General update
Jan. 23rd, 2015 10:36 pm1) Am no longer auditor for environmental youth organization. Woohoo! I no longer have to read endless amounts of documents and be annoyed at the board! I have done my bit there.
2) My plans for becoming more active in my union are proceeding well. I am now part of the welcoming committee for new members, and the other two people in that committee seem nice and easy to work with.
3) Will probably become one of the spokespeople for the environmental forest organization where I am on the board. It's not that I am eager to be in the media, more that I've been active a number of years, so that I know enough about the issues, and feel it is my duty to take a turn doing it. On the bright side, it's a change from being treasurer.
4) I made a podcast together with some other people! It's about an environmental forest issue, and it was fun to make, although I sound kind of stupid sometimes. It really is very different from recording podfic, where I have a set text to perform--I know how to do that. Also quite different from teaching, which is another kind of performance that I can do well. But I guess I'll get better at the podcasting if I keep at it.
5) Am quite possibly going to Russia to do forest inventories for a week this summer, in an exchange with a Karelian environmental organization. That would be cool, although I am a bit leery of it in light of what happened to the Greenpeace anti-oil activists. They were doing a lot more high-profile, controversial stuff, though.
6) There is a piano in our house, and I have started playing it. I used to play the piano 10-15 years ago, and I'm surprised how much I remember and how much I'm enjoying it. Am now mostly playing some Chopin and also Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
7) In other house news, Very Bad Landlord will probably sell the house (although characteristically, he isn't saying when). I am not sorry to be rid of him, but it means we have to find somewhere else to live. We're seven people in the house now; four or five of us want to find someplace new together. Ack, I hate house-hunting.
8) Still unrequitedly in love. *sigh* But there's lots of other important stuff in my life. I am mostly content with that.
2) My plans for becoming more active in my union are proceeding well. I am now part of the welcoming committee for new members, and the other two people in that committee seem nice and easy to work with.
3) Will probably become one of the spokespeople for the environmental forest organization where I am on the board. It's not that I am eager to be in the media, more that I've been active a number of years, so that I know enough about the issues, and feel it is my duty to take a turn doing it. On the bright side, it's a change from being treasurer.
4) I made a podcast together with some other people! It's about an environmental forest issue, and it was fun to make, although I sound kind of stupid sometimes. It really is very different from recording podfic, where I have a set text to perform--I know how to do that. Also quite different from teaching, which is another kind of performance that I can do well. But I guess I'll get better at the podcasting if I keep at it.
5) Am quite possibly going to Russia to do forest inventories for a week this summer, in an exchange with a Karelian environmental organization. That would be cool, although I am a bit leery of it in light of what happened to the Greenpeace anti-oil activists. They were doing a lot more high-profile, controversial stuff, though.
6) There is a piano in our house, and I have started playing it. I used to play the piano 10-15 years ago, and I'm surprised how much I remember and how much I'm enjoying it. Am now mostly playing some Chopin and also Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
7) In other house news, Very Bad Landlord will probably sell the house (although characteristically, he isn't saying when). I am not sorry to be rid of him, but it means we have to find somewhere else to live. We're seven people in the house now; four or five of us want to find someplace new together. Ack, I hate house-hunting.
8) Still unrequitedly in love. *sigh* But there's lots of other important stuff in my life. I am mostly content with that.