So, after almost two months of not working, I now have four jobs lined up:
1) Temp place: Northwest Administrators
2) Retail store: Fireworks
3) Vegetarian Hot Dog Shop: Cyber Dogs
4) Hotel: New Hyatt
The first one is pretty lame. And the last two haven't started yet. But I really like the middle two places as a customer, and the hyatt has potential to be cool. I have no idea what sort of schedule I may end up having, but, yay, jobs!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Obama!
So Election Day, after I voted, I went to Obama's Seattle HQ to campaign. I figured as long as I wasn't doing anything at home, I might as well be encouraging people to vote. I didn't really knowing what I was getting into. It was packed. I ended up making calls for about an hour, on an automated system that did the calling for you. We were calling Washingtonians, which seemed silly to me, but the governor race was close here, so I think it was largely to help her and other local democrats. And the point was to encourage people to vote, to help them find out where to go, and to get them a ride if they needed one.
I mostly got machines, and then about an equal number of people who had already voted and were happy to hear from me and people who had already voted and were not happy to hear from me. Two whole people hadn't voted yet, but knew what they were doing. I ended the calls when I calls when I got the "I wish you people would stop calling" comment - and she had voted for Obama! But, the room was full of people calling on their cell phones, so I'm sure many, many more people were reached that day, so some people must have been affected by the calls.
Then I was recruited to wave signs. There were 2-8 of us while I was out there, about 3 hours. That was a really positive experience. Lots of honking, cheering, waving, peace signs. A couple fingers, and some negative shouting, but not much. The best was when school buses drove by and the kids would cheer.
On the walk back home I walked over a highway and ran into more sign wavers. I stayed with them a few minutes, as they had an awesome location. Lots more cars.
Then I ran home for dinner, and then to meet Molly downtown. We had a list of places to go to watch the returns, and we walked all over town trying to find a place that wasn't completely packed. All over town. We finally found a smaller place, but it's a comedian hangout and they turned off the TV and started talking on stage, so we left. The place also didn't serve food, and we were starving. We caught a cab to Molly's, and as we were getting out I heard the cab's radio say that it looked like Obama won. Joy, but frustration. We were looking forward to the suspense. We ran in a shop and bought some food and the checker said it was "a good day." We smiled and ran to Molly's apartment to bust out the computer and TV. We got to see most of McCain's concession, and then Obama's speech, while screaming and yelling. Soon we realized there was commotion on the streets, so we left to join it.
Honking, cheering, high fives, happiness. It was so awesome. We walked to Pike Place Market, and found a huge crowd of people gathered. More of the same joy. Then we walked up to Broadway, where we were sure there would be more people, and there were. Fireworks, drinking in the streets, cheering, hugging, singing, chanting, music courtesy of the drag queen on a roof, dancing, awesomeness. And the cops were standing by to block off the streets and let it all happen. It was an amazing experience.
And, so, I cheesily made a video of my day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70XpjP-2s3s
I mostly got machines, and then about an equal number of people who had already voted and were happy to hear from me and people who had already voted and were not happy to hear from me. Two whole people hadn't voted yet, but knew what they were doing. I ended the calls when I calls when I got the "I wish you people would stop calling" comment - and she had voted for Obama! But, the room was full of people calling on their cell phones, so I'm sure many, many more people were reached that day, so some people must have been affected by the calls.
Then I was recruited to wave signs. There were 2-8 of us while I was out there, about 3 hours. That was a really positive experience. Lots of honking, cheering, waving, peace signs. A couple fingers, and some negative shouting, but not much. The best was when school buses drove by and the kids would cheer.
On the walk back home I walked over a highway and ran into more sign wavers. I stayed with them a few minutes, as they had an awesome location. Lots more cars.
Then I ran home for dinner, and then to meet Molly downtown. We had a list of places to go to watch the returns, and we walked all over town trying to find a place that wasn't completely packed. All over town. We finally found a smaller place, but it's a comedian hangout and they turned off the TV and started talking on stage, so we left. The place also didn't serve food, and we were starving. We caught a cab to Molly's, and as we were getting out I heard the cab's radio say that it looked like Obama won. Joy, but frustration. We were looking forward to the suspense. We ran in a shop and bought some food and the checker said it was "a good day." We smiled and ran to Molly's apartment to bust out the computer and TV. We got to see most of McCain's concession, and then Obama's speech, while screaming and yelling. Soon we realized there was commotion on the streets, so we left to join it.
Honking, cheering, high fives, happiness. It was so awesome. We walked to Pike Place Market, and found a huge crowd of people gathered. More of the same joy. Then we walked up to Broadway, where we were sure there would be more people, and there were. Fireworks, drinking in the streets, cheering, hugging, singing, chanting, music courtesy of the drag queen on a roof, dancing, awesomeness. And the cops were standing by to block off the streets and let it all happen. It was an amazing experience.
