Alex told me about The Great Schlep ! This is genius. My grandma lives in Florida, but unfortunately she can't vote.

I'm been having some nightmares about oversleeping on election day and not opening the polling place. I have to be there at 6 AM. I'll probably be too nervous to sleep at all.

2 Coasts

This is a heads up for a great reading next week in Brooklyn:

The Burning Chair Reading Series

Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Lily Brown & Elizabeth Robinson

Friday, November 16th, 7:30 PM
The Fall Café
307 Smith Street
btwn. Union & President
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
F/G to Carroll Street

AND on Sunday in San Francisco where we are cleaning up birds covered in the oil spill:

Mrs. Maybe Launch Party & Reading

Megan Breiseth
Julie Choffel
Graham Foust
Steve Kramp
Sandra Lim

food & wine
surprises

Sunday, November 11th
3:00 in the afternoon

Canessa Park Gallery
708 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

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My students make a newspaper. It comes out every three weeks. This issue covers fires in Southern California and earthquakes and oil spills in Northern California. We also had a carnival.