Lets list my involvements:
Lambda (My WoW guild) and associated people
Second Unitarian, including the green sanctuary committee, young adult group and queer group.
Engineers without borders – nascent and growing involvement
Running for a position on the interim council of GAO’s new union
Chicago Conservation Corps – trying, but it’s working out poorly
Foresight design initiative volunteer and attendee (green drinks people)
board gaming.
That’s alot, right?
It all feels so fluffy, and I still feel underinvolved. I seriously want to live in an intentional community. But not one of the “run away to previously undeveloped land, live a impoverished/technologically primitive lifestyle and shun contact with the outside world” sorts of intentional communities. I’d actually like to reside in a center for demonstration of clean/green/sustainable technologies, welcoming outside visitors, engagements of varying length, and still focusing on creating a community all the while, embedded in an urban fabric. That pretty much sounds like something that I’d have to create, because I don’t think I’m going to find it, and I don’t think there are people aching to market such a development to middling income 30-somethings.