Beware the Plague….

Hope you like the new layout, I’ve been messing around with it.

A terrible enemy has reached Lil Vil…in the form of the common cold. Having so many people in the house that interact with so many people on a daily basis, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I have mostly just had some sniffles and a cough and had to take a few days off of running. A couple people had to stay home from work, I just left a little early on Thursday, but there was not much going on so I got away with it.  I have almost finished my project of updating the resource book at Taller de José but have been seeing more clients this week. We’ve been seeing lots of legal issues this week (as we usually do) and I have even started calling my dad with legal questions…on my work phone, which is kind of cool.

I got to do some outreach this week, visiting a few different agencies to tell them about Taller. On Monday I went to Marillac House, they have child care and a few other programs. They are in East Garfield, which is a mostly African-American neighborhood and they were really excited to be working with us because they want to reach out to the Hispanic community. On Wednesday, Lisa and I met with someone from the Resurrection Project in Pilsen (I got to go into the two greenest buildings in Pilsen) because they are a huge organization and we wanted to get into a staff meeting so we can meet more of the people in charge of other departments. On Friday, a few of us went to an Access Community Health clinic in Pilsen—one of a network of clinics all over the city.

The plague also spread to work (I think something must be going around Chicago, other agencies I have been talking to have been having absences too. On Friday, Lisa stayed home and it was like the entire neighborhood knew it…because they all came in. That might be a slight exaggeration, but Sr Betty did comment that it seemed like it was the full moon or something (I just checked…it was). Friday morning was crazy and we were a little late getting to the Access clinic but it was okay because they were understaffed because of the cold going around.

Since I was sick during the week, all I felt like doing was sitting around watching movies. So it was fortunate that Ann K’s mom had a conference in town this week and brought a case with 32 dvds.