Did apartment stuff today; cashed a check. Had lunch for Celina's birthday. Pumpkin, my wheelchair, was returned. I didn't run him around a lot, I will take him out Monday for a mall trip. I'll spend over $400 that day. I need to go to mall- get bras, a new bed cover, some sheets. I need to pay my show free.

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Hi all...

I was productive, posting a lot. I wrote on Mylot, Blogit, and here. I was supposed to go see the apartment today, but my landlord screwed up. I have lots of news print for the safer sex project. I like junk mail now. I'm busy working on the Lang Po inspired novel. I think it would be a cool Three Day Novel idea. I want to enter that contest again. I missed entering it last year. I don't know what the judges will think; maybe they won't like it. But then I remember that I've never written for judges.

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I have opted to stop posting on Yuwie. In 14 months there, I've only made 5 cents. I've made almost 10 times that here in a month and a half. My mama didn't raise no fool. I've written two blogs on today.com, as well as posting on Blogit and Mylot. For a sucky day, I got a lot of work done.

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I didn't go to the convention. I was up all night using the bathroom; I peed every 30 minutes. I think I have a UTI, but no doctor is open until tomorrow.

Thanks to technology, however, I can still deliver my speech. I emailed it to a fellow Green- Rainbow friend and they'll read it aloud for me. Later, they'll call me when it's time for the business meeting in case people have questions, I'll be on speakerphone. Via technology! I'll let you know how it goes.

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Note: This is a speech I'm going to give at the Green-Rainbow Party Convention tomorrow. I'll let you know if I get the job or not

I have opted, after much consideration to run for Female co-chair of this party. I do this with some reservations, but I�ve always been (at root) a heart thinker rather than a head thinker. Running for party co-chair is yet another one of these decisions in my life.

As co-chair, I hope to heal many of the wounds that have been created among ourselves (albeit mostly unintentionally) within the past few years. In 2001, when I joined the party I thought I- a confirmed Democrat since they age of 12- was joining �the party of hope�. I ran for office. I was supported. I was believed in. Green, and later Green-Rainbow folks, became a badly needed source of community for this displaced and homesick Pennsylvanian.

In 2006, I ran for Lt. Governor with much aid from many people in this room. I was the most severely disabled person ever to run for office, whatever that means. I truly thought I was changing the world. They very activity for which I believe I was pit on the Earth by either God or the Universe, depending on your personal belief system.

After my 2006 run, I sadly saw the Party deteriorate. We didn�t need the Democrats or Republicans to rip us apart we do it ourselves. What�s the point of that? I feel like we, as a Party, need to learn how to disagree. There is no need for every Green-Rainbow Party member to have the same opinion as all the others. This Party is, hopefully, not a sponsor of dictatorship. Democrats and Republicans are not all similar in nature, even if they share similar politics,; why must we be?

If what I just said makes sense to you, please vote for me as female co-chair. Please assist me in taking back our party and rebuilding the valued community we�ve, to some degree, lost. Thank you!

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I feel better. Yay! Actually, I started feeling better last night and then I went to bed and woke up around 2 in the morning full of energy. Why couldn't this have happened yesterday during the day time when I could have kept my apartment appointment? Just my luck. What do you do when you wake up at 2 in the morning and can't get out of bed yourself? I took a bunch of notes on my cell phone for projects I wanted to do and I planned to finish the Language Poetry book. I even came up with a new safer sex project which will be done by December 1st (World AIDS Day) 2009. I'm going to create mini safer sex art display pieces which feature actual safer sex devices and poetry. Hopefully I can get the devices donated as they are not cheap and I don't care to buy any I'm not actually using for their intended purpose. Goodness knows that hasn't happened in a long time but that's probably too much information.

I got up at 8AM and have been going strong ever since. I have 5 partially completed book pages. I'm going to get them transparencied tomorrow and then I will have a page that's actually done. If I can finish a page a day it will all be ready to unveil at UMass on December 11th.

I just wanted to let you all know I am doing better. And in other good news I will be hopefully getting my chair back on Wednesday. It's been a long time, at least 2 months.

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