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You know how on some buses the back section is elevated a couple of stairs from the front of the bus. Well this morning, this guy sprawled out on those stairs and just flat out refused to move. People had to literally climb around him to get to and from the doors. Gotta love San Francisco.

So this morning we had a session on time management and how to manage planning and goal setting for a campaign or event. Definitely got some good tips. Then we had a few hours to spend again just on reading up about Greenpeace and what not. I never really got a chance to check out photos of the oil spill until then, but I looked through about 300 today. It's so devastating. I honestly just can't get over it.

Then we had one on one talks to discuss goal setting, and what we want to get out of this internship and how we plan on achieving that with our managers/supervisors. I talked to David who is the coordinator for the Student Network at this office. He is super nice, really great guy. Definitely helped me a lot with role playing for the phone calls yesterday as well.

After that we spent just over an hour again on the phones, contacting people in Nevada to get them engaged on this issue (see yesterday's blog). Between the five of us yesterday we had 17 people commit to call Senator Reid, and today between the four of us we got 20 commitments. Plus a bunch of people who said they would be writing letters to the editor. It's nice that all of the people we are calling have signed up for Greenpeace emails or petitions in the past, so it's not just contacting anyone who may or may not be interested. This definitely makes things easier. At first the whole phone call shindig seemed sort of draggy and menial but it's really neat because some of the people you talk to you just really change their minds and see potential activists in them. In some people you can sort of hear the light switch flick and feel them think "I can really do something to make a difference" which is neat.

Apparently our house has now officially been declared haunted, but us.

Shivs has a mysterious sore on his back.

Someone left a little bowl with a thank you note inside our gate for "feeding my stomach" and none of us have any idea who it was from.

And now someone's computer cord has disappeared when no one was in the house but us and some very close friends. Dun dun dun.