New Goals
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Living in SOMA, the only place to park my car is the ghetto alleyway under the freeway, where homeless people live.I was rushing out to run errands and search for jobs the other day, when I noticed the regular homeless guy that lives there. He wasn't looking all sick and disheveled like you imagine a typical homeless guy to look. He wasn't crazy or drunk or missing any teeth. This dude was lying snug in his sleeping bag, under the warm sunny patch of the alleyway, head propped on a backpack, happily reading the newspaper.
(Thought process that follows, as I run to my car:)To Mr Homeless Guy: make some room, you're gonna have company.
I am stressed because I need to find work.
And why do I need to find work? --> So I can pay my bills.
If I don't pay my bills? --> I'm homeless --> I lie in bed/sun all morning, reading today's paper.
Me? Hungover?
Monday, November 15, 2010
I was sick for a day last week... sore throat, really sleepy.Shannon called that day to say hi. She told me the cell phone I gave her died after she dropped it off a balcony and exploded it into a million pieces. I told her I ruined the 3-tiered chocolate fountain at a party by spiking it with Kahlua (which apparently causes molten chocolate to clump up, clog the pump, and solidify all over the fountain... oops)
After about twenty minutes, Shannon had to get off the phone, but not before one last question.
Shannon: Wait a sec.Sigh... other people get sympathy for sore throats.
Me: What?
Shannon: Why are you hungover on a weekday?
Me: [confused] Huh?
Shannon: You're hungover on a weekday. What did you do?
Me: Um. I'm sick.
Shannon: You shouldn't drink if you're sick...
Me: I didn't drink! I'm actually sick!
WE WON!
Thursday, November 04, 2010
I went to the party at the Public House where Arnold and George Schultz gave their victory speeches. They talked about defeating Texas on Monday in the Worlds Series (yay SF!), and then defeating them again on Tuesday in the election. There was lots of cheering.Some facts:
- No on 23 won by a vote of 61% t0 39%, a huge margin
- More people voted on Prop23 than voted in any of the candidate races, including senator and governor
- In the 6 weeks before the election, we (Sierra Club's 10 organizers and the volunteers we were able to recruit) made over 300,000 dials and talked to 63,000 people about Prop23 over the phone.
Man, that's going on my resume.
