On Sunday afternoon, September 14th, I participated in a lecture and group discussion held by my friend Cielito at Think Coffee in Greenwich Village. It was regarding Maitreya, Age of Aquarius, and peace, sharing with world communities and through http://www.share-international.org/ It was great seeing Cielito and meeting some new people at the discussion, which was really fascinating.
Tuesday, September 16th, I had an appointment with my lung specialist towards end of the work day in Brooklyn. Discussed my situation and how best to deal with it. Afterwards I headed back into Manhattan for the monthly NYDoP board and core team meeting. We had a decent turnout and mostly discussed fundraising, Inwood retreat and Resolution 627. Great seeing everyone, as I wasn’t able to attend August meeting due to still being in quarantine.
Thursday morning, September 18th, I had an appointment with my internal medicine specialist before heading into work. He’s put me on a new meds regime to control the disease in my lungs. Hopefully these new meds won’t cause annoying side effects. After work I joined the Park Slope knitters group for a fun, interesting “yarn swap” at Sweet Melissa’s. [Weather was comfy and we utilized the garden area in back for dining.] It was quite a turnout this evening, with about 25 to 30 folk in attendance. I’d never been to a “yarn swap” before and it’s conducted by a points system. I wasn’t able to bring much, so I did not receive very many points, but enough to get yarn for my “Granny Square” project. I enjoyed socializing with the other ladies, eating some good food, and discussing or working on knitting projects.
On Saturday, September 20th, I joined other NY Tolkien Society members in heading up to Timdalf’s for the annual Bilbo/Frodo Birthday celebration and picnic. Not all of the members could attend, but those of us that could had a fun time. [I wasn’t on my new meds yet, so was able to partake of some wine and get a wee bit tipsy.]
I met up with Jessica and Anthony at Port Authority between 10am and 11am. We took the 9A bus up to Tim’s place, which is north of Nyack. Weather was sunny with some clouds and around 70 degrees. Everyone brought up some delicious homemade goodies to share at the picnic and Kathy provided the tasty wine. I brought up my homemade brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
Much socializing amongst the society members, a toast to the Professor and after some serious noshing, we all sat down to answer LOTR Trivial Pursuit questions, which were read to us by Timdalf. At that point, several of us [including me] were tipsy with wine and shouted out some silly answers. While eating the yummy birthday cake we had a raffle of Tolkien items and I won a 2009 calendar. Overall, a good time was had by all. Hurray!
Sunday, September 21st, I had an appointment with “Beyond Ground Zero” grassroots organization on the lower eastside of Manhattan. They help 9/11 survivors with health issues … I mostly spoke with Tosh and Celia. Learn more about them at http://www.beyondgroundzero.org/
Tuesday, September 23rd, I had an appointment with another lung specialist to get a second opinion on my situation. He in turn will discuss his conclusion with my main lung specialist. Last time I’d seen this particular specialist was back in 2006. Later that evening I jumped onto a conference call with the NYDoP CCR committee. Discussion centered on procedure for follow-up calls to the Sept 17th fax to City Council members who are co-sponsors to Resolution 627. We also discussed PowerPoint presentation and drafting a letter to Community Board chairperson.
Protesters Take Their Outrage to Wall Street
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/rights/100414/
Bailout Backlash: Five Surprising Things that Happened on Thursday
AlterNet Staff
http://www.alternet.org/election08/100391/
Protests on Wall Street, White House pow-wow flops, Bailout plan implodes, and Obama will attend debate and McCain’s suspended campaign stunt.
[Duchess Note: Bravo to ALL the protesters who convened on Wall Street area yesterday. Let those greedy, spoiled, rich thugs on Wall Street know how the majority of Americans feel about them. We will NOT bail you out of the mess YOU made. Clean it up yourselves AND with your own funds. Not ours! If the Democrat majority in Congress allows the bailout to go through, guess what, many of us will NOT vote your disgusting butts back into office. No friggin way!!!]
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