Yeah, so I've had one or two weeks of meetings. Meetings. Meetings. And more meetings. So I'm a little meeting-ed-out. So meeting-ed-out, I volunteered to do the airport run tomorrow morning so some of the meeting attendees can get back to their respective places. Normally, I'm not really into airport runs. Especially those that require me to leave before I've finished my breakfast. But maleesh (oh well, sorry, too bad), I'm so desperate to get off the compound and do something a little different. Even if it means fighting through the crowds in the hot, stuffy, bat-smelly airport!
So that's what I'm doing tomorrow morning. Then I will hopefully get around to doing all the work that I haven't been able to do whilst meeting all these weeks!
Actually, the meetings weren't as bad as I feared. I actually learned a lot about Robert's Rules of Order and about the Carver model of governance. Good thing I learned a few things, because I was elected as the secretary for the next round of these meetings, to be held again in 6 months! At least I have a bit of a clue of what's going on now that I've sat in on a few days of them. It's hard to be one of 5 people making decisions about the governance of our organization in this country when I really don't quite know the system myself. But, I'm willing to learn something new, I guess. Though I have to admit, I found it really hard to concentrate at times on the whole discussion about the financial policies. We have a treasurer who has spent lots of time figuring these things out... I figured I'd just go along with his recommendation, rather than trying to figure out the financial policies of the branch in 2 hours or less!
Anyways, I gotta go turn off the generator and get ready for my airport run tomorrow morning.
By the way, I haven't lost all my charm, apparently. I was bemoaning the fact that I haven't had a single marriage proposal in over 3 months! But today, when I went to buy my bananas at the market (I had to lead an expidition of those leaving tomorrow to the market to buy their pineapples!), I got a marriage proposal. I'm glad I haven't lost my touch - I was starting to get worried there for a while :)
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I really enjoyed learning Carver. There are some good links online that can fill you in a bit more. When it works, you feel stupid for having done things the hard way for so many years.
And @ asks me to marry him on a nearly daily basis- its the measure I use for being a good mommy.
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