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I'm a health writer and editor for nbcnews.com and today.com. I live in Seattle, and, yes, it DOES rain that much here.
I tweet things here.
Interests include running, reading, traveling and pictures of my cat.
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I just started volunteering for this awesome non-profit called The World Is Fun, which seeks to introduce 20- and 30-somethings to the volunteering scene. (Isn’t that just the greatest name? Those four words pretty much summarize my worldview.) I’m on the newly-formed social media team, and I’ll be helping to revamp and run the blog.
I just wrote my first post, about my adventures volunteering at Hopscotch, a beer-and-scotch fest in Fremont over the weekend. Check it out!
This Saturday, my gentlemanfriend and I volunteered as beer-pourer-people at HopScotch, Fremont’s annual spring beer and scotch festival that benefits theSeattle International Film Festival. I was manning the Lagunitas station, pouring an IPA and an American Strong Ale called WTF. (Some people demurely called the ale by its full name, Wilco Tango Foxtrot, others giddily asked for the acronym — and a few straightforward folks looked me in the eye and said simply, “What the f—.”)
Now, I know my way around a beer fest — but I’d never been on the other side of the tap. For you, dear Internet strangers, I’ve come up with three things I learned on Saturday, should you ever wish to volunteer at a similar fest. (And you should!)
