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Sunday is a day to recognize, honor, and celebrate decay–through restoration, through cleaning. | Sunday is a day to recognize, honor, and celebrate decay–through restoration, through cleaning. | ||
== Sundays == | |||
Sunday is a good time to clean the natural decay. We are a social bunch, racuous and merry. There are great movie nights and social hours in the wee hours of Friday and Saturday, plus man visitors come. Sunday is a good time to pick up the happy burrito wrappers, the old beer bottles (to be reused and turned into SudoMate or Subilr!), scraps of paper to be recycled, and stale take-out food to be composted. | |||
== Themed Cleaning Nights == | |||
Sometimes we theme our cleaning nights. We had a French New Wave theme where we urged people to come dressed as a Godard film actor or actress. | |||
Sometimes people bring great heaping dishes of yummy food for a common "let's eat while we clean" glorious dinner. | |||
== Benefits == | == Benefits == | ||
What's in it for you? | What's in it for you? We know you're a nice person but isn't cleaning pretty boring? | ||
* Sometimes we clean and we're dancing while we do it. We listen to Erasure or even hug. I'm not joking--I have (encrypted, private, non public) videos to show it. just ask us. These things do happen. | * Sometimes we clean and we're dancing while we do it. We listen to Erasure or even hug. I'm not joking--I have (encrypted, private, non public) videos to show it. just ask us. These things do happen. | ||
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* You get a really nice overview of projects that other people are working on that have nothing to do with what you are doing. If you usually program in Python but never touch the biohacking equipment, it's good to just go near and understand what's there. You also learn that some things are sensitive for the biohacking projects that aren't so sensitive for other things--that biohacking projects are easily contaminated, that they have to remain at a certain temperature. | * You get a really nice overview of projects that other people are working on that have nothing to do with what you are doing. If you usually program in Python but never touch the biohacking equipment, it's good to just go near and understand what's there. You also learn that some things are sensitive for the biohacking projects that aren't so sensitive for other things--that biohacking projects are easily contaminated, that they have to remain at a certain temperature. | ||
* You become aware of resources that are there that nobody at the space realized was there. Someone might be doing a sewing workshop the next day but not realize that there are two gigantic bags of fabric scraps in the back room. | * You become aware of resources that are there that nobody at the space realized was there. Someone might be doing a sewing workshop the next day but not realize that there are two gigantic bags of fabric scraps in the back room. Someone who did cleaning Sunday night might tip someone giving a class the next day that those scraps of fabric are there... ! | ||
* By cleaning you get agency and more personal motivation to do things in the space, to move things around and make them more useful to members and visitors. | * By cleaning you get agency and more personal motivation to do things in the space, to move things around and make them more useful to members and visitors. | ||