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tetsabTurns out this is still a useful thing to do 'cause if you'd asked me if I was doing much Post-Covid I would have said that I was doing Nigh on Bugger All. Annnnnd yet, even on a quick review, I see This Is So Not True. Turns out it would take until mid-2023 before I pretty much totally burned out on all things Community Engagement. In my mind I was very Community Engaged before Covid and Not So Much after but with all these non-work remote meetings to note in this post...
January
Producing alla that actually made me queasy (my stomach legit turned when I opened July in my calendar and I had to step away for a break). I'm not sorry I'd step back from a whole lot of it once work started getting crazy in 2023!
January
- 01st: Local collector of nifty vinyl does a livestream (stream)
- 10th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 26th: Common Approach meeting (remote)
- 27th: Catch-up call with colleague 1 (remote)
- 29th: Takeout Thai food for bday with family
- 02nd: Catch-up call with colleague 2 (remote)
- 03rd: Coffee with community organizer 1 [a fateful meeting that would presage my spending a buttload of time on 2 election campaigns for him this year and the next(!)]
- 16th: Data Science course 1 (remote)
- 17th: Data Science course 2 (remote)
- 28th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 21st: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 23rd: Engaging Community meeting (remote)
- 30th: Nonprofit User Group dry run (remote)
- 04th: Catch-up call with colleague 3 (remote)
- 06th: Nonprofit User Group meeting (remote)
- 10th: Coffee with community organizer 2 (remote)
- 13th: Electoral community meeting 1 (remote)
- 18th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 20th: Electoral community meeting 2 (remote)
- 21st: Common Approach AGM (remote) / Queer Trivia (remote)
- 23rd: Local EcoDay
- 24th: Electoral database training 1 (remote)
- 26th: Electoral database training 2 (remote)
- 28th: Electoral database training 3 (remote)
- 29th: Job courting 1 (remote)
- 02nd: Flight to Calgary for work gathering (back on the 6th)
- 11th: Electoral community meeting 3 (remote)
- 15th: Electoral community meeting 4 (remote)
- 16th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 17th: Electoral community meeting 5 (remote)
- 19th: Local election all candidates debate (remote)
- 20th: Eglinton Working Group (remote) / local hangout on deck
- 23rd: Electoral community meeting 6 (remote)
- 26th: Electoral community meeting 7 (remote)
- 27th: Job courting 2 (remote)
- 29th: Electoral social around campaign office / sidewalk by office
- 30th: Bike to work day / Queer Trivia (remote) / Electoral community meeting 8 (remote)
- 04th: evening_tsar's cousin's wedding next to a cornfield
- 05th: Electoral community meeting 8 & 9 (remote)
- 06th: Co-workers in town dinner in Yorkville
- 07th: Ethiopian lunch with different in town co-worker
- 08th: Electoral community meeting 10 (remote) / coffee with new boss at old org
- 09th: Fundraiser from my organization [usually in Jan but would have wanted all windows and doors open]
- 10th: Drinks with quitting co-worker / Electoral community meeting 11 (remote)
- 12th: Political Action Conference [AKA formal training for all this local election work I've been doing since April]
- 14th: Electoral community meeting 12 (remote)
- 15th: Electoral community meeting 13 (remote)
- 16th: Hangout on a deck with local a.g. folks cause Yet More a.g. folks are in town from the US
- 18th: Pub and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival with the deck folks
- 19th: Toronto East Cyclists backyard BBQ social
- 20th: Farewell dinner and bar with the in town a.g.-ers
- 21st: Electoral community meeting 14 (remote) / Queer trivia (remote)
- 22nd: Electoral community meeting 15 (remote) / Eglinton Working Group (remote) / Bells on Kingston (remote)
- 25th: Bike 'round the Islands with 2 of evening_tsar's brothers and his uncle
- 28th: Electoral database training 4 (remote)
- 29th: Electoral community meeting 16 (remote)
- 02nd: Electoral database training 5 (remote)
- 04th: Electoral community meeting 17 / 18 (remote)
- 06th: Electoral community meeting 19 (remote) / Farewell drinks with co-workers
- 07th: Electoral community meeting 20 (remote) / Job courting 3 / Electoral community meeting 21 (remote)
- 10th: Electoral community meeting 22 (remote)
- 11th: Electoral community meeting 23 (remote)
- 13th: Electoral community meeting 24 (remote) / Bells on Danforth (remote)
- 14th: Local farmer's market [but with bonus impromptu functioning as election campaign photographer :P ]
