{"id":574,"date":"2003-10-27T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=574"},"modified":"2003-10-27T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T15:28:00","slug":"community-service-and-other-stuff-slightly-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Community Service and other stuff, slightly off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;here&#8217;s the overall campaign strategy, some dynamics of primaries and political wrangling, and we&#8217;ll give you the details of what to do later&#8221;.  I probably would have found the theory more interesting if they&#8217;d managed greater coherence and rapidity in their delivery).  Saw <lj user=xaoz> (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) <lj user=radi0actv>, <lj user=vintagebanana>, and <lj user=thatboysf>.  <\/p>\n<p>Went home afterwards, drove <lj user=tardis>&#8216;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&#8217;t get me wrong, but I don&#8217;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.  &lt;sigh&gt;<\/p>\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s gets a similar reaction maybe once a year.  Happens at least once most evenings for me.  I say something to the effect of &#8220;that&#8217;s okay, it happens, don&#8217;t worry about it.  If you&#8217;d like a chance to compose yourself, we can get back to this later.&#8221;  They generally just want to go ahead, but calm down after that.   <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;here&#8217;s the overall campaign strategy, some dynamics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Community Service and other stuff, slightly off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}