Energy to do things!

Update from Peesh in the Nook/Astrodome.

Just wanted to share some cool feelings about Keith McHenry coming to stay at Slade and his presentation about Food not Bombs. It was pretty mind-blowing, and I have all kinds of energy to do things like walk with a group of women to our senator's offices and tell them how much we don't like the idea of cutting Title X funding.

Some of that energy also went into relocating a lot of hooks out of closets to the outside of rooms on the third floor. I love dismantling/building things, especially when I can make something that is not very useful into something very useful! I'm using the heck out of that hook by the door now.

As part of the hook moving parade, us third-floordians had a hall decorating and cleaning party which resulted in some pretty spooky lighting and a Tea-station across from the bathroom. My next move is to make a shelf for all the body-cleaning products in the shower room, but one thing at a time. Maybe I should do something schooly, but I really am into these home improvements right now.

Other notes:

• Hedonism day is coming up
  
• Compost tumbler should be here soon
  
• Talking to Chris about fixing the solar panels on the greenhouse
  
• Fridge and the Spin$ show on Friday!

i'm walkin' on sunshine!

INSTANT DEL PIZZA UPDATE:

It's a balmy FORTY FIVE degrees here in Burlington, and let me tell ya, it feels like August. The great thing about living in the tundra is that even a mere thirteen degrees above freezing feels like fifty.

Inspired and thoroughly flipped out by the weather, Peesh and I walked home this afternoon in t-shirts, yelling the whole time. We ambled up to Slade only to find our favorite dread head, Syd, swingin' away under Mother tree. We screamed a little about passive solar block parties, whatever that means, and flung open the living room windows praising the gods of feelin' good. Then Syd biked away to class for the first time on a fixie.

Me and Peeshie proceeded to get super hyped on manual labor and shoveled some snow out of inconvenient places then checked out the greenhouse. That baby really needs our help. We have more little plastic planters than Gardener's Supply, and they're practically all broken. WHY? Anyhow, we were thinking that it would be fun, cool AND productive to have a workday/potluck in which we invite interested parties to come help us clean out the greenhouse and give them plastic planters and maybe a few brewskies in return. It would be great! Play a little music, do a little work, eat a little food, what could be better?

In other news: I sustained two more oven burns last night. I'm starting to look really cool and tough.

captain we're drowning!

FUN THINGS TO DO IN BURLINGTON:
1. visit shelburne farms
2. go to city market ten times a day
3. check out manhattan house
4. go to junktiques
5. explore common ground
6. sample the shit out of dakin farm
7. go to the magic hat factory
9. find birdman
10. drink coffee in one of our three thousand coffee shops
11. kait ;)

FUN UPCOMING EVENTS:
1. open mic! tonight! sign up at 8:30!
2. fridge and the spins & slopsters play slade 2/25!
3. poetry night at 43 south williams. thursday night at nine
4. kait & harrison get hitched! open bar!

in other news: the house is falling apart. the kitchen ceiling started leaking this morning, so that's great.
in other other news: babe crew is serving up breakfast for dinner. come hungry, leave happy.