{"id":847,"date":"2006-06-08T03:51:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/08\/more-good-stuff-too-busy\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T03:51:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T07:51:25","slug":"more-good-stuff-too-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/more-good-stuff-too-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"More good stuff, too busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a VERY busy week for me.<\/p>\n<p>Monday I had my Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective<br \/>\nmeeting.&nbsp; After the meeting some of us went to Westville Pub to<br \/>\nplay some music.&nbsp; Didn&#8217;t go well, I needed to leave early.&nbsp; I<br \/>\nwalked about a mile and then a lady gave me a ride home.&nbsp; Lots<br \/>\nmore story there, but I&#8217;ll leave it for now.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday.&nbsp; Asheville-Buncombe Coalition for the Homeless<br \/>\nmeeting.&nbsp; Good meeting, had fun.&nbsp; Went home and started<br \/>\npreparing for the Annual Meeting and Elections for Asheville Homeless<br \/>\nNetwork.&nbsp; Was up until 5 am doing that.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday.&nbsp; 2:00 I met with my therapist at my apartment, then at<br \/>\n3:00 he drove me to Mellow Mushroom, where we had a planning meeting<br \/>\nfor Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective (and pizza<br \/>\nparty!).&nbsp; Great meeting, went until 6.&nbsp; Went to Courtyard<br \/>\nGallery to discuss a Mad Movie Marathon weekend with Carlos.&nbsp;<br \/>\nCarlos has movies all the time, especially Friday nights, and we in<br \/>\nARMHC had an idea for a weekend of movies with mental health<br \/>\nthemes.&nbsp; Carlos is all for it, with the caveat that the movie<br \/>\nFriday night must be a foreign film (he shows foreign films at the<br \/>\nGallery every Friday night).&nbsp; Went home and did more work on the<br \/>\nAnnual Meeting, spent an hour and a half updating The Kindness<br \/>\nCampaign&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Then I spent another hour or two finishing up with <a href=\"http:\/\/ALT-therapies4bipolar.info\" target=\"_new\">ALT-therapies4bipolar.info<\/a><br \/>\n.&nbsp; This is my newest website, bringing together all the<br \/>\ninformation we have developed through the ALT-therapies4bipolar<br \/>\nYahoogroup, and it really looks good.&nbsp; I&#8217;m having trouble talking<br \/>\none author into letting us keep her stuff on the site, it is almost<br \/>\nessential, but I can link it one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of email to process.&nbsp; My cousin Linda is online and writing<br \/>\nme every day.&nbsp; And I have to get some sleep, because the Annual<br \/>\nMeeting is tomorrow at 2:00.&nbsp; If I recover from it, I&#8217;ll head out<br \/>\nlater to the Open Mic at The Courtyard Gallery, something I <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">try<\/span><br \/>\nto make every Thursday.&nbsp; Of course, I could also go to the<br \/>\nCitizen&#8217;s Police Advisory Commission Town Meeting in East Asheville,<br \/>\nbut there is no guarantee of a way home from there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting out to put out fliers for classes on herbalism and<br \/>\nplant growing; a local organic farm pays me to put up the fliers.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThere was a rush job to get them out to local acupuncturists, but I<br \/>\njust did not have time to even research where they are.<\/p>\n<p>And I also have a document for The Kindness Campaign to go through and<br \/>\nset up a Table of Contents.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t have time for that until<br \/>\nFriday at the earliest; I&#8217;m waiting to hear from Cathy if that&#8217;s ok, if<br \/>\nit isn&#8217;t a rush.<\/p>\n<p>And Sunday is Barry&#8217;s retirement party from The Kindness<br \/>\nCampaign.&nbsp; It will be my first time at Lotus Lodge, home of the<br \/>\nmonthly magazine &#8220;Spirit in the Smokies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Guess that&#8217;s about it.&nbsp; You&#8217;re probably getting manic just reading<br \/>\nabout this.&nbsp; It has been a while since I had a week this busy, and<br \/>\nI hope it&#8217;s a while before I have another one.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a VERY busy week for me. 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