Good Causes

Last night, my husband and I spent the night sleeping in a tent for a good cause. Student Government, Phi Theta Kappa, and the GSA all participated in Tent City, an event to raise awareness for homelessness in the Toledo area. We also collected donations for Sparrow's Nest, an emergency shelter for women in Toledo.

We had a lot of fun, but I'm definitely not the roughing it type! I was up until well after 2:00 Am laughing with Barb and Nick. Heath, one of my bosses from an older job on campus, stopped by and decided to hang out with us. We had a really good time.

Unfortunately, there were a lot of people there last night that I didn't know. Those people, as people are wont to do, thought they were much wittier and more amusing than they actually were. Nick and I were also pretty sure that two of the young men, who disappeared for quite some time, ended up getting high when they ran off to Giant Eagle to pick up a cookie-cake for no good reason at all. The only reason I went to bed when I did was that I was tiring of their banter.

You know the scene in the movie Role Models where Paul Rudd's character says something to the effect of, "I hate camping! There's always some douche bag with a guitar who doesn't quite know how to play it..."?? I lived that last night. One of the guys who was cookie-cake high brought his two guitars. Bad enough to have one guitar out in a group full of people around a make-shift fire pit, but two? Why in the hell do you need two?

The fortunate thing is that I did have some fun. Better still is that I'm done with it now. Best is knowing that, even though we just sat around and laughed, it did help to bring homelessness to the front of the minds of the people who watched the evening, late, or morning news. At least that is worth my spending a night freezing my butt off and sleeping on the lumpy ground. I can feel good about that.