Oak Park is 57% vaccinated, about 2/3 of those currently eligible. It’s better than a lot of places, but still. We could get to herd immunity; it’s eminently possible, and it would make so many vulnerable people so much safer. Deeply frustrating.
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It is so strange — ever since running for office and being elected, I feel this increased sense of responsibility. So when a tornado warning went off tonight, yes, I went to go check on the kids and decide with Kevin whether we needed to wake them and head to the basement… …but I also
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Funny moment — going in for a high school board meeting (that I actually got wrong, it’s tomorrow, not today, oh well), and realizing that I have accidentally dressed in the school colors, orange and blue (with white and black accents). I guess I know what I’m wearing for Spirit Week. Go Huskies.
So at the last board meeting, I lost a vote. This is the first time that’s happened to me while serving on a board — at the library, our votes were nearly always unanimous; I can only remember one time when one person voted against the rest (and he later said that he’d thought about
I had an hour between graduation ceremonies (due to social distancing, they’ve divided the graduates into two groups), so I decided to come home and make a cup of tea and grab a cardigan for the evening and change into flats, because I am so unused to wearing even stacked heels that after an hour,
This has been an impossible year, and you and your families should be immensely proud of what you’ve accomplished.
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School board meeting tonight, 6:30, got home around 11. School board is definitely more of a gauntlet than library board…
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I’m catching up on posting a few things from last month, which got very harried with end-of-semester. This is a quick pic of me in the sari I wore when being sworn into school board office. What’s funny is that I waffled mightily about which sari to wear — the problem being that I mostly
Home from first school board meeting, 10:22 p.m. It started at 6:30. I’m told this is really quite early for getting out of a school board meeting. Going to be an interesting four years. I may have to pick up an evening coffee habit? Although tonight, I was revved up enough on nervous energy to
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