A very Slytherin post
I'm now chair of the membership committee for EPIP-DC! I have some cunning plans (mostly digging around in the data on our current members, constructing some helpful reports in their Salesforce org, and maybe doing some prospective-member research with the steering committee chair later on) but I need to get less nervous about actually meeting with new members or prospective members and talking about the organization. I will shadow one such meeting and get a sense for what other people do before I try to represent EPIP-DC by myself.
I also had my second meet-up with a girl I met at the Peer Mentoring EPIP event- we've been having some great conversations about international development, professional growth, and philanthropy, and today we talked about dating experiences, so maybe I will make a new friend! She invited me to hang out at one of DC's public pools, so I might do that this weekend. I also need to follow up with my fellow database fan/Hairpinner from the clothing swap... or actually go to a Hairpinner book club meeting.
I have had lots of exciting travel adventures (San Francisco to staff a work event! New Orleans for the EPIP conference! Poconos with Michael, Celia, and Skanda!) and because we stopped at my mom's house on the way to the Poconos I also got to see high school Michael, which was awesome. I think he and my Michael got along, which is good. They have techy things, a tendency to plot world domination, and being amused at me in common, which is quite enough to be going on with. And we visited Laura, but she was working so I did not get to spend much time with her. :( Oh, and I talked with Emily for 7 minutes or so, which was a start but also insufficient.
(Now I am looking at my livejournal tags, which include such mysterious gems as: being tied to a bear, eldrich horror, juvenile delinquency, misinformation and lies, modern peonage, my life of crime, not a jelly slug after all, sucks like a muffin, taking things personally, the kitchen bug war, and wolf full of snakes.)
And now I think I have procrastinated enough on unpacking and other things I'm supposed to be doing.
I also had my second meet-up with a girl I met at the Peer Mentoring EPIP event- we've been having some great conversations about international development, professional growth, and philanthropy, and today we talked about dating experiences, so maybe I will make a new friend! She invited me to hang out at one of DC's public pools, so I might do that this weekend. I also need to follow up with my fellow database fan/Hairpinner from the clothing swap... or actually go to a Hairpinner book club meeting.
I have had lots of exciting travel adventures (San Francisco to staff a work event! New Orleans for the EPIP conference! Poconos with Michael, Celia, and Skanda!) and because we stopped at my mom's house on the way to the Poconos I also got to see high school Michael, which was awesome. I think he and my Michael got along, which is good. They have techy things, a tendency to plot world domination, and being amused at me in common, which is quite enough to be going on with. And we visited Laura, but she was working so I did not get to spend much time with her. :( Oh, and I talked with Emily for 7 minutes or so, which was a start but also insufficient.
(Now I am looking at my livejournal tags, which include such mysterious gems as: being tied to a bear, eldrich horror, juvenile delinquency, misinformation and lies, modern peonage, my life of crime, not a jelly slug after all, sucks like a muffin, taking things personally, the kitchen bug war, and wolf full of snakes.)
And now I think I have procrastinated enough on unpacking and other things I'm supposed to be doing.