And the good news: CityWheels!

Cleveland finally has a carshare program!

City Wheels Cleveland

Woot!!! I've been hoping for one of these for ages, and loudly envying cities that have them. Then I checked the qualifications page, and my heart sank... I haven't held a license for the past three years.

So I sent this off:

To: Info@CityWheelsCleveland.com
Subject: license requirement

I was very excited to see a carsharing group starting up in Cleveland; I've
been envying other cities for years! I've just been checking out the site,
and I see one major qualification problem I'm going to have -- since I've
been using RTA for several years, I don't have a valid driver's license, and

would be getting a new one if I sign up for this program. However, with the

three-year rule, that's a problem. Is there any flexibility in this
qualification, or are there plans for a policy change in the future?

--Sarah Young
Tremont, Cleveland, OH

And got this back:

Hello Sarah,

As long as you have three years' worth of a driving record at any time in
your history, you are eligible for CityWheels membership; it doesn't have to
be the past three years, per se.

We'd love to have you! Let me know by email or by phone if you have any
other questions; I'd be happy to talk with you more about the program. It
sounds like it would be perfect for you!

Looking forward to working with you,

Megan

Hoorah!!!!! It's not a solution to my commuting problem, but it does potentially solve our "trips to the pet store and grocery store" issues!

Hey, household!

I'm thinking about placing a small Amazon order today or tomorrow. Anyone want anything added to it?

*twiddles thumbs*

Well, I've called back every open call in my queue up to yesterday.

And I've made my pathetic and desperate attempt at a June clinic escorting schedule -- we've got more holes than swiss cheese, and I'm currently the only person scheduled for the 10th. Which presents a bit of a problem when we are supposed to have 6 people between two clinics. (bec76 and habari -- still interested in training?)

I've cleared out my email accounts.

I've caught up on article reading in TruthOut, Alternet, NY Times, and Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report.

I've ordered books from the library.

I've checked my bank account online.

I've updated my "To Do" list.

In an hour I've got a training session, but until then....

*whine*I'm BORED!!!!*/whine*


Well, gee. And the phones just got busy again. Careful what you wish for...

(the other part of this problem is that I'm too brain-dead to entertain myself)

Thoughts on a meme...

The meme is:

When was the last time you touched another person? Who? Where? How?

I'm not actually sure, and it was almost certainly something very casual and fleeting; passing items from person to person and such. Actual memorable contact with humans would've been Saturday, at the CLAW volunteer party (many hugs).

I don't tend to think about the human contact thing all that often, since the pets fill that need pretty well (when I'm at home it's rare that I'm not in direct physical contact with at least one other living being), but overall it's one of the trends in my life that I'm less than thrilled about, and it seems to mostly be circumstantial stuff that just feeds itself -- the less random contact happens in my life, the less used I am to it, and therefore the more awkward and weird it feels, and therefore the less there is, etc. It's one of those weird areas where my self-image and reality have grown very far apart. I think of myself as a very "touchy-feely" person. I certainly have been in the past, since I was a kid (my personal goal every Sunday was to manage to hug everyone at church before the end of the Peace -- I did a lot of mad dashing about).

Some parts of the change are good things -- learning that not everyone wants the same kind of physical contact that feels/felt normal to me, and learning not to invade their space. Some parts feel more like I've gotten a bit oversocialized by the work world, though, and that I tend to bring the 8-hour-a-day non-touchy habits home. And a lot of it, I suspect, is just changing circumstance. More and more of the people I'm comfortable being touchy-feely with aren't within physical range most of the time (even when thinking about local folks, the difference in face time now, compared to high school or college, is certainly drastic).

Oh, time to go!