thanks for your patience!

Hey folks...

   still no pics... maybe someday?! 

The update....

-I don't work in the activity center anymore (and hoorah, that means no more getting in trouble for praying silently).  I am at this point a caregiver for Tom, who is passing away.  It is beautiful, scary, amazing, sad, joyful, and peaceful to spend days tending to Tom and others in the house.  This week I started my new schedule (which I seem to get every week... bonus points to L'arche for flexibility).  I start at 7:30am, which means I get up at 5:30am... but I think I will adjust quickly.  It feels so nice to be off work before dark.

-I'm heading to a bluegrass jam tonight, hoorah for that as well! 

-Last weekend my housemates and I volunteered at the AIDS walk.  A few of us were stationed at closed streets giving directions to the drivers so they could get around the course.  It was certainly shocking how negatively people reacted about traffic being changed for a few hours.  It really made me want to laugh when drivers would cuss at us because they were angry... I honestly wanted to laugh out loud for how obscene it was that people were so angry about an AIDS fundraiser.  Also interesting, I was volunteering alongside a girl who recently moved to Seattle as well.  She said she was going to take an Americorps position, but it was not possible to live on $950 a month... I was a little shocked, because I live on $650, and I feel spoiled... everything is relative, I suppose. 

-Last weekend I found a bike at goodwill, another source of excitement :)

-This weekend Petey and I will have adventuresome camping somewhere outside the city (not sure where yet... suggestions?), and I'm looking forward to that. 

-am a bit sleepy at the moment... perhaps I'll write more soon.

 

love!

megsy

 

grateful list

-bus time

-the sun when it peeks through

-letters, cards, and the postal system in general

-water

-mandolin pickin' that tickles my belly