Got my remix assignment!

And oh, wow! and Yay! I'm very excited to be able to play with the author's work, but unfortunately, I cannot do a thing on it until I get my Sweet Charity story done. Looks I should bring that one to Escapade just in case I remember to work on it.

I should do that 100 words a day thing this month, shouldn't I? Hmmm.

I'm also up as this month's McKay/Sheppard reccer for stargateficrec, so I need to go through my history on delicious and see what hasn't been recc'd yet that I would like to do. I may not get it posted until tomorrow, as we are off to feed the world this morning, but it's always a fun thing to do. I want one angst, one happy, one epic, and one crack... And if I get to it, maybe a good AU.

Ooohhh. Maybe some good SF. Or horror! Or just something a little different. With all the romance, the other genres get lost, and I like diversity like that.

Food Lifeline Day

It's the first Saturday of the month, so that's the day we often go help with Food Lifeline. Today we had 2 other volunteer groups with us, including one that was doing a team building exercise for a church mission in Haiti. They were hugely enthusiastic and I'm afraid their eagerness and go-gettem attitude made my head hurt; I felt very old and grumpy by the end of the shift, while they were still all eager and wide eyed, challenging each other as to which of their groups would box up the most frozen corn.

And as they'd made some changes in how the frozen foods were repackaged, we got to work in the heated part of the warehouse, and those efficiencies helped a lot. I don't know if it was more the new process or the new volunteer's enthusiasm, but we repackaged more corn than we'd ever done before in a three hour shift and we got to take a full 15 minute break. I have no idea who won the church's self-challenge, but all the volunteers together packed up almost 10,000 lbs of frozen corn, enough for over 7,000 meals.

If, you know, you were gonna only eat corn. *g*

My hands were frozen by the end of my shift, just like the corn, and I really loved taking a nice hot bath and thawing out. Now, though, I think it's ice cream time, and finally a chance to watch last night's ep of Atlantis.