Mostly Good Things
Aug. 19th, 2022 10:49 pmFour good things that have happened:
1)![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aseanchai and I have been writing GOTV postcards for years now. This year, we wanted to dedicate some time to Field Team 6's program that lets you register voters via postcard. To that end, we wrote 100 cards to register voters in Ohio, then switched over to another project. The idea was that we would switch things up to avoid boredom, then go back to helping out our home state. There were over 900 postcards left when we went on hiatus; when I looked yesterday, they were all gone. It's good to know that we're not the only ones out there doing the work!
2) Last week, a beloved local chef told the community that he had to shut down his family-owned restaurant due to a cancer diagnosis. His last day was supposed to be August 27, but he's recently shared an update! A local restaurant group is going to work with him to keep the restaurant open during his treatment, and he'll be able to rejoin the kitchen when his treatment and recovery are complete.aseanchai and I are very happy about this, because this chef was the same one who catered our wedding reception on fairly short notice. He's a good person who has had a rough few years (his restaurant opened in 2020), so it's nice to see him get a lucky break.
3) A friend introduced me to Galactic Journey; I joined their Discord server and got to watch some original Star Trek on Wednesday night. The people there are nice and some of them are writers, which is a good thing foraseanchai and I (but mostly aseanchai ). Hopefully we can make new friends and even get some leads on publishing fiction.
4) I'm rediscovering the joy of finding journal icons. I've never been any good at making them, but fortunately Dreamwidth has a bevvy of icon communities. It's strange, though - back in my 20s I was a big fan of icons featuring pop culture characters and celebrities, but these days I have trouble finding icons that feel like "me," if that makes sense. In saying that, I did grab an icon featuring an annoyed-looking Thranduil from The Hobbit. It was too good to pass up.
I've been doing what I can to get the word out about the Trek Federation's donation and supply drive for Eastern Kentucky flood victims. I've only really been able to post on Twitter - I haven't heard back from the mods on the Star Trek subreddit, and I'm not an administrator on the Federation's Facebook page yet. I worry that I'm not as good at promotion as the founder may have hoped. From what I can tell, no one new has donated to the GoFundMe, and no one has purchased anything from the wish list since last week. There's a part of me that knows it's not my fault; you can tell people that help is needed, but you can't compel them to participate. At the same time, I can't help but take it personally. Most of all, I worry about the people down there who need the rest of us to rally around them. Clean-up is going to take months, if not years. I worry that all it's taken is a few weeks for most people to forget all about them. We'll see what happens, I suppose.
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aseanchai and I have been writing GOTV postcards for years now. This year, we wanted to dedicate some time to Field Team 6's program that lets you register voters via postcard. To that end, we wrote 100 cards to register voters in Ohio, then switched over to another project. The idea was that we would switch things up to avoid boredom, then go back to helping out our home state. There were over 900 postcards left when we went on hiatus; when I looked yesterday, they were all gone. It's good to know that we're not the only ones out there doing the work!2) Last week, a beloved local chef told the community that he had to shut down his family-owned restaurant due to a cancer diagnosis. His last day was supposed to be August 27, but he's recently shared an update! A local restaurant group is going to work with him to keep the restaurant open during his treatment, and he'll be able to rejoin the kitchen when his treatment and recovery are complete.
aseanchai and I are very happy about this, because this chef was the same one who catered our wedding reception on fairly short notice. He's a good person who has had a rough few years (his restaurant opened in 2020), so it's nice to see him get a lucky break.3) A friend introduced me to Galactic Journey; I joined their Discord server and got to watch some original Star Trek on Wednesday night. The people there are nice and some of them are writers, which is a good thing for
aseanchai and I (but mostly aseanchai ). Hopefully we can make new friends and even get some leads on publishing fiction. 4) I'm rediscovering the joy of finding journal icons. I've never been any good at making them, but fortunately Dreamwidth has a bevvy of icon communities. It's strange, though - back in my 20s I was a big fan of icons featuring pop culture characters and celebrities, but these days I have trouble finding icons that feel like "me," if that makes sense. In saying that, I did grab an icon featuring an annoyed-looking Thranduil from The Hobbit. It was too good to pass up.
I've been doing what I can to get the word out about the Trek Federation's donation and supply drive for Eastern Kentucky flood victims. I've only really been able to post on Twitter - I haven't heard back from the mods on the Star Trek subreddit, and I'm not an administrator on the Federation's Facebook page yet. I worry that I'm not as good at promotion as the founder may have hoped. From what I can tell, no one new has donated to the GoFundMe, and no one has purchased anything from the wish list since last week. There's a part of me that knows it's not my fault; you can tell people that help is needed, but you can't compel them to participate. At the same time, I can't help but take it personally. Most of all, I worry about the people down there who need the rest of us to rally around them. Clean-up is going to take months, if not years. I worry that all it's taken is a few weeks for most people to forget all about them. We'll see what happens, I suppose.
