{"id":2381,"date":"2008-09-30T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2008-09-30T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T06:33:07","slug":"california-coastal-cleanup-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"California Coastal Cleanup 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

For whatever reason, I loved participated in cleanups. It wasn’t just cleaning up…but I always knew that my (generous) volunteering was often rewarded with foods and gifts. I remember as a kid I would clean up Berkeley Aquatic Park annually. I always hoped to find needles, but instead I always found stinky empty plastic bags.<\/p>\n

So of course in my altruistic spirit, I persuaded my partner in crime to participate in the California Coastal Cleanup Day<\/a>. Bright and early, we headed down to a nearby reservoir where a large group was dispersed over the park.<\/p>\n

Let’s go to the most remote area<\/i>, I said!<\/p>\n

I had a few objectives:<\/p>\n

  • find a dead body<\/li>\n
  • pick up as much trash as possible (and beating that family of giddy preteens)<\/li>\n
  • hunt in an undeveloped area<\/li>\n
  • eat as much as possible from the thank you lunch<\/li>\n

    And I accomplished all four goals plus: leaving with 100+ mini-burrs on my pants (which I picked out individually for an hour), a sore leg from falling and sliding two feet on a dirt hill, finding not one but two dead bodies (*cough* bodies with feathers), finding a car bumper, accumulating bottles\/cans all the way from the 70s until the present, 10 rusted metal rings, stinky empty plastic bags, a tire that we could not pull out of the ground, Whole Foods paraphernalia, a $25 gift certificate to a local restaurant and full stomachs.<\/p>\n

    Ok and a selfless moment.<\/p>\n

    \"It's<\/a><\/p>\n

    \"The<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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