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[bjarvis]

Last night was the first of three open house events for the Chesapeake Squares in Baltimore. I estimate we had a half-dozen newbies and about the same number of lapsed former CS members. In all, we had three squares of dancers with a few to spare. Heaven knows how many we'll be able to keep for an MS class or how many will return next week, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

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*Knock*, *Knock*
Who's there?
Control Freak. Now you say, "Control Freak who?"

Tomorrow night (Thursday), the DC Lambda Squares folks will be meeting for the first time since winning the 2009 IAGSDC convention bid. In my usual control freak fashion, I've already parcelled out long range tasks to various people and have been working in Microsoft Project to create an overall project plan for the next four years. Formalizing our existing structure, our committee chair has asked me to be secretary for the corporation we're forming for the convention. I'm uncertain if this is an honour, suicide, mercy killing or all of the above, but --what the hell-- I've been kinda bored & directionless since I left the DCLS board last March when my term expired. What's the point of consuming all of this sugar & caffeine if there's no where productive to channel it?

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The latest Hanhurst/Palomino square dance sampler tape arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. I was listening to it on my drive to work this morning when I had a revelation: apparently there is no a priori requirement for a caller to be sober before recording a singing track. Mack Yokum's rendition of "Behind Closed Doors" is, shall we say, special. Bless his heart. :-^

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Lethargic???? You lead the same kind of life I do, feeling guilty when we have a few minutes downtime. :-)

And if you sent all these to-do lists to people, are YOU the committee chair or is someone else by proxy! heheh

I stopped subscribing to Hanhurst about 7 years ago, partially because I already had 800 records and partially because I was becoming a blithering, drooling idiot listening to 30 records a month of off-key, badly produced vocals from vanity press labels. If I had to hear Heads Promenade 1/2, square thru, swing thru, boys run, ferris wheel, square thru three, I was going to SCREEEEEEAAAAAAAM!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tend to be a little hyperactive. Attention deficit disorder sounds much better when we call it "rapid interrupt-driven multitasking." It's a feature, not a bug. :-)

Yeah, my guilt button is centered on the concept of waste: unproductive time, missed opportunities, unused resources, passing up a parking spot in DC, etc.. I'm feeling particularly anxious at this time of writing because I have *nothing* office-related to do until a work ticket window opens at 3 PM but I have a tonne of things to get done at home. This working for a living is severely hampering my ability to be productive.

I wouldn't want to be chair of any committee. I'm not very imaginative but am really good at project management: others can work on strategy while I focus on tactics. Go with your strengths, Grandma Jarvis always said. (She also advised me to marry rich but I think she'd approve of the one I snagged instead.)

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Oh, and mercifully now, my drive-time to work is 4 minutes max (1.2 miles), so I'm spared the pull of popping a tape into my player (or CD nowadays).

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I envy your short commute. When I first moved to the US, my first contract job was a 35 mile trek to the environs of Dulles Airport. After several years of the commute-from-hell, I landed a contract working 4 miles from home, for my current employer. Then I was transferred to a different campus of the same company, putting me out at Dulles again, not quite as far as the first contract. At least I could grab the company shuttle bus and get some sleep during the commute. Now they've moved me to a new data center in Maryland, 32 miles door-to-door with no shuttle. It is tolerable though as it's on the correct of the Potomac River, avoiding bridge congestion and moving against the flow of commuter traffic. Wanna trade jobs?