Busy, busy little bee
Monday - panic for Tuesday night
Tuesday - give lecture on requirements specification and SRET to the QAA. Only three people showed up, and one of them was another presenter.
Wednesday - tennis. 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 -> defeat!
Thursday - Golden Key New Members welcome. Used my awesome powers of charisma to form a big knot of people to talk to. Met these people:
David - ex flight lieutenant, currently retired, working in aeronautical engineering.
Terry - not actually a Golden Key member, not sure of his relationship to the current chapter president, Stacey, not sure what he is doing, but he sure is handy to have around.
Erin - studying marketting, working at HJ's. Did not get a good chance to talk to her due to the really annoying chair designs and ever expanding circle of people.
Sonya - Very interesting young lady; working two jobs and has a part time gig on the local radio. Studying something to do with publicity and the media. Has a pet golden labrador puppy.
Amanda - very active, sporting girl, plays tennis, volleyball, netball, AFL football, rugby, cricket, and anything she can do. Studying physiotherapy. Surprisingly talkative, I mistook her for the quiet shy type that wanted to hide in the corner of the room, once she got in the group she took over it.
Steph - studying to be a primary school teacher. Didn't find out much else.
Mysterious Girl X - was friends with Steff and Amanda but I never found out her name, what she did, or their history.
Julia and Shelly - I got their names but that was it. By the time they joined, the circle was so big, I couldn't even talk to them.
Pere - South African guy studying nursing, looking for accomodation. Anybody live near the Royal Adelaide Hospital and looking for a tenant?
Aysia - Another South African guy, but I didn't catch his study.
So the goal here was not to assemble all the cute girls into one circle around me, but to get the people talking with each other so they were enjoying themselves. So periodically I would walk around and spot people who seemed uninvolved or being wallflowers or looking for something to do, grab them, introduce them to some other person in the same situation. So I met a few other people this way too, but unfortunately I could not remember everybodies name.
Only two current executive people could make it, which was an odd thing, there was a lot more at the induction ceremony. Where did they go? So I did feel some sympathy for Stacey when so many came to the meeting - she had only had 11 RSVP, but then around fifty showed up so they had to move to another room. The main purpose of the informal meeting was to get people talking with each other and to ask questions about the Society to the executive, unfortunately with only two there they were quickly overwhelmed. I did have some previous experience as president so that is why I got the people into a big group; they then naturally split out and started talking amongst themselves and stayed rather than drifting off quietly in ones or twos. The second purpose was for Stacy to talk about what she needed in the new executive, and to tkae registrations of interest - it looked like almost everybody signed up, which is really positive. The AGM is on the 25th.
Stacy asked me what I wanted to do. I explained that this was her show now, I was keen to help out but - the main value for her as president was to lead and make decisions on her own. Similarly, I would not stand in the way of any new member who wanted a role on the exec; I had been on the exec before, it would be more valuable to a new person for that individual and also our chapter. So I said, find out who is interested in what, and if there are any gaps that need to be filled, I will go there.
Friday night - maybe playing warcraft at work with da ladz.
Saturday - hopefully nothing all day.
I need to buy: New set of shelves from Ikea, plus one more tray that I somehow missed.
Ironing board!!!!! I went to iron my shirt for the talk on Tuesday. Up until now I always made a habit of buying shirts that didn't really need to be ironed. But I wore a really nice shirt for the talk (because I thought I would be in front of around three hundred industry specialists, not three guys who rocked up in a tshirt and track pants...I should have known. This is computer science. These people...never see the sun...) and holy cow, it needed to be ironed. So I tried to iron it on the table. I don't know. I think it came out MORE wrinkled. And it smelt kind of funny. At least it felt nice to put on.
Oh one more thing - I need to buy a new front right tyre. I went to go to work the other day and I couldn't help but notice one of my tyres had exploded overnight. It is inexplicably worn down and crappy looking, while the others all look clean and happy. So I don't know, perhaps it was on low pressure and I had been driving it around and killed it dead, then during the night the changing temperature caused it to...hell, I don't know. Chemistry is scary. Anyway, the result is I need to buy a new tyre. Fortunately I had a spare so it's not a real tragedgy, just a small annoyance.
Sunday - dodgeball, then practicing dodgeball. Cat said to me that my throwing is all over the place - we know I can't throw or catch very well, so I said that I was interested in practicing. Well she took me up on it and now we will be practicing with James after the game. James had a hair cut - he used to have a tremendous affro, but without the hair he has transformed from a laid back hippie guy into some kind of assault marine of death. It's like, the hair was just holding him back, kind of the opposite of Sampson. He's faster, meaner, more angry, and he throws real damn hard, accurate, and he's jumping all over the place like a frog on a hot plate. He went from the laziest guy on the whole damn team to some kind of sport playing octopus. Now he's making me look bad, so I'd better learn how to at least throw straight.
