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Last night I spent a pretty long time working on a questionnaire for Shobhit's campaign, answering all of eight questions by an organization called
House Our Neighbors, a "coalition" committed to ending Seattle's homelessness crisis, and clearly a big supporter of this year's
Initiative 135, which approved the creation of social housing in Seattle.
In the end, I wrote up all of 438 words cumulatively answering the eight questions on this questionnaire, which barely more than half the length of one of my average movie reviews. But, the process took a lot of time because I had to research nearly every question online, not knowing the details about what they were asking.
The final question was thrown in for fun, an kind of a cheeky way of gauging familiarity with House Our Neighbors' community involvement, I think:
Housey: Great mascot or greatest mascot? Explain.
Without any context, I knew Shobhit wouldn't have the first clue what they were talking about. Even I only knew from the context of the question that it clearly referred to a person who came to certain community events dressed as a sort of anthropomorphic "house."
It took a bit of Googling, but I found a
couple of
photos on the Real Change website: I guess Housey is the "I-135 mascot." I even found at least one photo of him
on Twitter.
Anyway, when I showed Shobhit the answers I had written up, he rightfully altered and added where needed; what he wound up emailing in probably had upwards of 500 words or more cumulatively in the answers.
I also helped him with another online form that was much easier, with two inputs for name and position he's running for, and then just two simple questions. He tweaked those as well.
I don't know how much time I saved him by doing this work, but probably a fair amount—and the draft answers I did certainly reignited a spark in him, giving him more motivation than he's had in a while, feeling overwhelmed by the steady stream of questionnaires coming to him from different organizations. This type of work is starting to take up a lot of his time that otherwise could be spent knocking on doors, and how busy he's getting seems to be justifying his decision to take a sabbatical from his job for at least a couple of months.
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As much resistance as I have had to a lot of personal involvement in Shobhit's campaigning, I do think doing this work made a pretty big difference. In terms of morale alone, just a little bit of help goes a long way. I did feel like it was appreciated.
By the time any tweaks to answers were done and two more questionnaires had been returned to organizations, there was maybe an hour left of the evening to do whatever. So, I decided finally to check out this series on Apple TV called
Silo. We had time for only the first episode, of which 7 have so far aired, out of a scheduled 10 for the season.
It seemed to compel Shobhit more than I think he expected. My reaction to it was kind of mixed. I wasn't the biggest fan of its kind of odd, barely-rushed pacing, and production design that falls just short of convincing. But, the story itself still has my interest piqued and I remain very invested in finding out what will happen next.
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Weather has been pretty mild for a bit, but yesterday and today has been another brief increase in the heat, with a high in the upper seventies yesterday and highs in the low eighties today. Bleh. I've worn shorts to work both yesterday and today. The forecast says 30% chance of rain on Friday with a high of 65°. I'm not holding my breath on the rain.
I just sat out on the patio here at work to read my library book in the sun. It was only 76° but it felt super hot too me. I'm glad to be back inside with air conditioning again.
The sun is supposed to return for Sunday and Monday, which works for me—I'm taking Monday off for Shobhit's and my anniversary, even though our actual anniversary is on Wednesday. I still have no idea whether we'll go anywhere, but I continue hoping. We've never waited so late to make any kind of plan.
Either way, of course I prefer it when the weather cooperates with my plans. If only it did so all the time! I love rain, but love it better when I don't have any outdoorsy plans. Why can't the weather just check my calendar?
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