From the Belly of Tax Season
Posted in The Life of the Historian on 02/04/2010 12:30 pm by RonnicaWhat, a new post on the Ignorant Historian? I must admit, I never thought that the tax season would swallow me whole as it has. I had those three days of much-needed relaxation, and then I’ve had three crazy days of taxes…and it’s just the beginning. Until April 15th, I’ll have little free computer time. Not that it’s a BAD thing…I love what I’m doing and I still have time for other priorities, but unfortunately blogging seems far down that list.
I don’t WANT to quit this blog, but at this moment, I can’t think of what to say. I prefer to hold to a if-you-don’t-have-anything-to-say-don’t-blog philosophy, but clearly this post goes against that idea.
I do have a couple ideas for meaningful posts rolling around in my head. Hopefully, I’ll be able to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, really) to share those posts with you in the next week(s).
Perhaps you could help me out, though…what would YOU want me to blog about? I need some help to get back into a blogging mindset!
Thanks each and every one of you for taking the time to read this here blog. Your comments have been encouraging even when I haven’t had the time to let you know that.

Today’s a big day for our organization, as I’ll have over 20 volunteers under my oversight. They’ll be stuffing packets for our tax clients county-wide, and a few long-term volunteers will start the new season of tax preparation. We’re a non-profit, and much of what we do would not be possible without volunteers. Their time is invaluable to us, because if they didn’t volunteer, it would cost us thousands of dollars more to run our programs, thousands we do not have. Simply put: without volunteers, we wouldn’t offer the free services we do.






So, as you walk into the bathroom, you see this large-ish anteroom. It’s the size of a standard bedroom, and at least twice as big as the actual bathroom. I’m not sure if this is how it was originally designed, but it doesn’t really make sense today. There’s not even a chair or anything, so it’s really a useless room (not that I want to sit in the bathroom, anyway).
I had a hard time taken a picture of the whole bathroom just because it’s so small. This was my best attempt.
And these are the sinks. I never thought I’d say this, but they’re actually too short for me. I can’t imagine what it’d be like if you were actually normal height (I’m only 5′3″).
And these are the lovely tile floors. They just look so cold to me.


