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Kismet

About Me

Born out of an extreme need to do good, and hippie parents, I focus my altruism on children and the environment. I want everyone to know that they can be awesome, and there are lots of ways to do so.

Some of my favorite awesome bits:

* Making something for someone

* Picking up trash

* Using less stuff

* Walking or biking instead of driving

* Teaching kids awesome things (there are lots, both of kids and awesome things to teach)

* Using Amelie as a verb

* Recycling, both at home and work

I carry a backpack which hold a great number of useful superhero things, like:
-change (to pay other people's meters when they're about to run out of time) -alcohol-based hand sanitizer (it does the trick without promoting bacteria resistance) -a trash bag (you never know when there's trash to be picked up, and no rubbish bin in sight) -snacks (good for diabetic crises and grumpy superheros)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Fellow superheros
The Lorax
A narwhale
..

My Blog

Media coverage

As I am a librarian in real life, I took to Google to find out who's covered our event. (For those of you interested, I went to news.google.com, then typed in the keywords [real life super hero new yo...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:03:00 GMT

Home from Superheros Anonymous

It was indeed a super day on Sunday when I travelled to New York City to participate in the Superheros Anonymous ... conference.I still haven't recouperated from the drive home (left the Super afterpa...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:07:00 GMT

First Patrol

Tonight I went out with Civitron for my first patrol. Our main goal was to be a presence, and we'd pick up litter and brainstorm on the way. Secret City seems to have an infamous reputation, but the d...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:10:00 GMT

Brainstorm

(hey, that would make a good superhero name)I was driving through the fall leaves, and thinking about other ways to be awesome. It occurred to me that I really wanted to go rake someone's yard. I mean...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:44:00 GMT

I cant describe that altruistic feeling

In my civilian life, I work with children. This week, I had the opportunity to talk to a second grade class studying 'responsibility'. What a ... responsibility.I decided to narrow the focus to commun...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:11:00 GMT