Community Service and other stuff, slightly off

Saturday afternoon I went to a grass roots training thing for the howard dean campaign. I found it incredibly useless. I stuck around mostly because I emphatically support the cause. See, loud and irrelevant interjections. See also no concrete suggestions for actions one can take (mostly it was “here’s the overall campaign strategy, some dynamics of primaries and political wrangling, and we’ll give you the details of what to do later”. I probably would have found the theory more interesting if they’d managed greater coherence and rapidity in their delivery). Saw (who came a few minutes late and left more than an hour before the windbags finished their noisemaking. I so think he had the right idea) , , and .

Went home afterwards, drove ‘s car over to the city (with simon) for dinner at Axum with Ro, Simon, Shannon and friends. Sadly I was the one in the outer 40. I sat next to Ro and Simon, with the other people on their other side. I like Ro and Simon, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t need to go the city to hang with them. And the spatial arrangement and ambient noise made it difficult for me to chat with anyone else. <sigh>

Afterwards, the party reassembled at a bar right next door. I walked to bart and went home. Then yesterday was a total clinic day. Emergency advisory meeting at 11 and medicing until 9 or so. No dinner afterwards. Bleh. I also only saw 4 clients (not counting giving results). A wart treatment and three routine screens.

Sidenote: It is both kinda flattering and rather embarrassing when clients get a boner during the exam. Especially since one of the clinic founders said he’s gets a similar reaction maybe once a year. Happens at least once most evenings for me. I say something to the effect of “that’s okay, it happens, don’t worry about it. If you’d like a chance to compose yourself, we can get back to this later.” They generally just want to go ahead, but calm down after that.

Overall a somewhat frustrating weekend, but the endorphins (and energy drain) from saturday morning seem to have served me in good stead for the rest of the weekend.