Diary of a Delegate: Caucus has Come and Gone

Sunday, April 13th....My day begin at 4am when I finally had a handle on my flyer for distribution at the Caucus at USC....Nikki, mother of Hannah (my son Ali's BF) took a look at my handy work on a program she offered to support me and the flyer process. I am a big fan of Microsoft Publisher for which I have created a newsletter/circular for shirts I used to sell. Let me back up, I was struggling with Nikki's program, but for the purposes of a campaign flyer her program turned to out to be easier.

After using one of my shiny forehead pictures from Spring Break in NY and fighting the Snap Viewer crop tool to crop it. I was almost ready. I put in text and by just after 6am I was done, but desperate like I am right now for a little sleep. I laid down and got back up and was out the door at or before 7:15am. Fed EX Knko's has a wonderful 24 hur location near Nikki's apt, but the computers are sooooo slow and then all of the USB drives weren't working. I was being charged .25/min but that can grow fast and between slow a** printers and slow a** computers I was just fit to be tied. I was in a rush and every minute actually counted.

I was back at Nikki's soon and I dressed Ali and bathed myself....We packed up our goog gobs of laundry that I did the night before and set off for the Friendship Center for a meeting....came home to another special meeting ....the attendees of my meeting wished me well for the caucus...Ali ate and we went out to the car and then he had to pee pee and boo boo and I had forgotten my cell phone which I had charging because my day would be sunk without it...Nikki and Hannah assured me they would come to USC and though unable to vote would support my endeavor...Wilma Kiel my aunt also assured me she would come out to vote (and she did) and so at about 1:20p instead 1:00pm mind racing, nerves fazzled ... Ali and I were off to USC with my pile of 40 dollar flyers ....black and white and color....side bar...color is expensive and I already couldn't afford it and so I made some color and more black & white and btw brought at least half back home....

well I have to get Ali and go to work...I was out on Friday ...but today is Monday and we have staff meetings and I was on the phone too much yesterday which I realize I am on the phone toomuch a lot so I am working on that....my second mom reminded me while on Christmas vacation ..."he is only acting out to get your attention" ... he voice rings in my head and I am beseiged with guilt all the time but I am working on balance and freedom (I stole that from Algebra Bassett's bio) ....but balance means I must make his lunch and his break fst right now as well as get out our toothbrushes.....with 35 mninutes before we must get out of here...I will pick with the details of sunday and hopefully add the pictures of the day which I have updated my space and facebook with

to be continued



danna aka djdannak

Diary of a Delegate: T'was the Night Before a Delegate Caucus

Not a creature was stirring not even....well this candidate for the 33rd Congressional District Caucus in Los Angeles, CA was up doing laundry and designing a flyer to give out tomorrow at USC while campaigning and caucusing for votes...I must be in Denver in August !!!!

Barack Obama must be named the Democratic Nominee and win the General Election in November...I will help him do it !!!!

My name is Danna Kiel and this is my first personal post to my blog spot....time is an amazing thing and I feel like I never have any. I am a full time teacher living here in Los Angeles, CA. While working as a full time Math Teacher I am also a full time Single Mother of a beautiful almost 6 year old son named Ali Daniel.

I am currently running to be a District Delegate for Obama to the Democratic National Convention from the 33rd Congressional District here in California. What a journey this has been? I have been keeping some video diaries which I wanted to upload to You Tube so we could count down together, but no time .... Tomorrow is however D-Day. So let the Caucuses begin....lining up starts at 2:00p at USC's Seely Mudd Hall. I am moving on to making a flyer as the sandman is dragging my eyes shut !!!!

The desire for self expression never rests. I ended up on the blog spot because I have chosen a new picture....a more recent picture of myself. The B & W attached to my profile was taken almost 6 years ago when Ali (my son) was 6 weeks old and I had just cut my hair back off from having grown dreadlocks for just over a year. I am beginning to feel guilty about the compliments regarding the maintenance of my youth. I am thinking "let's use the most current pic...not a 5 year old one".

While on Spring Break in NY I took pictures with the intention of updating facebook, myspace and even my blogtalkradio profiles anyway ...so no time like the present....

Ali will be 6 years old in April 25th and though God has blessed me to maintain a youthful spirit, beauty or in this case youthful good looks are in the eye of the beholder and so with this new picture...you guys behold....and do the math on approximately how old I am and you will see why I am spoiled by comments like "You look the same as when we entered Tuskegee ('86)"

Over the last few days I have done a tremendous amount of electronic campaigning and doing this blog while enriching my life is an electronic campaigning avenue....

From deadline last Wednesday April 2nd to today....Saturday night/Sunday morn the night before/day of ....it has cranked up from 0 to 60 in terms of campaining and getting the word out....so other than just being a proud american, a proud single parent and striving for excellence in the classroom... I would just say vote for me.....I am one of you ....I AM BEACUSE WE ALL ARE (Booker T. Wahington)