Go ahead, make my day...
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geminigirlOne of the cooler things about working where I do (geographically, not professionally) is getting to do stuff like I did this morning.
October 15th is Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and we're one of the local organizations doing a great deal of work on it. So this morning, S. my boss comes in and asks me if I want to go to the Latino AIDS Proclamation thing with her. I figure, it's probably something local governement related, and tell her sure, I'll go.
So it's time to leave and we all start to get together, and get downstairs and then it's like "Oh, well we have to take the train." Turns out we're not going to some proclamation thing (which will be next week) but we're going up to Capitol Hill, to a thing about Latino AIDS Awareness Day-a panel discussion and press conference. Oh great, thanks for the warning, I might have dressed a bit nicer if I knew we were going to the Hill. :)
It was fun. One of the presenters is an alumnae of the same School of Social Welfare that I went to-she graduated about 20 years before I did, and I still had some of the same professors.
I miss doing policy work. I don't think I'd want to do all policy work, but if I could find something that gave me a good balance of direct client contact and policy work, I'd be really happy. I really miss the policy development and advocacy process though-I don't get enough of that right now.
And in other excitment...I'm not one who gets overly freaked out about bugs. Most of the time, I just ignore them. But this morning, as I sat at my desk, getting ready to eat my bagel, a large brown bug-at least 4 inches long wanders right in through the door of my office, antennae waving, and squirrelling around. I shriek. I'm not usually that way. But the size of this one just made me go "ick." I try to ignore it, hoping that it will go away, but when it wanders even further into my office, even though it's walking away from me, I decide I can't handle it. I go down to the only other person here, and tell him about this gigantic gross four inch (at least-it may have been bigger) roach that has wandered into my office, and could he do something about it. Make the man kill the bug. I'm just grossed out, at that point and feeling the need to not be in the room...still, even writing about it makes me squirmy.
October 15th is Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and we're one of the local organizations doing a great deal of work on it. So this morning, S. my boss comes in and asks me if I want to go to the Latino AIDS Proclamation thing with her. I figure, it's probably something local governement related, and tell her sure, I'll go.
So it's time to leave and we all start to get together, and get downstairs and then it's like "Oh, well we have to take the train." Turns out we're not going to some proclamation thing (which will be next week) but we're going up to Capitol Hill, to a thing about Latino AIDS Awareness Day-a panel discussion and press conference. Oh great, thanks for the warning, I might have dressed a bit nicer if I knew we were going to the Hill. :)
It was fun. One of the presenters is an alumnae of the same School of Social Welfare that I went to-she graduated about 20 years before I did, and I still had some of the same professors.
I miss doing policy work. I don't think I'd want to do all policy work, but if I could find something that gave me a good balance of direct client contact and policy work, I'd be really happy. I really miss the policy development and advocacy process though-I don't get enough of that right now.
And in other excitment...I'm not one who gets overly freaked out about bugs. Most of the time, I just ignore them. But this morning, as I sat at my desk, getting ready to eat my bagel, a large brown bug-at least 4 inches long wanders right in through the door of my office, antennae waving, and squirrelling around. I shriek. I'm not usually that way. But the size of this one just made me go "ick." I try to ignore it, hoping that it will go away, but when it wanders even further into my office, even though it's walking away from me, I decide I can't handle it. I go down to the only other person here, and tell him about this gigantic gross four inch (at least-it may have been bigger) roach that has wandered into my office, and could he do something about it. Make the man kill the bug. I'm just grossed out, at that point and feeling the need to not be in the room...still, even writing about it makes me squirmy.
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Date: 2003-09-16 12:26 pm (UTC)I don't blame you for getting someone else to do it!
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Date: 2003-09-16 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-16 12:42 pm (UTC)When I was in grad school, I used to keep a change of clothes in my office, just in case I had to do something that required professional dress on a day I came in in jeans or something...