Day 31-32.

Last night I did the HOPE Count with my office at school. Honestly, I didn't really want to do it. I still feel eghh about staying at school longer than I should and I don't really have someone I connect to at school. Having worked at my office for 2+ years, I felt like I should be more active than what I do during my work time. You can't expect others to do something if you yourself tell them "you should do this.." and find excuses not to do it. Mm so HOPE Count is an annual homeless outreach population estimate run by the Dept. of Homeless Services. You go out in teams and survey an area given to your team, and every person you encounter you ask them a few questions to find out if they're street homeless. Not so much outreach in the sense that you offer them help, but by collecting the data from all the teams, the DHS is able to tweak their services to better provide for the homeless. It's held late at night in the winter because that's when the unsheltered and those that need the most help are out. As we were going out, the volunteers were given snacks and info sheets to help get through the night. Being the only one with a big enough backpack I offered my team members to carry their stuff. At the end of the night, my team leaders was busy getting all the information together so I went to get him a cup of hot chocolate and helped him out.

Today was Tigger's welcome back day! My friend was living off campus and she was having problems with her roommates to the point that she needed to get out of there. She decided moving back to the dorms would be best, but no pets allowed. She called and told me her situation and asked me if I could take care of Tigger until Spring break. Of course I would! She found out yesterday that she had to move back to the dorms last night and really needed me to take Tigger as soon as possible. Because of her classes I had to pick him up either before 11 or after 5:15. I knew 11 would be way to early because I'd get home late from HOPE Count, but I would rather do that than leave my house late and get home later. So on 3 hours of sleep I got my butt out of bed, picked up Tigger, got back home and knocked out.

HAHA.