Monday funday. Whatever. I'm still on my philanthropic kick and tonight I'm going to an orientation about being a reader for the blind.I have some experience with this, just so you know. My job involves running a marketing program for Microsoft, and my Microsoft manager is legally blind. She worked in PR before she joined Microsoft, and on a regular basis, she amazes me and my boss. When I send her web site mockups to review, she sends me feedback. She uses Microsoft's text-to-voice feature to check emails and documents. She is on top of the messaging for the program. She's a professional. She lives in a four-story home and gets herself to and from work every day. Her attitude inspires me.
On the other hand, I know someone else who is legally blind. She wasn't born this way; she developed this over time. She runs a snack kiosk in Little Rock's capitol building. Her approach to life is not even close to the person I work with. She has a victim personality and I have no tolerance or respect for that. The lesson I've learned from knowing this person, working with my Microsoft counterpart and going to the orientation tonight is this: don't single people out because of their disability. They are people and have lots to contribute.
When I got home, I went for a 40-minute walk/run, which was according to the Galloway method.
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