I am so burned out on Power Vote. It's not even funny. Looking back, I can definitely see some things I did wrong. Primarily, I can't leave Power Vote. My house is the headquarters on campus. I'm trapped inside this campaign, and I can't leave it, and it's exhausting.

Also, the national leadership of PV (and to a certain extent, the regional leadership from Ethan) keeps forcing events and efforts and high goals on us, and it's just not realistic. We can't do everything.

And I don't like Al Gore and I spent all of yesterday organizing for his webcast. Jesus. And Ethan pushed us into committing to do get-out-the-vote phonebanking afterwards, but that doesn't even make sense here. No one at this school actually votes at the polls, and the deadline for absentee ballot requests has passed. So we did the webcast. We didn't phonebank. I left about 10 minutes into the webcast because I just didn't want to be there.

So I'm tired and stressed and burned out. But it's OK, because election day is Tuesday and then PV is DONE. I am counting down the days.

In other news, the TOAST folks are here. They're lovely. I am excited for my summer at Acorn and Twin Oaks. I'm applying for a visitor period at TO (May 22-June 9), and I'll be applying for an internship at Acorn as soon as I finish the TO paperwork. Summer will be lovely. I sometimes feel like I make more sense when I hang out with communities folks. I don't feel like I have to try as hard to express myself and maintain who I am, and it's something of a relief.