Work has not been that satisfying lately. There has been no more talk of my being actually hired, like filling out paperwork and getting a check. The volunteer coordinator position involves trying to find people willing to mow lawns on vacant lots. I am just not sure how excited anyone is going to be to do that kind of work, and how to find them. There is an organization that lists volunteer opportunities in Athens and I have listed it there, but no responses yet. As far as the bike ride, I am waiting for some other people to do the things they said they would and it is holding me up. Five weeks to go.

I am missing my guests terribly--how wonderful the world would be if I could see them every day; or at least it seems so. Lidet called last night and I wasn't here. I was at a not-very-important meeting of the community center committee. The building is about finished and it is a testament to patience and persistence and goodwill. It will be wonderful and no feelings were hurt in the building of it (I think). Over budget (a little) and behind schedule (a lot), but otherwise everything we wanted and then some.

I enjoyed yesterday's writing workshop a lot. Although I hadn't written anything I wanted to read out loud, I did some brainstorming about a science fiction novel, in which the world is secretly run by 7 old men, benevolent dictators who live in an outwardly nondescript apartment building and have control of all the media and computers and world leaders.

Weather was on the hot side, but very pleasant in the house still and okay to open windows late in the evening. More asparagus. Something--bird or squirrel?--has eaten some of my strawberries. Not sure what I can do about that.