Complete Stoke

I'm not gonna lie. I was having a bummer day today. Life was frustrating. (By the way, if an attorney in the Portland area happens to read this, post a comment with your contact info and we'll sue the crap out of this town for discrimination.) I finished my classes and I had to go to a meeting with the student-run creative agency I joined. I've never really done anything for them and today was the same. Except today, after the meeting, I had to go to another meeting with a potential client that certain members of the group groan about. By now, it's 7pm and I've been at school since 7am, so I honestly wasn't looking forward to it. But once I got there, everything turned around.

The person I met with was this dude named Ryan and he has this rad nonprofit called Complete Skate. For anyone who likes skateboarding or tutoring, and has any time to give, volunteer for with this cause. Basically, it's a tutoring program for kids punished by forces they can't control. It's different from other tutoring programs, because besides tutoring, a bunch a skaters volunteer and teach them how to skate. This program is blowing up. I sat and listened for a while and just continued to get more and more amped on helping this program. There's all sort of sponsors throwing him equipment and money, but he just needs some help. If I can help Ryan just a little bit, it will be cool. But I'm stoked, and I'm going to try to help this dude out as much as possible. Who knows, maybe one day there will be a Complete Shred?!

Oh yeah. I got home and my beautiful gf had some homemade meatloaf waiting! Mmmm, Mmmm! Keep their heads ringin'!