought of you there when watching it on TV, but I didn't :(
DC's clearly been gone from the SF0 consciousness recently--my apologies for that, susy. Glad you liked it, though!
Also, FYI, apparently 60% of Americans watched or listened to the inauguration live (and, I realize, about 1% of all Americans were in DC for it, half of them on the National Mall). You've now got me wondering about other nations' percentages.
wow. We got delayed at the metro and then turned away at the Mall security because of the sheer number of people already in, and wandered with the crowds outside. I was soooooo hoping someone else within traveling distance would be there, and task this somehow. (I'm in the process of typing it up as Something Very Good, since we were stuck at various streetcorners and only able to listen.) This makes me so very happy :)
you only get two points out of EXTREME JEALOUSY!
and anyway, now you have a really nice even 60 points on this task :D
I've been thinking about doing this task for a while. Heck, about my life and my relationship with SF0, too. About how I could do something with my day that was not work, was not school, and yet was meaningful enough to post. It's actually caused something of an internal struggle, trying to figure out what I should be doing with my life and how I should be spending my time.
This felt like something meaningful. The day was an adventure--up after two hours of sleep, travel in the cold with good friends, sharing the experience with a crowd of enthusiastic people...it was pretty amazing, really. Worth the lost sleep, and then some.
And, perhaps most importantly, I'm trying to take the call to action seriously. I spent the last three hours researching local nonprofit groups involved with early childhood development programs, and contacted several, to try to learn more about the area, and to volunteer my time to the programs. I intend to move in the direction of program accountability and being able to give convincing evidence of the results being achieved, in the style of givewell.net. I finally feel like I'm moving again, in a direction I'm proud of and want to continue.
It was a good day.