Ad Hoc Promotion and Production Committee
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dragonlady7Bwahaha. Washington Post, Getting an F in Biology
I enjoyed this article but what's she complaining about? F? Pff. I miss being an F. It's a fun letter to be. F is funny. FF is bad enough, but G tips over the line into where people ask you if it's a real bra size or not. And when you convert it to American sizes and it's an H or an I or something? It's sort of not funny anymore...
Another store to cross, pre-emptively, off my list, then. Fuckaz.
Anyhow. Enough about my boobs. Z says I go on too much about my boobs. This observation has wounded my pride. But can I help it? They precede me everywhere I go.
Last night at practice we sat around and discussed our feelings, which was fun. But then, after I had actually gone out to my car to leave, I was called back inside, and informed that I was part of the Ad-Hoc Promotions And Production Committee that was going to run the last two bouts of the season, and I had a lot of work to do.
Which is what I wanted to do, surely, and it's very heartening to have A Committee With An Imposing Name to work with. I'm actually pretty damn excited about that.
I was also informed that Z is on this committee, which amused him when I told him about it this morning. (I couldn't tell him last night, as he was in bed, as I didn't get home until half-past midnight.)
We are at a really important point in the league's formation. We're established enough now that the newness has worn off, the post-newness slump is passing, and we're realizing that we have something very cool going on here, very nearly under its own momentum. But we're also at that point in any volunteer organization's life where we're starting to be able to tell who is reliable and who isn't-- the General Manager and co-co-founder has been trying from the beginning to delegate responsibilities, but the difficulty is that someone always says, "I'll do it!" and then three out of four times, doesn't-- and it all comes right back to the GM, who told her to do it, and now looks like an idiot because it isn't done. This is not to say anything against the volunteers who got in over their heads and couldn't actually perform the tasks demanded-- I fall squarely into this category. The problem is that nobody knew who was capable of what. And I couldn't, previously, volunteer for anything and have any expectation of actually performing, because I was such a mediocre athlete that I had to focus every mote of my energy and time on just getting my actual skating skills up to par, so as not to disappoint my team.
Now, suddenly, I find myself competent. Great! And I also find myself largely unemployed. Actually, that's also great.
So... We'll see how I do. I'm off to write a press release.
This would all be a lot easier if people would send me some damn photos, though.
I enjoyed this article but what's she complaining about? F? Pff. I miss being an F. It's a fun letter to be. F is funny. FF is bad enough, but G tips over the line into where people ask you if it's a real bra size or not. And when you convert it to American sizes and it's an H or an I or something? It's sort of not funny anymore...
Because even the Nordstrom Lady had only one in my new size.
My size turned out to be 34F. Yes, efffff. You may draw it out slowly if you wish, an extended fricative for maximum comedic effect.
Another store to cross, pre-emptively, off my list, then. Fuckaz.
Anyhow. Enough about my boobs. Z says I go on too much about my boobs. This observation has wounded my pride. But can I help it? They precede me everywhere I go.
Last night at practice we sat around and discussed our feelings, which was fun. But then, after I had actually gone out to my car to leave, I was called back inside, and informed that I was part of the Ad-Hoc Promotions And Production Committee that was going to run the last two bouts of the season, and I had a lot of work to do.
Which is what I wanted to do, surely, and it's very heartening to have A Committee With An Imposing Name to work with. I'm actually pretty damn excited about that.
I was also informed that Z is on this committee, which amused him when I told him about it this morning. (I couldn't tell him last night, as he was in bed, as I didn't get home until half-past midnight.)
We are at a really important point in the league's formation. We're established enough now that the newness has worn off, the post-newness slump is passing, and we're realizing that we have something very cool going on here, very nearly under its own momentum. But we're also at that point in any volunteer organization's life where we're starting to be able to tell who is reliable and who isn't-- the General Manager and co-co-founder has been trying from the beginning to delegate responsibilities, but the difficulty is that someone always says, "I'll do it!" and then three out of four times, doesn't-- and it all comes right back to the GM, who told her to do it, and now looks like an idiot because it isn't done. This is not to say anything against the volunteers who got in over their heads and couldn't actually perform the tasks demanded-- I fall squarely into this category. The problem is that nobody knew who was capable of what. And I couldn't, previously, volunteer for anything and have any expectation of actually performing, because I was such a mediocre athlete that I had to focus every mote of my energy and time on just getting my actual skating skills up to par, so as not to disappoint my team.
Now, suddenly, I find myself competent. Great! And I also find myself largely unemployed. Actually, that's also great.
So... We'll see how I do. I'm off to write a press release.
This would all be a lot easier if people would send me some damn photos, though.
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 03:19 pm (UTC)You do something new every day with the QCRG.
At the moment I'm just trying to figure out how to scrape together the cash for a color laser printer. Don't suppose the league wants to buy me one.
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:33 pm (UTC)I keep telling Sweets we should get a button-maker for the league. If we get a color printer, we can totally make buttons ourselves. Hmmmm.. maybe you can talk Sweets into it, lol.
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:37 pm (UTC)I don't know who else is in it. This is just the ad-hoc committee. I think if we can attract more people to it, we'll have a less-ad-hoc committee.
Sweets mentioned the button maker. Jason said, "If you buy it, then you will be the button maker for the league. Did you have any other plans?"
"Shit," Sweets said, "I don't have time for that."
So the button maker has, at the moment, been tabled. But. We'll be considering it. We need a budget.