Today was nice and slow. The scheduled stuff for today was specialized training for the individual group roles. The specific roles are jobs that one or two team members within the group take on, like physical training, organizing independent service projects, and maintaining the vehicle and tools. I'm officially the media relations specialist, which means I do all the contacting newspapers, meeting any people who come on site for media stuff, etc. It looks to be pretty cool.
This weekend is the first weekend we've gotten fully off, so a lot of people are going to cities/touristing (I'm going to Tahoe, but that's not the point here). So, there aren't many people cooking dinner in the kitchens, and my group was left to fend for themselves and there isn't much food left. I mean, there is preeeetty much NO food left. We have two potatoes, some canned black beans, tomato paste, pasta, some sandwich meat and odds and ends. However, I just wanted to mention that with those materials (and admittedly a little milk, cheese, and mushrooms pilfered from some other groups. Their contribution to my nutrition is much appreciated) I whipped up a very decent alfredo sauce with ham and mushrooms.
Back last week on monday, when we first got into our official teams, everyone was bemoaning how we would be switching rooms eventually. I still agreee with all the bemoaners, but we had all figured that the admins forgot about the room change since it has been almost two weeks. No such luck, because apparently we have to move on this coming monday, which kind of stinks. This week I perfected my organization routines, with all the jazz about where I put clothes I'll wear again vs dirty clothes etc etc etc. So, general grumble on that front.
And I don't know how many people know about NanoWrimo, but this is National Novel Writing Month. If I were to put in like 1800 words a night (say two pages), I would have something in the range of a wimpy mini-novel. I tried for one night, and I know that I won't be able to do it, primarily because I leave in twenty days for a place with no internet or electricity. So, next year I guess.