The Neon Nurse's Charting

You too are probably familiar with this dreaded syndrome, though you might not have known it had a name.

Here's how it goes. You intend to do Something, but for one reason or 12 others, don't manage to do it in a timely fashion. So to damp down your guilt, you promise yourself that when you do it, you will do a REALLY super job.

Eventually, you've emotionally committed yourself to coming out with Something which is as intricate, amazing and time-intensive as the Book of Kells.

Having caught myself doing that, I'm going to try to stop. And also try to keep up better with replying to my comments.... (Oh, no, that's wasn't a hint or anything. Really not. Much.)

Okay. So here I have a great opportunity to finally catch up with an important post I never quite managed to make, AND last night's excitement.

Here in Colorado, last night was Caucus Night. I found out where my precinct was going to meet, turned up, and won the hat trick, becoming an Election Judge, Delegate to the County Caucus and Precinct Secretary. (Don't be too impressed, though, there were only three of us present, not counting Mike.)

The reason I did this was because of that meeting I went to Denver for a few weeks back. Remember, where I was all excited about attending an anti-war rally? And then I got sick (not related, I don't THINK 0.o ) and didn't post much for about a week and a half? Yeah, that one.

As you may have heard, although Howard Dean dropped out of the presidential race, he did not quit. He just changed Dean For America into Democracy for America (hence the geeky joke DFA 2.0), which is to be a PAC and a grassroots stimulating organization, encouraging regular people to get involved at any and all levels of government.

So the organizers of this meeting used the Colorado Dean supporters email list to invite us all to come and chat. Basically the topic was, "Do we want to do something and if so what?"

It kicked off with a bang with a surprise guest speaker. Using the miracle of modern technology, we got a phone call from DR. DEAN! HIMSELF! LIVE! THERE ON THE SPEAKER PHONE! TALKING JUST TO US AT THE MEETING!!!!!!!!

It was cool.

I didn't have any questions, but someone who did thrilled me to teeny bits by starting her part of the conversation by saying, "Dr. Dean, there's someone here wearing a t-shirt that says, 'Still A Deanocrat' and 'Still Want My Country Back'." He laughed and said, "That's good."

That was me!

To cut to the chase, we all decided to form the Colorado chapter of Democracy for America, and Sunday we got together again to start to work out structure, plus have a candidates' fair. I got elected as one of the At Large committee members, mainly because they want to represent the whole state and I was the only person from Southeast Colorado.

So here I am, a real genuine new bee in the world of politics. jumping in both feet first to see how much of a difference *I* can make. Hang on tight, might be a bumpy ride!