Monday - I'm going fencing.
Tuesday - give lecture on requirements specification and SRET to the QAA. Only three people showed up, and one of them was another presenter.
Wednesday - tennis. 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 -> defeat!
Thursday - Golden Key New Members welcome. Used my awesome powers of charisma to form a big knot of people to talk to. Met these people:
David - ex flight lieutenant, currently retired, working in aeronautical engineering.
Terry - not actually a Golden Key member, not sure of his relationship to the current chapter president, Stacey, not sure what he is doing, but he sure is handy to have around.
Erin - studying marketting, working at HJ's. Did not get a good chance to talk to her due to the really annoying chair designs and ever expanding circle of people.
Sonya - Very interesting young lady; working two jobs and has a part time gig on the local radio. Studying something to do with publicity and the media. Has a pet golden labrador puppy.
Amanda - very active, sporting girl, plays tennis, volleyball, netball, AFL football, rugby, cricket, and anything she can do. Studying physiotherapy. Surprisingly talkative, I mistook her for the quiet shy type that wanted to hide in the corner of the room, once she got in the group she took over it.
Steph - studying to be a primary school teacher. Didn't find out much else.
Mysterious Girl X - was friends with Steff and Amanda but I never found out her name, what she did, or their history.
Julia and Shelly - I got their names but that was it. By the time they joined, the circle was so big, I couldn't even talk to them.
Pere - South African guy studying nursing, looking for accomodation. Anybody live near the Royal Adelaide Hospital and looking for a tenant?
Aysia - Another South African guy, but I didn't catch his study.
So the goal here was not to assemble all the cute girls into one circle around me, but to get the people talking with each other so they were enjoying themselves. So periodically I would walk around and spot people who seemed uninvolved or being wallflowers or looking for something to do, grab them, introduce them to some other person in the same situation. So I met a few other people this way too, but unfortunately I could not remember everybodies name.
Only two current executive people could make it, which was an odd thing, there was a lot more at the induction ceremony. Where did they go? So I did feel some sympathy for Stacey when so many came to the meeting - she had only had 11 RSVP, but then around fifty showed up so they had to move to another room. The main purpose of the informal meeting was to get people talking with each other and to ask questions about the Society to the executive, unfortunately with only two there they were quickly overwhelmed. I did have some previous experience as president so that is why I got the people into a big group; they then naturally split out and started talking amongst themselves and stayed rather than drifting off quietly in ones or twos. The second purpose was for Stacy to talk about what she needed in the new executive, and to tkae registrations of interest - it looked like almost everybody signed up, which is really positive. The AGM is on the 25th.
Stacy asked me what I wanted to do. I explained that this was her show now, I was keen to help out but - the main value for her as president was to lead and make decisions on her own. Similarly, I would not stand in the way of any new member who wanted a role on the exec; I had been on the exec before, it would be more valuable to a new person for that individual and also our chapter. So I said, find out who is interested in what, and if there are any gaps that need to be filled, I will go there.
Friday night - maybe playing warcraft at work with da ladz.
Saturday - hopefully nothing all day.
I need to buy: New set of shelves from Ikea, plus one more tray that I somehow missed.
Ironing board!!!!! I went to iron my shirt for the talk on Tuesday. Up until now I always made a habit of buying shirts that didn't really need to be ironed. But I wore a really nice shirt for the talk (because I thought I would be in front of around three hundred industry specialists, not three guys who rocked up in a tshirt and track pants...I should have known. This is computer science. These people...never see the sun...) and holy cow, it needed to be ironed. So I tried to iron it on the table. I don't know. I think it came out MORE wrinkled. And it smelt kind of funny. At least it felt nice to put on.
Oh one more thing - I need to buy a new front right tyre. I went to go to work the other day and I couldn't help but notice one of my tyres had exploded overnight. It is inexplicably worn down and crappy looking, while the others all look clean and happy. So I don't know, perhaps it was on low pressure and I had been driving it around and killed it dead, then during the night the changing temperature caused it to...hell, I don't know. Chemistry is scary. Anyway, the result is I need to buy a new tyre. Fortunately I had a spare so it's not a real tragedgy, just a small annoyance.
Sunday - dodgeball, then practicing dodgeball. Cat said to me that my throwing is all over the place - we know I can't throw or catch very well, so I said that I was interested in practicing. Well she took me up on it and now we will be practicing with James after the game. James had a hair cut - he used to have a tremendous affro, but without the hair he has transformed from a laid back hippie guy into some kind of assault marine of death. It's like, the hair was just holding him back, kind of the opposite of Sampson. He's faster, meaner, more angry, and he throws real damn hard, accurate, and he's jumping all over the place like a frog on a hot plate. He went from the laziest guy on the whole damn team to some kind of sport playing octopus. Now he's making me look bad, so I'd better learn how to at least throw straight.
Monday - I'm going fencing.
