The only unjumbled thought I've had lately is that I've neglected this blog a bit recently because I have a new love. My new campaign website is up and running and I've been setting up comment capabilities, hovering over the logs to see how many hits it gets. I think that, at this rate, by the time the election rolls around, it will have gotten more hits than my blog has in it's lifetime so far.
(To be fair, the campaign website has a built in audience and I'm sending out tens of thousands of mailers with the URL on it.)
Jumbled thought #1. One of my campaign volunteers, the kind of volunteer that comes over to my house to help stuff envelopes and read volumes about how to report campaign contributions, just got a new job. She had time to work with me because she was looking for work. She told me that she put a volunteer job I had given her eight years ago on her resume because it boosted her claim to have experience serving diverse groups. She sent this resume to highly regarded institution of higher learning (she's an administrator). She subsequently got a job there. While I'm sad to see her go from my campaign, I'm delighted something I set up years ago maybe helped someone get a job now.
Jumbled thoughts #2 and #3 (give or take). As I ate my standard "gee-I'm-under-a-lot-of-stress" supper of Ben and Jerry's Frozen Yogurt the other day, I realized that I often have one food that I associate with stressful times. These foods change over time. For instance, when I was in fifth grade and reading Gone with the Wind during a blizzard, my mother introduced me to the joys of putting applesauce and cottage cheese in the same bowl. I ate that mix as a snack for the next year or two. In college, I ate stove-popped popcorn and drank bottles of Diet Coke for Sunday night supper without fail for a couple years. When I was applying to grad school, I ate English muffins every morning without fail till I stopped them to go on the South Beach diet. Now, during campaigning, it is frozen yogurt. Each pint has about 800 calories. Usually, I eat half that, or maybe three quarters. Last night was so cold, that I had to take a hot shower after eating the frozen yogurt for supper. The impending arrival of fall, with it's cold nights, may soon force me to find a more suitable, easy comfort food.
Well, off to tend my other site. If you want to see it, leave a comment and I'll send you an email.
