hanging out with Obama

• current

the only organized activity i have in my life is the time i spend hanging out with obama. last week my dad and i made some phone calls for the campaign at HQ on monroe st. we cold called people and asked them who they were supporting for prez, and then tried to convince them to support mr O. of the 60 calls i made that night, only about 12 people picked up and only 4 of them weren't nuts.

i liked bothering people so much that i went and did it again on saturday and again this wednesday. on wednesday i brought PhD Patrick with me to keep that mac connection live (we graduated together). on saturday i also went door to door registering people to vote. i signed 8 people up, including one former felon who thought he would never be able to vote again.

the (volunteer) work is actually pleasant- it reminds me of my days recruiting and running people for experiments in the psych lab. no matter how funny they respond, i'm just keep plugging along.

so tomorrow morning i am gonna wake up and help Obama out some more.

• listening

1 in 3 things that thefader.com posts
plus a lot of Public Radio International :Social Entrepreneurship
would be thrilled to find some more schtuff

• reading

still Feingold.
plus theselby.com
also some brookings.edu

• watching

lost and for the first time,
arrested development.
and it's football season, so that's a plus.

• news

really what is there to say here? no news is good news.
i'm getting my resume ready and then we'll talk

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It's a Midwest Thang

• current

In Madison settling into my apartment and domestic life in general after spending a long week at the cabin and in the Twin Cities.

• listening

ratatat's new LP3
diplo's SANTO mixtape
tricky's new knowle west boy
plus spanish/and public radio podcasts

• reading

a russ feingold biography. i think this is the first biography i have read in years ...
the writing is pretty bad but feingold is interesting enough to make it happen. he was a Rhodes scholar. wish i was cool enough to be one too.

• watching

can't wait to watch the Brothers Solomon again with my brothers. it was pretty HILARIOUS

• news

spend some time at the cabin 2 weeks ago with nis and scott. it was perfect and relaxing


then i spent some time in saint paul catching up with EVERYBODY: nis & emma, paul & marina, scott & sonia, will, wes, rebecca, rachel, kristina, brooke, aaron, majid oh yeah and said goodbye to grace before she left.

now i am back in madison with the fam, living the glamorous life.

• end

movies with dad tomorrow. nick's birthday on saturday. i might get deputized to register voters on saturday morning. who knows what else is coming around the corner?