ASUCD Retreat - Tahoe
So this weekend I went on the ASUCD Leadership retreat to Tahoe. Then I came back and wrote this entry. Then after it was nearly done I tried to click back to it from an aol dialogue box, accidentally hitting "livejournal FAQ," which opened a new page, and the whole entry was lost. I am now in a very very bad mood. You will now get the I-already-wrote-this-once version. )=Nadia and Shemek (a third unitrans manager was with us as well).
"We should seperate the driver from the rest of us so we're all technically in the trunk and can drink!" - Elections Committee Chair Mary Ball. Needless to say, we drank anyway.*
There were 16 people on the bus up. The politicians and government officers chatted happily, while the commercial unit managers sat in awkward silence.
Up at tahoe we had three condoes, declared the main one, the quiet one, and the late night one. I of course immediately declared sovreignty over the loft of the latter.
That first night we all partied like whoa. It was pretty cool. Chief of Staff Behzad (last name?) is a party animal. Then we went to the hot-tub. Security chased us out but told us we should go to the more secluded one at the other end of the complex. Yea. "what happens in the hot-tub STAYS in the hot-tub" Unfortunately some keys stayed in the hot tub as well...
After walking back, Public Opinion Polls Committee chair Russ Fagely realized he had lost his wallet. Simulteniously I realized I had lost a key. So we retraced our steps.. eventually found a key in the hot-tub. It was for building 483 though and I was definitely in 484. Psha on that. Russ eventually tracked down his wallet.. and eventually I discovered that I had in fact originally been given a 483 key. So it all fit together.
The next day we did various team-building excercises most of the day. A large flow chart of the ASUCD heirarchy was unveiled ("now you can see how we're all connected... OTHER than on friendster.com!" -ASUCD President Sara Henry).. and it was prominently missing the Supreme Court!! I immediately got another peice of butcher paper, wrote "STUDENT COURT" really big with sharpie, and put it in the approprate position (level with "senate" and "president" on the top level).
I was very very disappointed to learn that "ASUCD Refridgeration Services" does NOT operate vast room-sized industrial walk-in refridgerators at some secret location on campus. Vice President Kalen Gallagher agreed with me that they SHOULD do this, stating "I sense a senate bill coming up!"
We also had a workshop on "diversity training." "how many of you have been professionally objectified for money."
That night the prevailing opinion was that we should go to the casinos to eat, and then come back and proceed with the getting drizunk. That turned into gamble until we're seated at the restaurant in harrahs, eat, and eventually gamble the rest of the night. I don't gamble, so this wasn't my preferred turn of events.
A few of us managed to pass the time beforehand by searching for alcohol. The casino of course had some.. at an exorbitant price. Finally we found a gas station two blocks down that was fully stocked (As opposed to the closer one with none), and Jenna in her frenzy for alcohol didn't even see the large "alcohol liscense suspended!" signs. No alcohol there for us. Finally we found some at a grocery store a little further on.
After we ate I managed to escape the casinos before too long. But not before the somewhat drunk manager of Special Transportation Services (STS) and Tipsy Taxi asked me: "I'm sorry if I'm a bit blunt right now but... you dress different from everyone else, don't you." I don't know I thought that was funny.
So yea. KDVS Director Teresa, executive staff Event Coordinator Jenna Zelman and I caught a shuttle back to central control. Teresa went to bed immediately and Jenna and I watched TV till ASUCD Controller Jon Avidor returned at like 2am. Then I went back to my place and went to sleep. At 4am everyone else got back, and unitrans Planning and Marketing Manager Shemek Pawlik came up to tell me everyone was drinking. I actually considered joining them briefly before rolling over and going to sleep.
Events Sunday were cancelled because too many people had left. Of probably 40+ people at the workshops on Saturday, only around 18 survived till Sunday morning. We never did find out what happened to the mysterious Mark Champaign, secret overlord of ASUCD. We slept in a bit, then Russ Fagely and I watched the end of Red October on TV, we all packed up and fled. The End.
*Please see the disclaimer in my info. Anything that appears to be illegal is without exception completely fictional.