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This week, I went on a group outing with my team of technical writers. We volunteered at a food bank, which was pretty fun, where we packed bags of frozen pasta with green beans and carrots into boxes for shipment. There were some people from Farmer's Insurance and some fourth graders there; together we packed over 4,000 pounds of food. It was pretty fun, and I got to try all the different parts of the packing process.

Afterwards we went to a place called Pizza Schmizza, where we waited forever for our pizzas. All in all, it was pretty nice and I learned some interesting new things about my coworkers, one of whom (D) had done all kinds of interesting jobs -- like juggling fire at a circus, or learning to restore old cars.

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At the library today, they had a little display with all these different cuttings of roses. There was a little pile of printouts with instructions on caring for roses, too. They also had a Volunteering Fair. I got the pamphlet with the names of all the organizations, but there were so many people and lots of booths where you were supposed to talk to volunteers. Being a shut-in weirdo, I naturally avoided all of this and walked out, but I may be able to figure out a good place to volunteer by looking up the groups later.



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