Liz

to have you back on.

What are you going to be looking for in the president's address?

Let's show his approval.

He's nearly 43%.

He's the head of George W. Bush.

He's pacing Barack Obama.

What are you expecting tonight?

You did not like this speech at all.

Tell me why.

My name is Liz.

I'm 35.

I live in the Hudson Valley, New York, and I currently work in finance in civil service, local government.

At the time of this story, I was in a very different part of my life, coming off of living out in the woods and working on farming and permaculture.

Right after college, I was really inspired by the movie Into the Wild to take my backpack and go out into like the wilderness of the West, basically.

And I went to Colorado and California with just my backpack.

And I went to different...

farms or like off-grid permaculture communities at first woofing a worldwide opportunity for organic farmers or on organic farms and so I was like woofing for a little bit and my goal was to help the environment and to become as sustainable as possible.

I ended up also finding that like Buddhist retreat centers or like yoga ashrams were some of the places that would have a little garden that need attended.

And so they would let you stay there and sort of do like a live work experience.

So I had gone into that, into the wild experience with certain ideas in mind.