Wherein I fail at Volunteering

[wickedwords]

We ended up not doing food lifeline today for two reasons: we were exhausted and overslept, plus apparently they had changed the location of the get together today, and I didn't get the emails. Lar was able to dig them out of his trash, so we got the details eventually, but it was too late to make our shift.

The reason for the switch in location is that Food Lifeline had a huge donation of canned goods given to them, but this donation included canned goods that were under recall. So there were morning and afternoon shifts today at the south Seattle distribution center, not the north end one where we usually go, to painstakingly sort through the canned items, pulling anything that was on the recall list. There are thousands of cans and hundreds of pallets to go through, so it was sent out as an emergency 'all hands on deck' arrangement for meeting at 9 am today--and we didn't make it, which I feel very guilty about. Yet it did not stop me from watching SGA and reading my Flist once I knew we couldn't get there in time.

Is it any wonder that today's essay on 14valentines is about Hunger? The irony right now is intense.

Comments

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Fah, you volunteer more than about 97% of the people I know, you shouldn't feel guilty.

I need to get back to that myself, I've taken the classes to teach ESL and adult literacy and I haven't done any volunteering along those lines in years.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. And yesh! Think about volunteering again. It'll be something different, and it might be a needed change of pace.