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[Price Armstrong]

i'm meeting with earl on tuesday at 12:30 for something else, but i could talk
to him about yellow/bikeshop integration then as well.

--Price

Quoting hmh04 at hampshire.edu:

> hey everybody,
>
> lindsay, kat, otis, and i had a spontaneous meeting tonight, for which i was
> still partially inebriated, but worked out some of the logistics for next
> semester. the main point being the need to build real community amongst bike
> friendly people both on hampshire campus and over at smith. community is kind
> of a bullshit term outside of summer camp, but we need to have regular
> interactions to build rewarding relationships and get yellow bikes back to
> the
> realm of species abundance and make people aware that they are back.
> personally, i really enjoyed the sunset ride,  which was actually a few of us
> just drinking pbr on bikes in the rain with smith kids and no sunset, but i
> think we should do it more often and make better friends with the bike
> kitchen
> girls. we're also thinking about having another barbecue in the end of the
> semester (which seems to already be upon us) if we're not all completely
> swamped. we have another couple hundred buckaroonies to spend and that would
> be
> a good use of half, with the rest going towards parts.
>
> we also want to meet with earl from the bike shop in the next couple days to
> try
> and integrate the bike shop and yellow bike program. apparently there are two
> work study positions available through yellow bike and two at the bike shop,
> one of which i believe is filled by price but i'm not sure, and if we could
> mesh completely there could be a space with yellow people where students
> could
> bring their own bikes to be worked on, which would really be killing two
> birds
> because all people seem to care about are their own bikes so we could satisfy
> those wants and secretly lure people into our amazing domain of fun work
> parties and yellow bikes at the same time. having an integrated system would
> allow us to help more people for longer hours in the week and get earl out of
> that stupid space in the rcc.
>
> there was also some talk about making some profit from yellow bike to enable
> some sort of summer program or community outreach, but i wasn't listening so
> we
> should return to this on thursday at 8(!)pm in the comfort of the upper rcc.
>
> kat is writing out the budget proposal tonight, which also happens to be
> lindsay's birthday if you missed that. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDSAY again, and
> everyone rest up, sleep tight, and drink lots of water because tomorrow is
> not
> actually a holiday.
>
> in mellow solidarity,
> hannah
>
> ps. i'm taking this opportunity to awkwardly announce at a safe electronic
> distance that the recent unfurling of drama amongst a select few yellers has
> got to go. so lets be open and get all the negativity out there so we can
> sort
> it out, bag it up with our gigantic phosphorescing magic stuff sacks, and
> toss
> it down stream. because it sucks.
>
> pps. this email is cowritten by my new cricket friend who apparently enjoys
> the
> warmth given off by my lap top and is quietly perched in front of the screen.
> he also thinks we should all make up and play nicey nice in the grease again.
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----
Price Armstrong

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