At the Meetup

Well, I just got back from another Dean Meetup, and after missing the past few because of my actuarial exams I'm starting to wish that I was less dedicated. I met several new people there that I had some pretty good conversations with. Like any political event, you have both the really cool people and the crazy people at the same time, but luckily this one was weighted to the former and not the latter. Had a good discussion with a guy about the CSO (in addition to all the political discussions, of course) for instance. Also met a girl who was just about to be shipped off to Wisconsin with the campaign. She works in Evanston providing social services and briefly talked about living France. It seems to be that in the last three years I've forgotten that most of my good friends back home were people that I met while working in politics. This sort of thing reminds me of why that's the case.

I also got the opportunity to handwrite two letters to potential voters in Iowa about why they should support Governor Dean, which I thought was an interesting exercise in democratic discourse. All-in-all, I'm pretty psyched about the whole thing again -- it's too bad that I'm leaving in a couple of days to go back home, although I should be back just in time for the January meeting.