And now, for something completely different: an actual student for Kucinich.

(...imagine that, eh?)

I'm back at school, now. [and of course, right after I type that, I get a resounding "yes, yes you are" in the form of Dave Matthews' Band being played across the hall from me.] I suppose this makes me a '.50 intern' now, because I'm still a young person doing a lot of work for the campaign, and I'm still the SfK coordinator for the Great Lakes region. I just don't sit in the office all day every day with the rest of the Cleveland interns. I'm also going to continue to blog, which'll be an interesting part of it. Consider me your correspondent, I suppose.

Though I have approximately as much free time as I did while back up in Cleveland (read: minimal), I would like to report that I have in fact seen the sun for the first time since I've been here. I saw it today at about 11:15am. T'was pretty awesome and in no way overrated. So, before I return to my regularly scheduled Thursday Pwnage, this is for my homefries up north:

"SUN"
(artist's rendition)
Nowadays I frequently run around looking for places to go and people to talk into joining us (usually the former which results in the latter), which I like to refer to as activisting. At my school's involvement fair, I politely walked right past the army recruitment tables to go hit up every table under the "special interests" sign... mostly with classic "Hey! I LOVE [your cause]!! Talk to me!" kinda enthusiasm.
The mention that I'm with the Kucinich crew got me mostly lukewarm reactions, but I did get a couple of sincerely excited people who were very happy to sign up with me and a lot of contact info from big important orgs like Amnesty and the campus' ACLU chapter. More promising: I've got a whole lineup of human rights, pro-civil liberties, anti-war, super-actiony/issue-specific campus group meetings to go to so that I can talk to people and basically say "If you care about [issue], this is who you should be voting for, ps help me out." Starting what's only the third student campaign on this here densely populated campus will be quite the adventure.

--That's right, by the way, the third. The Ron Paulers are everywhere, including here, and I have spoken to and made peace with them. They don't get in our way at all, and the ones I spoke with were actually decent to me, so good for them. I talked to the Obama kids under the guise that I too was a supporter (..hah), and among other things, they expressed how they were all quite pleased that Clinton's people do not have a presence here. My goal here is to build a Kucinich Coalition that'll make the Obama kids wish they only had Clinton people to deal with instead. I also aim to convert win over at least one of the Obama kids to our side in time.

An afterthought: I have yet to see or hear of any Edwards supporters here at all, however there is a guy on my floor who kinda really looks like him. I plan to make him aware of this in eventuality.

There's been a few discouraging moments thus far, but I'm doing my best to turn a blind eye to them on my worst days... and on my best days, I sass right back (uh, in the nicest way possible), 'cuz I'm about done with people who want to tell me that I'm the fool 'cuz I don't support their precious corporate democrats.

And with that sentiment thoroughly expressed, I'm going to go for a little walk. I've kinda missed the outside world and its crudely rendered green smile, after all.

-s.