Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Wednesday Nights

This place is insane on Wednesday nights. I actually will miss this (sort of) now that I won't be here in the evenings!

So far we have seen:
I. A new face in the homeless pantheon. Hopefully she'll get herself together; she looks a little too clean to be hanging around with these guys. But she's clearly homeless: asking about the shelter, no proof of address/temp "computer user" card from the next town over, etc.

II. An old face in the homeless pantheon. But he's taking a class of some kind!! Hurrah hurrah. He needed to use the computer to type an outline up for an assignment.

III. The reappearance of the Dreaded [City] Gangs. A just threw out some guys who (in his words) were "posturing" and preparing to fight. Great. Next job we fill is security...for the nights when A's not here! Of course, T knows all these kids from subbing at the high school. And, darn, I missed it all, back here in Catalog-Land.
Last night should have been Wednesday. It was voter-registration-for-procrastinators. People from Canada, people whose parents are naturalized citizens so why can't they themselves vote?, and people who moved across the county but don't have any ID with their birthdate on it. And now that the registration process is done, we get to start hearing from the politicians themselves. Whee.