And, so, I cheesily made a video of my day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70XpjP-2s3s
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Bill (and Dana's) first contribution
I'm not entirely sure what we're supposed to do here with this Blogger thingy majiggy, but since Christina took the time to create it and name it after my favorite cat (or ghost thereof), I figured I'd better participate.
I guess we're supposed to keep in touch and let people know what we're up to or something like that, right? Christina? Right? Am I right?
All right, well here's what's going on with Dana and I. We're getting married. Duh! You already knew that. We're spending most of our time these days planning or worrying about not being able to pay for the things we're planning for: our wedding. It sounds like a drag, but it's really not that bad, and you're all gonna love it.
Recent news: this last weekend we decided on and bought our wedding bands, booked our DJ, and met with and decided on our officiants for our wedding. "Officiant? What's an officiant?" Well that's what you say when you're not sure if you're looking for a Priest or a Rabbi or Pastor or a friendly bum or anything inbetween to perform your wedding. In our case, it's a Pastor and a Cantor (Wiki it. It's like a Rabbi, but not). They have a very interesting relationship, involving living together for 5 years and raising their respective children together in both Christian and Jewish traditions. For whatever reason, they are not "going" together anymore, but still work together in interfaith ministries and weddings and the like. Pastor Alexia runs CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), which really focuses on poor and immigrant families, and Cantor Steve runs Breeyah, which is a fledgling Jewish congregation that meets at a Catholic nunnery in Bel Aire (yes, where Carlton lives) and works with interfaith couples and Autistic children. They both came into their relationship with preconceived notions of the other religion and learned a lot and changed a lot as a result of their experience. In short, they're very cool, and have a lot of insight to offer.
So, that leaves us with this:
Things left to do: book photographer, book videographer, find suits, cake, flowers and lighting, make playlist. Should be simple.
And here's our schedule through the 4th of November, if you're wondering where we'll be:
Oct 18th - San Jose for Dana's sister's wedding.
Oct 25th - Dallas for shower and "Bachelor Party"
Nov 1st - Nevada to canvass for Obama and various assorted Nevada Democrats.
Nov 4th - Vote, sit back and celebrate!
That's it for us for now. What are yaaaaaaaaa'll up to?
-Bill (and Dana)
PS. No, Simon's not mad that I called Ali Baba my favorite cat. Afterall, since the blog is called The Ghost of Ali Baba, it's really named after Simon. That would explain a lot, after all.
I guess we're supposed to keep in touch and let people know what we're up to or something like that, right? Christina? Right? Am I right?
All right, well here's what's going on with Dana and I. We're getting married. Duh! You already knew that. We're spending most of our time these days planning or worrying about not being able to pay for the things we're planning for: our wedding. It sounds like a drag, but it's really not that bad, and you're all gonna love it.
Recent news: this last weekend we decided on and bought our wedding bands, booked our DJ, and met with and decided on our officiants for our wedding. "Officiant? What's an officiant?" Well that's what you say when you're not sure if you're looking for a Priest or a Rabbi or Pastor or a friendly bum or anything inbetween to perform your wedding. In our case, it's a Pastor and a Cantor (Wiki it. It's like a Rabbi, but not). They have a very interesting relationship, involving living together for 5 years and raising their respective children together in both Christian and Jewish traditions. For whatever reason, they are not "going" together anymore, but still work together in interfaith ministries and weddings and the like. Pastor Alexia runs CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), which really focuses on poor and immigrant families, and Cantor Steve runs Breeyah, which is a fledgling Jewish congregation that meets at a Catholic nunnery in Bel Aire (yes, where Carlton lives) and works with interfaith couples and Autistic children. They both came into their relationship with preconceived notions of the other religion and learned a lot and changed a lot as a result of their experience. In short, they're very cool, and have a lot of insight to offer.
So, that leaves us with this:
Things left to do: book photographer, book videographer, find suits, cake, flowers and lighting, make playlist. Should be simple.
And here's our schedule through the 4th of November, if you're wondering where we'll be:
Oct 18th - San Jose for Dana's sister's wedding.
Oct 25th - Dallas for shower and "Bachelor Party"
Nov 1st - Nevada to canvass for Obama and various assorted Nevada Democrats.
Nov 4th - Vote, sit back and celebrate!
That's it for us for now. What are yaaaaaaaaa'll up to?
-Bill (and Dana)
PS. No, Simon's not mad that I called Ali Baba my favorite cat. Afterall, since the blog is called The Ghost of Ali Baba, it's really named after Simon. That would explain a lot, after all.
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