- 18th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote) / Electoral community meeting 25 (remote)
- 19th: Civic Tech Toronto meet-up (remote)
- 20th: Electoral community meeting 26 / 27 (remote) / Techsoup Donor Databases session (remote) / election canvassing [just a lit-drop]
- 21st: Bells on Kingston (remote)
- 22nd: Bells on Kingston map dev 1 (remote) / Bells on Kingston map dev 2 (remote)
- 23rd: 'Xmas in July' with mother of highschool friend [100% not my bag but her mother became friends with mine and now it's A Thing]
- 25th: Electoral community meeting 28 (remote) / coaching failed job candidate on how to improve (remote) / Toronto Salesforce User Group leaders meeting (remote) / Electoral community meeting 29 (remote)
- 26th: Dinner with former co-worker
- 27th: Electoral community meeting 30 (remote) / Official election campaign launch on local restaurant patio
- 28th: Cloud tech for nonprofits (remote) / Bells on Kingston map dev 3 (remote)
- 29th: Job courting 4 (remote)
- 30th: Job courting 5 (remote)
- 01st: Electoral community meeting 31 (remote)
- 02nd: Graphics for nonprofits (remote) / Civic hacknight (remote) / Electoral community meeting 32 (remote)
- 03rd: Cycle Toronto Eglinton check in (remote) / Bells on Danforth (remote)
- 04th: Bells on Kingston map dev 4 (remote)
- 07th: Retirement party for father of highschool friend
- 08th: Electoral community meeting 33 / 34 (remote)
- 10th: Electoral community meeting 35 (remote) / Nonprofit governance (remote) / Bells on Kingston (remote)
- 11th: Electoral community meeting 36 / 37 (remote) / Nonprofit mass mailing (remote)
- 12th: Electoral database training 6 (remote)
- 13th: Dinner with sister for her bday
- 15th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 17th: Food solutions for nonprofits (remote) / Electoral database training 7 (remote) / Data Security & Privacy (remote)
- 18th: Electoral community meeting 38 (remote) / Queer Trivia (remote)
- 19th: Bells on Kingston (remote)
- 22nd: Electoral community meeting 39 (remote)
- 23rd: Civic hacknight (remote)
- 26th: Electoral community meeting 40 (remote)
- 30th: Electoral community meeting 41 (remote)
- 01st: Fly to Vancouver for 4 day train ride through the Rockies with Mum and sister [mildly dreading this but was booked pre-Covid and was close to the last time my Mum would be cognitively able to appreciate it & unsurprisingly *did* get sick after it. Aunt was also supposed to go as a joint bday celebration but dropped out last minute]
- 06th: Bells on Danforth (remote)
- 12th: Bells on Kingston (remote) / Electoral community meeting 42 (remote)
- 15th: Electoral community meeting 43 (remote)
- 17th: Electoral community meeting 44
- 18th: Scarborough History Ride
- 19th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 21st: Gathering with former org alumni
- 24th: Ethiopian lunch and outing to the ROM with highshool friend
- 26th: Electoral community meeting 45 (remote)
- 28th: Nonprofit data (remote)
- 29th: Queer Trivia (remote)
- 01st: Nuit Blanche
- 02nd: All Candidate's Ride
- 03rd: Electoral community meeting 46 (remote)
- 04th: Detoxing Democracy (remote)
- 07th: 4 days in a cottage over Thanksgiving booked as my sister's bday gift
- 11th: Civic hacknight (remote) / Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 13th: Surprise attendance at Billy Bragg after another attendee unable to go
- 20th: [A fully mystifying item at 7am simply called 'Zoom test']
- 24th: Get out the vote / Election wrap 'party' [fun enough even if it wasn't the desired outcome]
- 25th: Civic hacknight (remote) / Electoral community meeting 47 (remote)
- 27th: Toronto Nonprofit User Group (remote) / Queer Trivia (remote)
- 05th: Walk 'round the Scarborough Bluffs / NaDruWriNi
- 13th: Electoral community meeting 48
- 16th: Tableau for nonprofits (remote)
- 21st: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 22nd: Dinner with former hiring manager
- 25th: Electoral database training 7 (remote)
- 26th: Bach Elgar choir
- 03rd: Bells on Kingston (remote)
- 04th: Trek up to Eglinton to confirm status of the lanes [status = Metrolinx mess]
- 07th: Electoral community meeting 49 (remote)
- 11th: Beaches Choral Society performance of Handel's Messiah
- 12th: Bells on Kingston (remote)
- 13th: Civic hacknight (remote)
- 15th: Election worker thank you dinner
- 17th: Loreena McKennitt in Ottawa
- 19th: Electoral community meeting 50 (remote)
- 26th: Boxing Day with highschool friend's mother
Producing alla that actually made me queasy (my stomach legit turned when I opened July in my calendar and I had to step away for a break). I'm not sorry I'd step back from a whole lot of it once work started getting crazy in 2023!