I've split my time between Brooke's place in Chapel Hill and this awesome, awesome place in Durham - House of Mango. It's an activist/organizer collective living place near downtown, and instead of writing blog posts before bedtime, I've been up engaging in all manner of conversation with the folks who live here.
Since it's finals-time, it's been like pulling teeth to get meetings with students. This is a difficulty for a student organizer, but it's enabled me to spend time making connections with various community organizers, which is a good thing. I had lunch today wiht Tema Okun, long-time trainer with changework, now an adjunct professor at Guilford, and a general anti-racist Big Deal. It was really awesome to sit down and have a conversation with her about post-elections analysis and movement building, seeing as I'm a whopping 3-year veteran and she's been doing this her whole life. She also happens to have an amazingly fluffy cat named Pete.
Afterwards, off to Winston-Salem to meet with another organizer-type person, and back again to meet with a student. At least as we near the end of the week, students have turned their papers in and find a hour here or there. I do appreciate it, since it's not like there aren't other things going on for them. But we ate at a lovely Kenyan food restaurant mere blocks from where I began my day.
I'm darn sleepy, so this is not my most engaging post. Perhaps I'll quit while I'm behind. :)
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