ok ok---people have been demanding that red cross mumurings be explained. so--here is the scant amount of info i have at the moment. i have been trained. i could be deployed at any time.

really--that is all i know. they need gazillions of people to go open shelters and help feed hungry people and do logistical work surveying damage and other such disaster stuff. i always feel this great tug at my conscience to go help in times like these but i usually have handy excuses at the ready (school, work, rent etc.) but at this particular time in my life i have nothing holding me back (except for some dumb job that i'm not particularly trying to work my way up in) so i figured that this is it. carpe diem and all that. not to mention that is the largest disaster to ever strike the u.s.a. and millions of people are displaced and have lost everything and i can at least give some effort to help out. i hope they call me. apparantly i'm fit enough and sane enough to participate and so now all i can do is wait. i've been studying sign language like a madwoman because i told them i could speak it well and that may be a leetle exaggeration. i can speak it. but maybe not so well.

i've been relatively uninspired by blogger.com lately---sorry for my very dry entries. but, let it be known that i am very inspired by everyone else's blog. alex is funny. melissa is nutty (but i can't comment--what do i need to do?). becca is apparantly having too wild of a time. michelle is chasing tornados. emily is in never-never land. these are all good things.
thank you one and all for the encouraging comments---much love.

(of course you'll be the first to know if i get deployed. does anyone wanna come with?)