Fix things Friday

Hi, newcomers! I have some new people in my circle from dolorosa_12's post-Yuletide friending meme. Maybe I'll write up an intro post about me some other day? But today it's Friday and I haven't done this meme since (ahem) December 1.

The idea is that every Friday (or every other Friday, in my case) you write up the political action, in a broad sense, that you have taken. The idea is to hold yourself accountable, inspire other people, and feel that you have accomplished something.

Since December 1 I have:
- Attended and taken minutes at a union city-level members' meeting.
- Attended and taken minutes at a union board meeting.
- Chaired a union meeting at the university.
- Called new union members and then held an introductory meeting for them.
- Put together union email newsletter for December and January.
- Contributed to the union member magazine.
- Helped prepare a union conference in January.
- Helped handle an issue involving union office equipment. In short, it consists of: 1) a bad financial decision by the previous board (DO NOT lease things!!), 2) neglect by the previous union administrator, 3) a decision by the new board that turned out to be bad because it was based on faulty information. This whole thing wastes money and I hate it. /o\
- Occupied a threatened forest.
- Talked to people living near another threatened forest to see if we could help them.
- Contributed to and translated parts of a report about infractions against the FSC (an environmental forest certification).
- Got an op-ed criticizing a forest company published in a local newspaper.
- Put together the next newsletter of environmental organization (much longer than the union one).
- Prepared a lecture on biofuels, forest and climate, to be held next weekend.
- Wrote a grant proposal for doing inventories of threatened forests in the summer, and gave feedback on another proposal.
- Wrote another grant proposal about printing a second edition of a pamphlet about forest issues I wrote years ago.
- Eeeeemailed a lot in both organizations.

Whew. That was a lot, and I might've forgotten some things, too.

Upcoming fic exchanges

I...do not usually post this often. Yay?

I really want to participate in more multi-fannish exchanges this year (I've only done Yuletide in the past). chocolateboxcomm seems like an easy start, since it's only a 400-word minimum. But I'm also intrigued by worldbuildingex, where nominations are open now. Anyone else doing that one? If so, what would you nominate?

Off the top of my head, my ideas are:
- Left Hand of Darkness, where I'd love some mythology or storytelling, and I'd also love to know more about technology on that world. It's supposed to be stable and not disruptive to the environment, how does that work, socially speaking?
- The Dispossessed is always interesting, like early days of Anarres stuff. I already got that for Yuletide once, but why not?
- Earthsea is already nominated, with prompts like Roke, Enlad, Solea, and Dragons. Hmm. *ponders other Earthsea prompts*

Er, maybe I should have non-Le Guin ideas as well...