Friday, March 5, 2010

Laughing in the face of chaos

Sometimes I just have to laugh at how non-profits scrabble and make things work without a lot of money.

We say that we can't afford to buy a top of the line drill so we buy a cheap one and it takes a staff member an hour to drill one hole in our concrete wall because the drill is so weak.
The stove legs are uneven so we have an old textbook under one leg to stabilize it.
There's been a huge hole in the wall in the women's bathroom for months as we gradually get the plumbing fixed.

Not to mention all of the random things that go along with nonprofit chaos...right now I have a plastic iguana sitting on my coworker's desk looking at me from a recent pile of donations that no one knows what to do with!

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