Miscellany
It's 7:17 in the morning. And I'm at work. Without coffee. Grrr.
I hate to say this, as I normally love the holiday season, but I am so over holiday parties. I feel like I've been to thousands of them and still have a few to go. White elephants. Been to about a million. I'm done. They've been fun, don't get me wrong, I'm just . . .I'm not an elbow rubber, you know? I was at this holiday party for our hotline advocates last night, and I hung out with staff people all night, mingling with advocates sometimes, but mostly shooting the shit with the executive director and canvass director and my cohort, Mercy. Which really isn't a terrible way to spend an evening, all things considered.
We're putting on a production of the Vagina Monologues and I'm having all kinds of angst about it. I've had problems with the peice for a long time, but being responsible for putting it on makes me look at it with an even more critical eye. And not being in complete creative control (one of our volunteers is heading it up) makes me even more nervous. I think we have a responsibility to do the show with class and make it culturally sensitive and there's a lot of analysis that hasn't been done around a lot of different issues (race, class, gender identity etc.) Sometimes, and this week especially, it feels like an uphill battle.
But, I am excited about it. When I'm not on-call, I'm trying to get involved in some non-crisisy things and this fits the bill, although I am reminded that I couldn't be theatre people all the time, and that moving away from that profession was the right decision for me. But it's fun to dip a toe in from time to time, and I think this has the potential to be done really really right and could be a fun, progressive, empowering, educating night that could potentially benifit us in a lot of ways, outreach and financially. Which is cool.
I'm on committees coming out my ears though. Two event planning committees, two anti oppression committees, one of which I'm co chairing. My work buddy Crystal and I joke that we should just share offices because we're on so many of these committees together. And if there were an office big enough to house Mercy, Crystal and me, I totally would. That'd be awesome. Yesterday, from the second I walked in the door until like, 3:30 I was in meetings. Doesn't that sound important and grown up? "I was in meetings all day yesterday". Heh. It's not. It was crazy not to have checked my e-mail or voice mail until like 4 yesterday.
Tomorrow night, I have a gargantuan task. We do holiday gift giving for some of our clients, and this year that's about sixty people, but tomorrow night, Mercy and I have to wrap them. All of them. And I don't think that'll be tons of fun. Mercy said that last year she didn't give anyone in her personal life gifts wrapped because she was so sick of doing it, so I've already wrapped my gifts.
And next week is a short week(I cannot BELIEVE we're almost through December already.) So, uh, happy holidays and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you that I haven't seen in a while soon!
I hate to say this, as I normally love the holiday season, but I am so over holiday parties. I feel like I've been to thousands of them and still have a few to go. White elephants. Been to about a million. I'm done. They've been fun, don't get me wrong, I'm just . . .I'm not an elbow rubber, you know? I was at this holiday party for our hotline advocates last night, and I hung out with staff people all night, mingling with advocates sometimes, but mostly shooting the shit with the executive director and canvass director and my cohort, Mercy. Which really isn't a terrible way to spend an evening, all things considered.
We're putting on a production of the Vagina Monologues and I'm having all kinds of angst about it. I've had problems with the peice for a long time, but being responsible for putting it on makes me look at it with an even more critical eye. And not being in complete creative control (one of our volunteers is heading it up) makes me even more nervous. I think we have a responsibility to do the show with class and make it culturally sensitive and there's a lot of analysis that hasn't been done around a lot of different issues (race, class, gender identity etc.) Sometimes, and this week especially, it feels like an uphill battle.
But, I am excited about it. When I'm not on-call, I'm trying to get involved in some non-crisisy things and this fits the bill, although I am reminded that I couldn't be theatre people all the time, and that moving away from that profession was the right decision for me. But it's fun to dip a toe in from time to time, and I think this has the potential to be done really really right and could be a fun, progressive, empowering, educating night that could potentially benifit us in a lot of ways, outreach and financially. Which is cool.
I'm on committees coming out my ears though. Two event planning committees, two anti oppression committees, one of which I'm co chairing. My work buddy Crystal and I joke that we should just share offices because we're on so many of these committees together. And if there were an office big enough to house Mercy, Crystal and me, I totally would. That'd be awesome. Yesterday, from the second I walked in the door until like, 3:30 I was in meetings. Doesn't that sound important and grown up? "I was in meetings all day yesterday". Heh. It's not. It was crazy not to have checked my e-mail or voice mail until like 4 yesterday.
Tomorrow night, I have a gargantuan task. We do holiday gift giving for some of our clients, and this year that's about sixty people, but tomorrow night, Mercy and I have to wrap them. All of them. And I don't think that'll be tons of fun. Mercy said that last year she didn't give anyone in her personal life gifts wrapped because she was so sick of doing it, so I've already wrapped my gifts.
And next week is a short week(I cannot BELIEVE we're almost through December already.) So, uh, happy holidays and I'm looking forward to seeing some of you that I haven't seen in a while soon!