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[pegkerr]

What will you be doing today for the national day of service?

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[johnridley.livejournal.com]

1040 electronic filing just started up, I'm at work. Heck, I was working yesterday. Does anyone (besides government/school employees) actually get today off to go do anything?

We'll do our share through the year, but not today.

[thenines.livejournal.com]

Taking preliminary steps (and blogging about) my new service project. I'm working with a small team of volunteers to organize a <http://www.learnapaloozadc.com>Learnapalooza festival in NYC this summer.

[skg.livejournal.com]

I live in NYC and I'm sure I can teach something...

[thenines.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!

There's a small team of people who will begin the planning in early April. Can I snag your contact info and contact you once we have some solid information? (We can connect less publicly via gmail, if you like -- my handle's expetesso.)

[thenines.livejournal.com]

Here is my post about the project and how I learned about it, in case you're interested. :o)

[maribou]

Well, *right now* there is a baited kitty trap attempting to catch one of the new strays outdoors. Not sure if that counts or not, but since I will then be looking after a wild cat for several days until it recovers from altering ... I'll certainly be *serving*. Just, not, you know people.

There's a food drive at work I'm planning to participate in as well.

But, like many, I work a full day today.

[maribou]

Er, full day being noon-8pm. I would never leave a trap set and then leave my house....

[tanithk.livejournal.com]

Attending my Uncle's funeral. Reminiscing with my Aunt and cousins.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

I bundled together a huge bag of blankets for the downtown homeless shelter. I'm not sure that counts, though.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

If it decreases world suck, of course it counts!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I'm going to post in my LJ asking people to donate to the Carl Brandon Society's Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund (http://www.carlbrandon.org/butlerscholarship/index.html).

I'm going to try to get caught up on my ongoing volunteer work for the Clarion West writers' workshop (http://www.clarionwest.org/), and urge writers who are ready for the workshop to apply before March 1 (before February 1 to get a discount of $100 on tuition).

This morning, when the radio mentioned the national day of service, I thought about your continuing quest to make things suck less, and I grinned.

[skg.livejournal.com]

Working, sadly.

[sraun]

I'm one of the people working today. :-(

Probably 90% of the people in my building have the day off. The business is officially closed except for 'essential services' - basically, this means everyone except the bottom-level support staff people has the day off. There are eight people on-site for IT today (out of at least a couple of hundred), and a bunch more on-call.

[corinnethewise.livejournal.com]

I gathering up a bunch of old clothes and old housewares stuff that we got replaced with wedding presents and giving it to goodwill. However, I think they are getting sent with Dan, because I think I might have Strep throat. Infecting others is probably not a good way to spend the day of service. :(

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

Working, like too many people. After work, I'll probably go home and join the ACLU, because I'm certainly not going to be awake enough to do anything else to decrease worldsuck.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I live in England. But I figure 17 years of teaching high school in Colorado and nine years of teaching secondary school and sixth-form college here in England should count for some sort of service to society. ;)

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

I got the preliminary website for the shire online, does that count?

[airemay.livejournal.com]

I will be researching opportunities to volunteer on a long term basis.

[irielle.livejournal.com]

I live out in the country without a driver's license, so today I simply went out for some driving instruction, drove to a town I've never driven before, and drove on a roundabout. Driving test is January 29th, and hopefully I can pass it so I can actually get out to towns where I can volunteer.

[cryptaknight.livejournal.com]

Working :(. But I'm putting on an event for kids in my bookstore, with activities in honor of MLK, and handing out copies of the I Have A Dream speech.

[pameladean]

I figure I'll wait and do something when everybody else isn't. I don't really like mass movements very much.

P.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I'm preparing to take on the role of committee chair for the Development Committee at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.

K.