renay: Text: I love being awesome! (i love being awesome), from <user name="iconomicon" site=livejournal.com>Renay ([personal profile] renay) wrote,
@ 2012-01-25 08:56 pm UTC
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[personal profile] renay: Professor still hasn't replied to my email! It was a serious academic question, professor!
[twitter.com profile] echthroi: That's questionable, since your last academic paper had the word "cock" in the title.

Hello, friends! Many days have passed and I have returned to the soul-crushing embrace of $dayjob where I earn a terrible amount of money selling popcorn. Today I went in on my day off to find one of the ICEE pumps hissing, as they do when they're out and there are no replacements, and everyone was like RENAY PLEASE FIX IT I KNOW YOU'RE OFF THE CLOCK BUT MAKE IT STOP (dramatization). It's nice to be appreciated instead of yelled at, which will happen the first weekend after tax returns have gone out and we're all grasping to throttle various necks, so I should enjoy it while it lasts. Everyone missed me a lot and I was the recipient of many great hugs and one awkward handshake. Normally it is the opposite; this was a nice change.

Other news:
I started a reading project with [twitter.com profile] echthroi in January: She Wrote What?

Yesterday was the first Volunteers & Recruiting Committee meeting of the term and we got a lot done. We'll be sending out new and returning staff lists to our brand new, shiny chairs plus our returning chairs, and responding again to volunteers forms in the next week. Another VolComrade and I are undertaking a documentation project for forming new inter-committee groups, and we're examining our internal processes to find better ways to track our projects. For example, I proposed a new agenda/minutes structure and created an example and hope it will help us track our processes, work we volunteer for as well as allow other committees see what we're up to.

It's good to be a VolComrade. :)

I wrote more Teen Wolf fic, a little Inception fic, got a cat spayed, created a Youtube playlist of songs from a D-TV special I loved a as a kid, and spent a lot of time thinking about my resume but not actually working on it. Where did you go, January?


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hermitsoul: Archive of Our Own pirate logo icon (* ao3: stultiloquentia), DW

[personal profile] hermitsoul
2012-01-26 04:18 am UTC (link)
undertaking a documentation project for forming new inter-committee groups

Wait - this is partly for me, isn't it? I hope so, because I have no clue what to do next, and Support/AD&T need one badly!

proposed a new agenda/minutes structure

Now this sounds very interesting - I'm pondering different options for this term as well.

In other news, I'm playing around with Trello, a site [personal profile] elz suggested for managing feature requests, and I have to say it has some interesting possibilities for project management. I've already created a testing board for personal Org work and can see it working very well.

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renay: Text: I love being awesome! (i love being awesome), from <user name="iconomicon" site=livejournal.com>

[personal profile] renay
2012-01-26 04:30 am UTC (link)
It is partly for you! :D I was going to take point but circumstances have changed for me meaning a lot of the org work I do will have to be in very small windows of time and I may not be able to respond to email as quickly as others, so I asked for help. It's an important project and deserves someone around a bit more in case you have questions. Definitely soon! :)

Yes! You should look on the internal wiki at the VolCom page, under "Meetings" and see! I really want to demystify work we're doing and think thorough agendas and minutes will help a lot. I am still considering some improvements, but the basics are there. AD&T's system is SUPER THOROUGH but also terrifies me in its sheer boldness, because I don't think we're that busy, so I borrowed from both AD&T and Tag Wrangling.

Oooh, trello looks super cool. Thanks for sharing it. :D

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surexit: A brightly smiling girl in a spotted headscarf. (:D)

[personal profile] surexit
2012-01-26 12:47 pm UTC (link)
Your first item made me laugh out loud.

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renay: Text: I love being awesome! (i love being awesome), from <user name="iconomicon" site=livejournal.com>

[personal profile] renay
2012-01-26 04:20 pm UTC (link)
It's all true. There's a 150% chance he hasn't even read it yet because he thinks the subject line, which was "serious academic question" is me trying to be clever/funny. But no! It was a serious academic question.

It's like crying wolf, but with instead with joking. I have no one to blame but myself.

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surexit: A bird held loosely in two hands, with the text 'kenovay'. (i'll fly away)

[personal profile] surexit
2012-01-27 02:28 am UTC (link)
Hahaha, that's kind of amazing. I hope he responds to your serious academic question soon!

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ainsley: (honest words are like august thirds, the trees the grass and pretty things), by <lj site="livejournal.com" user="pentapus">; NOT FOR SHARING | source: other

[personal profile] ainsley
2012-01-31 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Being your volcomrade is an honor.

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renay: Text: I love being awesome! (i love being awesome), from <user name="iconomicon" site=livejournal.com>

[personal profile] renay
2012-01-31 10:21 pm UTC (link)
I hope this means I get presented some kind of scepter. I would look rad with one!

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