Summer is Over

[bjarvis]

I'm not a big fan of summer: I have no love of extreme heat, deathly humidity, scalding sunlight or biting insects. On the good side, it does allow me a small space in which to forget how busy my fall is every year.

This week, the full nightmare will descend up on me:

I've been away from work for a week so I have a couple of huge projects which must be caught up and finished as quickly as possible. I expect to work a night shift on Tuesday.

I need to get signatures on paper for the GCA caller school contracts as soon as possible. I'm checking currently if I need a proper board vote before issuing them or if the simple email "voice" approvals before Labor Day are sufficient. Either way, marketing is stalled until I get signatures and I really want to have something to send to the Denver A&C event next weekend.

I need to get the teaching assistants lined up for the same caller school. I sent emails of inquiry to two people this past week and have heard nothing back. I'll check with them again Monday.

I'm scheduled to give John Marshall a visit on Wednesday to help move some furniture and work on the GCA's master class format while cuyahogarvr gets more information about the December square dance event in Germany.

We continue teaching a Monday evening Mainstream square dance class for the DC Lambda Squares until early November. The new dancers are learning very quickly so we'll be done the entire Mainstream list well before then with extra floor time and practice before the Harvest Festival Hoedown comes up.

I'm calling a C2 workshop on Wednesday.

On Thursday, we begin a new Mainstream class for the Chesapeake Squares. Originally, it was going to be shared between kent4str, caller_dayle and myself, but Dayle now has some enormous work projects so he's giving it over to us. At this moment, I have no clue how many people may be signed up but I do have a teaching order ready to cover the 16 classes. We'll wrap up around xmas.

Next Saturday, kent4str is calling a square dance demo at the Hillwood Estate & Museum in DC; cuyahogarvr and I are going as dancers.

Some time before the end of this calendar year, I want to get the caller coaches lined up for the 2014 Salt Lake City caller school. I want the marketing ready to roll the moment the 2013 caller school wraps up.

There's a handful of square dance weekends also coming up in the next four weeks, but this is enough for now. I'm going to need another weekend at the trailer just to recover from this upcoming month.

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I have no love of extreme heat, deathly humidity, scalding sunlight or biting insects.

OTOH, it does give you an opportunity to post pictures that I probably shouldn't comment about in an unlocked post.

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

This will probably come across as a whiner/wimp when referring to the weather here. We've had at most less than a half dozen days when it's gotten even close to 90 and with the weather of the last weekend close to 90 people in this area (myself included somewhat) complain when the temperature is less than 60F/16C or when the temperature gets over 75F/24C. We've had as of today 49 days without _any_ precipitation. The forecast says that we're supposed to get "showers" tomorrow. The truth is that even with the "bad" rap Seattle gets for wet weather we don't really get any "serious" rain almost ever. I remember all too well of my Houston days when we'd commonly get "gully washers" and if I went to work in the morning I had to make sure and disconnect any sensitive electronics for fear that they'd be fried from electric surges due to lightning strikes.