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summercomfort) wrote2012-05-15 10:44 pm
summercomfort) wrote2012-05-15 10:44 pm
Tired, at home
I hope Jono comes home soon. It feels weird without him around on Monday and Tuesday nights. (Monday night is accordion and Tuesday night is little man fights*.)
Anyway, tonight was Achievement Night at school, which I've been planning for a month now. So it's quite nice to see it come to fruition. I'm pretty happy that nothing disastrous happened, and everything came together. When I first tried to explain my vision for Student Achievement Night to other people, they didn't quite get it, so it was nice to be able to point to the product and say, "This is what I meant."
Another thing that I was happy about is that there wasn't *that* much work involved. I think I spent about 2 hours a week in the first 2 weeks, and then last week I spent probably 4-5 hours, and yesterday and today I spent about 6 hours. I even got to see some presentations, and I was cleaned up by about 30 minutes after the event. Compared to UChi-Con type things, this is way easier.
Lots of people came up to compliment me or thank me. Umm.... I'm still kind of awkward about that. My brain still goes into "defensive mode" -- especially since I feel like organizing this wasn't that hard -- it was the students and teachers that actually did the work of presenting and being cool. I'm not very good at accepting compliments ... I always have to add a "but". I think that makes me appear rude??? :-/
Man, there are social "expectations" that I'm *so* not good at. Like the whole "say 'hi' to someone for me" thing. Or that you have to awkwardly say hi to people when you meet outside of the normal social context -- at a school play or while shopping. What do you talk about in those situations? And I usually forget to introduce Jono. :X
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* Warmachine -- a tabletop miniatures game.
Anyway, tonight was Achievement Night at school, which I've been planning for a month now. So it's quite nice to see it come to fruition. I'm pretty happy that nothing disastrous happened, and everything came together. When I first tried to explain my vision for Student Achievement Night to other people, they didn't quite get it, so it was nice to be able to point to the product and say, "This is what I meant."
Another thing that I was happy about is that there wasn't *that* much work involved. I think I spent about 2 hours a week in the first 2 weeks, and then last week I spent probably 4-5 hours, and yesterday and today I spent about 6 hours. I even got to see some presentations, and I was cleaned up by about 30 minutes after the event. Compared to UChi-Con type things, this is way easier.
Lots of people came up to compliment me or thank me. Umm.... I'm still kind of awkward about that. My brain still goes into "defensive mode" -- especially since I feel like organizing this wasn't that hard -- it was the students and teachers that actually did the work of presenting and being cool. I'm not very good at accepting compliments ... I always have to add a "but". I think that makes me appear rude??? :-/
Man, there are social "expectations" that I'm *so* not good at. Like the whole "say 'hi' to someone for me" thing. Or that you have to awkwardly say hi to people when you meet outside of the normal social context -- at a school play or while shopping. What do you talk about in those situations? And I usually forget to introduce Jono. :X
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* Warmachine -- a tabletop miniatures game.