from liz lemon to leslie knope

strange things happen when you are sleep deprived, study local government your entire weekend, then fall asleep to parks & rec.  and this is what happened to me monday night.

philip and i are huge 30 rock fans. and philip likes to make jokes about how similar i am to liz lemon.

i mean, our love for all things food (except meat), lack of exercise, lack of grace, lack of interest in romance and love for saying inappropriate things when other people are lovey-dovey, love for writing, laziness... the list goes on.  there was always at least one time per episode liz would say something like... "well, one of my new year's resolutions was to say yes. yes to love. yes to life. yes to staying in more!"  and philip would just give me the look like that is so you.  and he had a point.


but on monday night, something different happened.  it was a regualr night; i was coming off of a weekend studying public policy 24hrs a day, worked all day monday, came home, watched the GOP debate and then two hours of rachel maddow.  and when i finally went upstairs to go to sleep, i put on an episode of parks & rec.  while i dozed off listening to leslie knope debate the issues of installing a community garden, i had a strange thought.  in my new life i'm creating this semester, i'm much more leslie knope than liz lemon.  i am a busy, busy woman.  i'm really into politics.  i'm volunteering.  i believe in the power of local government.  i'm involved.  i'm a feminist (i was one of those as liz lemon, too, but still).  leslie never says she's a liberal, but... you know she is.  she's got framed pictures of speaker pelosi and secretary of state clinton.  and even funnier - in our fake local government administration we created in my public policy class, i'm in charge or parks, economic development and planning and historic preservation.  sounds about right.  


i know how nerdy this sounds... but i couldn't be happier!  i got up tuesday morning to work (while we were down two girls at the office, no lunch break for me :( ), worked a good 9 hours, and then went straight to my OFA phone bank to make calls for two hours.  and when i came home, i felt super super good.  good enough to crack open an IPA and blog to all you lovely people :)  i'm into my 9th day without a day off but i'm loving my busy, involved new life.  i feel so dedicated and motivated - i just wish i had more hours in the day!

well friends like i said today is my 9th day straight working, thursday will be my 10th.  but i'm celebrating 10 straight days in a big way - headed to boston friday night to spend FOUR WHOLE DAYS with my awesome family out there!  so super psyched for fall on the east coast and some good dad/aj time.  much needed.  i'll still do my friday blanking as usual but otherwise you'll hear from me after my vacation!  


and here's the link to volunteer with your local OFA group to help organize some real change in your neighborhood :)