As I type, I'm on a train to New York. This year's birthday is celebrated on a coast I know not well with a present of an 8-hour portion of a retreat to help facilitate in New York. I'm trying not to be bitter, and part of me consented to it. The retreat itself is exciting - USAS's first-ever Alliance Building Committee strategy retreat. The ABC is the group that works on implementing anti-oppression work USAS-wide. It helps to be able to meet and strategize while doing that!
Tomorrow I turn twenty-nine, which I feel is a pretty unremarkable number. I question what I'm doing as an organizer with a student-run organization, but I think we both feel that I'm doing more good than harm, so hey, beats crappy nonprofit administrative work by tons.
Elly, Alicia, and my pal Molly will be gathering after the eight-hour retreat for a small birthday fete, that'll be fun. It seems like it would be hard not to have fun with a birthday in New York - so much happens all the time there! Heck, we could walk around and go to a bookstore and I'd be happy.
I've been something of a lug about my Taurean comrades' birthdays - Karl, Noah, Anju, Izzy - I owe ya somethin'. A little piece o' my heart.
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