Political Mania

...or hypomania, at least.

I volunteered for Michael Nutter's campaign today for a couple hours, and it was actually fun. I just wrote addresses on envelopes, stuffed said envelopes, sealed and stamped them. Then I entered names and personal information into a computer database and listened to the guy next to me cold-call people and go through a spiel and then ask them point-blank whether they're going to vote for Nutter in the May 15th primary. And I was happy the whole time and have been reading online stuff about him and his campaign this whole afternoon and evening, here and there.

So I'm down to volunteer for the campaign for this whole week, basically. Still thinking about how many hours I want to put in tomorrow, seeing as I have to go to a one-hour lecture, possibly go for a jog, and participate in JeffHOPE, my school's community service organization where we go to homeless shelters.

Speaking of that, I gotta work on my teaching. See, the cool thing about JeffHOPE is that it pairs up a third or fourth year with a first or second year student. As the third year, I get to teach a young'un. I felt like, last time, I didn't do a very good job -- sort of disorganized. Man, I'm almost a fourth year. This time has flown by (and in another, more correct way, it's gone by veeeeery slowly).