It was a Tuesday

It was a Tuesday and it did not start as a particularly good Tuesday. I was still a little worn down from the City Council meeting the night before. We had had a “Goldie Locks” meeting that Monday night. It was not that bad, but not really that great either. It was better than I had expected it to be considering we were taking on changing the sexually oriented business ordinance due to the recent emergence of a juice bar/strip club downtown.

The entrepreneurs of this establishment had decided to move forward exploiting a loophole in our current ordinance, which prompted the council into pondering an interim ordinance to close the loophole. I expected a fairly heated public comment period on the ordinance, but turned out to be a surprisingly subdued hearing and we got out of our meeting at about 10:30 PM, our average closing time for a city council meeting.

The meetings are always a little draining and facing work on Tuesday is never all that much fun. I did my best to get as much accomplished on Tuesday morning as I could, but I was checking the clock every half hour waiting till it was lunch time. Lunch is always a demarcation point in my day. It means I only have a half a day left. Well that may not mean much to others, to me, that is how I mark my progress through the day. I had the usual lunch at Subway and upon returning to the office I saw that my voice mailbox held a message.

What I heard when I checked that message gave me a shot of adrenaline that stayed with me for three days. It was a voice message from the American Council of Young Political Leaders asking me if I would like to take part as a delegate in an exchange they were organizing. If I was interested, I should give them a call back and we would visit.

Of course I called the woman back to find out about the exchange. There were a couple of different trips in which I could participate. I checked my schedule, and even though it was coming up quickly, the exchange to South Africa worked best with my schedule. I confirmed that I would be very happy to join the delegation. That evening when I got home, there was an e-mail in my inbox that had some paper work to fill out. I completed the paper work in short order and faxed it out the next day to officially confirm my participation in the exchange.

Hearing about being a part of the delegation to South Africa definitely changed my dreary Tuesday into a Tuesday I will remember.

The link below show the Wikipedia information on South Africa.

South Africa