looking back

Starting Over Six Year Later – Community Service

6 Years. That is the amount of time I have invested in this rebirth, coming from the streets and working my way step by step, and over the posts. Just over half a decade to change your life, and it has not been easy, but it has been moving in the right direction. Since starting Portland state my time volunteering has been tracked with a couple outliers due to me not understanding the system or not caring to in the first couple months. I didn’t think it would amount to much then. I started my journey coming back 6 years ago and here are all the committees I have or currently been on.

PCC

Educational Advisory committee 09/22-24 (student representative 2 terms)

            Academic Policies and Standards (2 terms)

            Curriculum Committee (2 Terms)

            Degrees and Certificates Committee (2 Terms)

            Membership committee (2 Terms)

            Student Development committee (2 Terms)

ASPCC Executive Committee (23-24) (1 Term)

            Finance subcommittee (22-23) (1 Term) (Chair)

PCC Live to Drive Committee (23-24) (1 Term)

Earth Day Committee (22-24) (2 Terms)

Sustainability Committee (24-25) (1 Term)

            ADEC (25-26) Current 1 term

            CACC (25-26) Current 1 term

Washington County

Metzger Park Local Improvement District Advisory Board (22-24) (1 Term)            

Multnomah County

Disability Services Advisory Council (24-Current) (1 Term)

Council for Economic Dignity (24- Current) (1 term)

Department of County Assets Cbac (24-25) Changes in calculation merged these two

Department of County Management Cbac (24-25) (1 Term each)

DCA/DCM CBAC (25-current)                              

Central CBAC (2025) (1 Term) Co-Chair

Goose Hollow Foothills League

Elections Subcommittee (2024) (1 Term)

Trimet

Committee for Accessible Transportation (23-Current) (1 term)

                 Lift subcommittee (23-Current) Co-chair (1 Term)

SAGE

Leaders Action Board (2024-Current) (1 Term)

CHNW

Goose Hollow Tenant Council (2024) (Facilitator/Chair) (1 Term)

PSU

Student Legal Service Action Board (2024-2025) (Chair) (1 Term)

Student Media Service Action Board (2025) Stepped down to try for Editor

Legislative Scholar (2024-25) (1 Term)

District 4 Coalition

Land Use and Transportation (2025 – Current) (1 Term)

State of Oregon

Oregon Dsac – Multnomah County DSAC Rep (2025 – current) (1 term)

Now granted there is some funny paperwork, the cbacs actually had not been merged so I am by the paperwork in for both of them separately and the merged version. County code. 10 different groups. 30 Committees and sub committees for 37 terms and chairing 5 times

All of this shows up save for the PCC is seen in my work volunteering where since the start of the school year last year (September 24) I am looking at about 290 volunteer hours on top of being a double bachelor student.

I have helped make decisions in the school, advocate for handling business ourselves, got programs started and kept some under budget. Allowed people opportunities because of good decision making and all of this has been in six very seemingly short years.

I have competed in finance competitions; I have made the thousand-pound club in weightlifting with bum knees. I have written books, that people have read, not many obviously, but some have, and they enjoyed it. Looking back sometimes it’s odd how far you see the path behind you stretch and realize things may be in range if you give yourself some credit.

Just a thought.

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Nanowrimo Attempt 2014

So for those reading this I had tried to go and finish nanowrimo with nothing more then an old story a couple pages long and a wonder if I could. Between computer issues, personal issues and other things that made me lose my focus I got to just about 21,000 words. that does not make it a loss it just did not get to my goal in the time allotted so here are some things I learned about this so if any of my readers want to try it they are better equipped.

1. Basic outline – The easiest part of typing the story as far as I did was to take the pages and read them. Normally my writing is very rushed one to the next. Boom, boom, boom. Having an outline set allows you to have a basic form to go by and that form can change as you see fit but you would still at least have the knowledge of where thing a would connect to on thing b even if thing c and b don’t meet you can still make it in to a skeleton you like for your story.

2. Focus – Give yourself some time every day and leave yourself a note, write it in your schedule, give yourself a time where you can just sit down and write it out only coming out in the case of serious emergency or mob en route to your writing spot. In short let everything else go and just let it be.

3. Learn how you work – Often times each person has different things, little nuances that can make their own efforts easier or harder. Like me typing with my big ‘ole ham hands can be hard sometimes unless I either stretch or find a bigger key board which I don’t think exists in many places. Either way, knowing how you work and how to best play off the positives while hiding the negatives will make your writing time more breezy less enraging.

4. Go in with a vision – If it is to get rich selling books then that will be more on the problem of advertising and quality control which you can only do half of that while you write. If you want to finish a full novel as your goal then this is a great way to at least get a jump on it. If you do not do it in thirty days then you will have a major portion complete by the end of the month.

5. Finish the story – Even if you are serious about competing against the dead line then make sure you have everything needed nearby when you write. If you get down about not making the time limit then try to pick yourself up and finish the story. Because the worst thing you can do is leave the story half finished after you put so much work in it.

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