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Alright, welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore.
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Your daily briefing of all the goings-ons around arts and ideas. So today
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was another great day. Unfortunately I had a rather lengthy staff meeting in
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the library, socially distanced and talking to our online staff as well.
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Wonderful location, but not under the tent. The tent is lovely, wonderful weather.
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Looks a little cloudy today, anticipation of some rain later tonight. Want to point
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out a few cool things going on around here. We've got a whole new way of using
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and abusing those rolling blue chairs. We had the chairs, had a chair out in front
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of the door, parking lot door, and what do you know, we had a ramp right there. So
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rolling down those ramps. It's pretty amazing to particularly see the little
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ones pushing the chair back up just to go rolling right back down. Kind of
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reminds me of good old Sisyphus back in the day. The gaga pit is being used right
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now, not for gaga, but you know, climbing over walls and stuff. At least until
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Caroline gets a sight of it. And also seemed to have a rather sizable group
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under the tent doing some sign language activities. So that's pretty cool. Had a
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good JC day over some resource conflicts. In particular the one thing that needs
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to be addressed is the computers and we're having that work out. I haven't
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quite yet made the system for assigning them for the day but we'll try that out.
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So far you know most of the computers are not being used but there are three
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in the JC room that are heavily desired and so that's been a little bit of a
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conflict there. We love conflicts around here and we love having our JC system.
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This is the first day for Declan to be JC clerking and those are a really good
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JC despite there was a grass mower going on right behind us, people spread out of
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course socially. So you know it can be a little challenging but Declan did a
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really great job on that. Right now to the side is, you might hear it in the
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background, some drywall delivery to our neighbor who's redoing that house. You
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might have seen over the past year or two or three or so. So that's moving
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right along so that's pretty cool. Tomorrow we will have article club that
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is I believe at 11 and should be mentioned in discord. It's on the article
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building peace narrative I believe by Charles Eisenstein, the father of Philip
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Eisenstein, a student here who is on campus. I was watching a talk that Charles
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gave a year ago online that was pretty good. So if you don't want to read it you
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could go take a look at it. If I had show notes I'd put it in the show notes and I
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don't have show notes. So I'll talk to my producer, me, about it. Let's see what
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else. I also witnessed a nice game of hide-and-seek which is a little bit of a
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challenge on an open, easily seeable field but a few of the younger ones gave it a
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great go. So yeah that's another day, another week. So this is tipping Thursday
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where I try to come up with a tip of the week. So if you find yourself in the
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middle of a pandemic and you have to do coin operated laundry, just hypothetical
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here, and all the coins are no longer in circulation for whatever reason
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like things aren't even giving out quarters anymore. Well I've got just a
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tip for you. You can do your laundry in a bucket. You need a stick with a plunger
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like thing on the end, kind of an agitator, got kind of a webbing and you
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just kind of plunge up and down in the water, put some soap on the water, plunge
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plunge plunge, get rid of that water, put in some fresh water, plunge plunge plunge
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and voila you're good. Now you're also gonna probably want some kind of spin
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dryer to spin all that water out. It's still not gonna be dry when it's done
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because there's no heat but it'll be not dripping and now you can hang it up and
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you've got fresh laundry. You could use this to have just one outfit that you
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wear over and over again which I think is pretty cool. Not quite there yet but
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you know I just did some shirts and stuff yesterday and even a pair of jeans
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and worked out beautiful. All right so that is tipping Thursday. You all have a
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great time and see you all tomorrow.