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Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Sky, By the Fire, and Around Baltimore.
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It's your daily podcast briefing of all the goings ons, ins and rounds, and some ideas
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said very school.
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So today is Wednesday, February 24th, a day that we will all remember, well, for a day.
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We are back in person.
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We had an amazing turnout, almost essentially the same number of people as we had in the
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fall.
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I'll come back.
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A couple people have come back that weren't here before, and a couple more will be coming
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hopefully at the end of the week.
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So it's been really great to see everybody again.
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It's really been wonderful.
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The field was, well, it was a soggy, wet, muddy mess with rivers all over through it,
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but people were playing in it, coming away with a lot of mud, and they were playing Frisbee
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in the field for a long while, and it looked like somebody was holding, it could almost
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be a cricket bat.
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We put out chairs in the parking lot, everybody was hanging out here, it was really great.
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A lot of energy, really amazing.
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Ashley has set up the fire pit, a nice new galvanized tub to hold it all, and got the
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fire going in the afternoon, and that was nice, really lovely to see some flames, get
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some warmth, smell that smoke, and it's away from the building, so I like that.
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Stacked some firewood, and hopefully we will get more and more firewood to keep our fires
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going around here.
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There was a meeting for organizing the art room, a perennial project, a meeting for creative
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writing, my usual role playing group decided that the first day in person was just so much
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fun, that we'll do it another day.
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It is a little hard to stop doing what one's doing in terms of socializing in person with
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people, talking, talking, talking, so much talking, so, so much talking.
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It's really great to be back, and I hope anyone who is out there online still feels connected,
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we will be still doing everything we were doing in the fall, and hopefully in the winter
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the stuff that developed, trying to make sure everybody out there is still feeling a part
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of this community.
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And we hope you all, whatever's keeping you back, if somebody needs vaccines, hopefully
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that will come quickly, and we hope to see you all as soon as possible.
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Coming back first day is always an interesting thing, you know, before it comes it's hard
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to really imagine kind of being here, uncertainty as to just how does all this go, because,
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you know, it's just like living life, right, it's hard to imagine what is the minute to
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minute, and, but you know, I come on campus and boom, stuff's happening, and, you know,
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the day gets full, it's really fun and amazing.
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So today is supposed to be Wondrous Wednesday, if I continue the stuff that I was doing in
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the fall, I think this isn't really the kind of topic I had in mind, but just it's wondrous
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that we are back here.
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You know, whether it's something to do with the seasons, sunlight, vaccines, effective
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social distancing finally, exhausting of the population who was going to get the stuff,
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I don't know, but the numbers have come down tremendously to allow us to finally come back
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in person, you know, we think safely, and I think that's a pretty good wonder, something
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really wondrous to behold.
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So yeah, we're back, we are back, and hopefully we will not have to shut down again, there's
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no particular reason why we expect things to go back up, there are some buyers variants,
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but so far it hasn't been spiking things, so let's just hope that continues and we can
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stay in person for the rest of the year, and next year will be a full normal year, let's
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just keep our fingers crossed and hope that's the case, because it's been a hard year, as
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I think we all know, but the sun is shining, and the day is young.
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That's everything, I don't remember if I had a call out, a call off sign, what was it,
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I guess just, see you later, talk to you later, I don't know, have a good one.