MAR-A-3
THE LAST OF WINTER-’03?
FROM A COLD BLUSTERY START, MARCH PROMISES TO WARM UP
AT LEAST TO MELT SNOW AND MAYBE EVEN TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO RUN!
MARCH 4-5, 2003
I had been driving to GW daily from my Bronco down at the foot of the drive, but tonight I drove it up in 4 WD Low through about a6 inches of soft rotting snow, since it got above freezing today for the first time in a week. I had a package to be delivered to me yesterday, but since they could not come to the house, they left a slip saying I should call for it. So, I drove to the post office, went out to ransom a tank of gas, and then drove up the drive with all the packages from post office and from work that I would not have been able to carry up the drive. I loaded up the trash and carried that down and then went out for a run, in the less trafficked side streets—the very first run of any kind in a month, since the big Blizzard-’03 hit. Now, that makes me a non-runner, and I will have to see only two plus weeks from today if a nonrunner can pull off a marathon, since the DC Marathon is being run for only its second time on March 23, and I am registered. I will have to do a lot of long and intense running to make it all up.
I may have mentioned that the GWU Award was suggested and a nomination forwarded for the deadline on March 7. As I was pulling out supporting material for that, along came a letter from Craig Schaefer that was completely unexpected for a Volunteerism Award by the American College of Surgeons with a deadline for nomination of March 17. This was a big surprise since I knew nothing about the Award and my first hearing about it came with the very gracious and complete letter that Craig had written and sent me a copy a week after he had mailed it in. So, we will see what comes of both these nominations, although I know that both have very stiff competition of some very worthy recipient candidates.
I am trying to complete a dozen leftover projects on which the snow days had helped me get a start—including the update on the CV, the backlog of hunting stories which I had finished and a look over some of the past due publishing things I had still to work over. I sent in the credit card information for the Malawi trip and am getting the China visa before my passport is needed for the trip through London to Malawi. There is no recent information on the other big business affairs and their timing. I had sent forward a rather complete application for the SCI Chesapeake Chapter in initiation as a member, when I discovered it had a movement entitled Safari Care, which I would like to tap into, and perhaps some of these other humanitarian patterns will help in getting more of this activity going...