Red X Opportunity

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Registered members of Red X will have already received information about this in an email but I thought I'd post it here as well.

Efforts in San Diego to do reconstruction after the earthquake have been on-going but things are going too slowly. So the Red Cross has sent out a call to its members asking for a donation of time and hard-work. Because Xavier's Spring Break is next week and we have such a stronghold of Red X members here, they'd asked us to come and help out.

I won't lie to you, it's going to be a lot of hard work. It's a chance to help people though and I think we can all get behind that.

Talk to any of the Red X members here for information on how to get involved.

Comments

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I just got that email. I am down for that. Means I am gonna be like, travling' Kyle all that week and the next but pfft, I can handle a couple of more hours on a plane.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Are you going Terry? I guess so, if you got that email. I think I'll go and drag Kevin along for the ride.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Absolutely am. I'm still upset that I had to miss the last with that horrible flu.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Good. Hopefully we can work together. I should have brought you some soup. I'm a bad friend.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Aye, so you are. But I had drugs and that helped.

[x-leosamson.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be at a conference at UCLA from Thursday to Sunday, but I'd be very interested in helping out at the beginning of the week.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

You're a champion for making a man feel guilty.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Bobby says the same thing.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

A woman of many talents. Tell Bobby I said hi. I'll send him a sympathy card later.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

He's not speaking to me right now because I picked San Diego for break over going home to see him. I'm a terrible wife.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't speak to you either if you did that to me!...And if you had a sex change. But that would be scary.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

I will be there. I was there with Red X last time, and I believe that I should go this time as well. I think I will be much more helpful this time, too.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

You would so forgive me if I had a sex change. I'm smoking hot.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Hot and bothered now.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

See, told you.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be the red hair that does it. Not prettier but ya, pretty all the same. But you know what? This is getting weird.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

I think that means I win again.

[x-icarus.livejournal.com]

Only made to think you win.

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'm in.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

I wish I was up for that sort of work, but I suspect my wife would probably kill me. I got enough things thrown at my head when I went out to help with the blizzard while I was still recovering from pneumonia.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

Of course, your wife is not the only redhead who would be... less than pleased with you, shall we say, should you once again attempt to overexert yourself, especially if you end up harmed in the process.

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

That sounds really cool and all, but I don't think I can go right now. I got talked into taking a couple of classes I really shouldn't have bothered with, and now I have to pay the price and study.

[xp_daytripper]

I'm out, this time around - broken San Diego messed with my powers enough last time and I'm not up for the migraine again.

[x-firestar.livejournal.com]

Got the email, I'm already starting to pack for it. :D Hee, I'll be on the right side of the country again! Just, well, further south...

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

I will be there. Tommy, this could be the good thing for you, too?

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

You and I had the same thought, Yvette.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

Dear Terry,

I thought about it, but no. I don't *do* manual labour. Still, I hope you all have fun!

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Pity, you'd actually have been of some use.

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

It is, how you say? Great minds?

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Now he's going to be cranky at us both. And he'll cave twice as fast.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I would have been, but I just can't ... oh, hell, why not? I don't want to work on that stats paper and there's some decent beaches around there. I probably skive off on most of the work, anyway.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

You never know, you might find it rewarding in other ways too.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

I get a cookie if I come? Or is this some kind of metaphorical helping people makes you feel good thing?

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Not metaphorical, biological.

But yes, I'll give you a cookie if you come.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

Biological? Really? Do explain.

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

It's all evolution and social engineering. You help others for the good of the tribe, etc. Selfishness isn't sustainable over historical time, so we've been slowly re-wired to find pleasure in assisting others.

There was an article or something we read in one of my classes. If I have time, I'll hunt it down for you. In the simplest terms, helping others helps you.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

Huh. That sounds kind of nifty. But doesn't it only apply to people whose wellbeing immediately impacts on you? SanDiego doesn't have any impact on my life at all.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Your evolutionary hard-wiring doesn't care about who you're helping. It's just meat.

[x-m.livejournal.com]

Are you sure about that? Because I think my little lizard reptile brain would be more interested in people it knows, since other people are more likely to try to eat its food.

[x-cloudy.livejournal.com]

In, in, in, in, in! Also, I don't think I've ever been to California.

[x-rictor.livejournal.com]

I would like to go.

[x-kaminari.livejournal.com]

~Translated from Japanese~

It's a chance to help people though and I think we can all get behind that.

Or not. No one's threatening to get me deported, means I don't have to pretend to care.

~Translated from Japanese~