November 22
No More Committees. I’m done.
1964
Back to the old drag! Sunday (that’s today!) I went to St. Peter’s Church in Milford. Karen and Ellen said that the service started at 9:30 AM and so they would get me at 10:30. But it started at 9:00 and just lasted 30 minutes. I had to wait an hour before they came. I almost froze! Then we went to the Girl Scout parking lot and Rosemary’s dad drove us home. Bob recorded most of the senior play. He had a small part but I am still sorry I missed seeing him - and V! The Gaffneys came over tonight and we corrupted Kathy by teaching her to play poker.
2002
Feeling lethargic and stupid. Woke up at 6 and have piddled around ever since. Actually I got some stuff done that I had been seriously avoiding, which is good. Played 4 or 5 games of QBeez, which is BAD. Time to move on.
Comment 2024
QBeez? Oh, yeah.
2004
I got TONS of stuff done yesterday.
Finished grading essays in AMST 201
Made comments on ALL of the AMST 200 essays.
Started a plan for revising the AMST major
It felt GOOD!
2016
So what about me and my politics? Would I have turned out liberal? How liberal? And if I had, where would I belong in North Platte?
This is just a guess, but I imagine I would still have grown up to be a liberal, just perhaps not quite as liberal as I am. This begs for elaboration and details. How liberal am I? When I took the various political assessment quizzes that proliferated on Facebook in the last year, I usually scored in the 90's on my agreement with both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
2021
Today I set myself free. I said “no more committees” and resigned from the last one. It felt mostly marvelous, with an occasional twinge of guilt. I didn’t feel guilty for resigning, just for not saying “NO” in the first place.
I have been living outside of my comfort zone for months, playing at extroversion. But I really need to reclaim my time for day dreaming, creativity, introspection, for words, and yarn and flour and yeast.
No More Committees.
I’m done.
2023
The only thing I chair now is adhockery. I head a group that Riderwood calls a committee, but doesn’t act much like one, and I schedule and screen movies once a month for a rather anarchistic assemblage of film goers. The movies are nominated and selected by the group. I’m the publicist/projectionist. Last night we watched “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” - the source of one of my favorite quotations: “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like”. And Maggie Smith is an incandescent goddess, and her clothes in the movie were magnificent.
If I still had those little reel-to-reel tapes upon which I recorded "Cheaper By The Dozen" they would confirm that I flubbed all of my lines. My aversion to remote memorization ruined my chances for a career as a thespian, among many others. Even after 30 years of performing the same songs, I still rely on Songbook Pro to remember the lyrics for many of them.