Well my on-line hours have been sharply curtailed as of late -- which hasn't really been a bad thing as it turns out.    I find that it feels rather good to be too busy to spend too much time reading and blogging.  Though I certainly did enjoy immersing myself in it for a time.  The next couple of months will be crazy busy but I expect at some point I will re-engage in the political reading and commentary that I was doing. 

So what am I busy with?  Well, as I think I may have alluded to previously, I am serving as Campaign Manager for a friend and neighbor who is running for city council in November.  No, I haven't really done anything like this before but I am finding I have pretty good instincts and DR [the candidate] and I have a good rapport and I feel good about him as a future councilperson.  He is is a long-time resident of our town and has been very active in the community though has never held office before and is running against a well-liked incumbent.   We are not expecting a cake-walk though we both think he has a good chance.   Our strategy right now is just to get him out and meeting people, introducing himself and listening to what folks in our ward have to say.  We'll probably start knocking on doors this weekend.

Speaking of this weekend, I am organizing a booth about cohousing at a local folk festival on Sunday.  I have to create a display and then it'll be the usual 10 hours from set-up, through chatting with folks, to tear down.  The aim is to educate people about cohousing in general and the cohousing community I am a member of in particular.  With the hope of finidng some potential members, of course.  And Saturday... 2 hour orientation at my son's cooperative nursery school and 2 hour beginning-of-school cleanup.  And then we rush off to meet with our architect .

Between now and then I have 3 mtgs [for the family resource center, nursery school fundraising committee, and with DR], and a funeral. [The elderly mother of an uncle I adore.]   Additionally I am helping a friend edit the english portion of a Korean-English dictionary [we are getting paid for that, yay!], and organizing the second annual preschool education fair for our community and need to get out invites to over 3 dozen local schools this week.  And, oh maude, I just remembered I still haven't typed and distributed the minutes to our last cohousing membership mtg. 

This sounds ridiculous I know.  Especially in light of the fact that it is [just about] all voluntary.  The only think I absolutely am obligated to do is tend to TLG and our home life.  And I keep finding myself up to my [in need of a nice shaping] bushy eyebrows in "to-do's."  Most of it is fun.  I just wish it didn't seem to pile up all at once.   As the anxiety looms I think I will tape to my computer monitor a little adage I coined for myself pre-mamahood, back when I was drowning in professional responsibilities: "Action is the antidote to fear."

'til next time luv pups...

10:37:15 PM