Something Completely Different

Politics is on the brain- and on the blogs- a lot these days. Perhaps one day community organizers will be given their own holiday, oh! or parade, everyone should get a parade, or perhaps simply be paid enough so as not to be forced to debate the merits of making a student loan payment vs. visiting critically ill family members more than once per year. This requires community members to support community organizations financially so they can support their community organizers, which is not an easy thing for anyone to do during an election year or economic downturn.

Anyhow, there is more going on in my life than politics, even if I do have to force myself to ask, "Self. What have you done today that is personally productive or makes you feel human?"

I am:

• Reading books, mostly fiction, like it is going out of style. Wait, it IS out of style to read books in this country... Lady Friend says I am still suffering from "bed full of books syndrome."
• Connecting back with friends scattered hither and yon.
• Applying for a second job
• Thinking about, talking to others, and researching ways to more actively build community here in Kansas City
• Making a braided rag rug. The size of this rug will be determined by the length and severity of the winter
• Planning a day when I go to sleep when I am tired, not when the work is finished or after the late news, and waking when I wake, not when the alarm rings or after rolling over to cram in an extra few hours to make up for future lost time.
• Thinking about going back to school in a couple of years for another degree (social work? education? higher ed admin?). Thinking about how to do this without amassing any more student loan debt.
• Looking at homes with Lady Friend and imagining all the blissful ways I want to be a working home-maker