Speaking of the 5:07 club....

TUESDAY, LATER

(for those of you not "in the know," a few friends and I would meet up on Fridays after work at the marvelous and wondrous Konak's Bar in Andersonville, Chicago on Clark Street (hello, Ozgur!). It's called the 5:07 club because we would try to see who could get there as close to 5:07 pm as possible. I would often win because I worked at a Jewish social justice agency and thus, got off early on fridays, but most of the others worked in the Uptown Hood and got there fast as well. Mr Tom Walsh, the man who has taken my position as Advocacy Director at JCUA, is the convener of the 5:07 club).

I would be remiss if I didn't mention the EXTREME amount of organizing talk and training that's being thrown at me lately. Ah, SWOT analysis. Oh, participatory assessment. Of course, 1 on 1's and House meetings.

Shannon, my god, you would laugh silly at me.

These are tools utilized by the organizing community and apparently Peace Corps members.

Many aspects of this stuff I frankly .... well, I just.... I haven't been all that fond of, really. Sometimes I'd rather do it myself.

Oh, that is a huuuuuuuge no no here.

So Shannon, Tom, ONE people at large, it may amuse you to know that I am going to become a good organizer. Maybe, Possibly.

Maybe I'll like it more in Romanian?

One more thing - Ms. Shannon, the lovely and amazingly talented woman currently in school for interior design, etc., and I had a running debate on color schemes.

I believed that orange and purple were two colors that worked well together.

She strongly disagreed.

Moldovans... agree with me. It's a scheme I see used frequently. I open it up to the group for comment, and will try to take pictures to illustrate the frumousa (beauty).