Fix things Friday

[luzula]

Okay, slight overload on the organizational work this week, to the point of it feeling like a second job. Should probably tone it down a bit. But I'll be spending time with my sister this weekend (she's visiting from another town) so hopefully I'll rest a bit then. I have:

- Taken minutes at a members' meeting of the union at the town level.
- Set up the next members' meeting of the union at the university level.
- Written up a response from my environmental organization to a Forest Agency proposal. This has taken a lot of time, between reading the document, doing research, and talking to people in our org to see what they think so that what I'm writing is properly anchored.
- Worked with the ongoing forest conflict I've written about on previous weeks. This has also taken a lot of time and involved lots of talking/emailing to people. I have 1) sent in a complaint to the company's certification body, 2) alerted the authorities of findings of protected species, 3) written an op-ed in reply to the company's op-ed.
- Agreed to talk at a seminar about forest and climate and worked out with another person how we're going to divide up stuff between our two contributions. It's meant to be for people involved in the climate movement, so they can learn more about forest stuff.
- Written up and sent off a letter of protest to the Ukrainian government from our environmental org, in support of Ukrainian activists trying to protect forests in the Carpathians from a potential ski resort.
- The eternal eeemailing in both organizations.

"Anchored" is not actually used that way in English, right? In Swedish you use it to mean "making sure that something has enough support within an organization".

Comments

[the_rck]

'Anchored' can be used that way in English, but it's a metaphor referring to a ship's anchor which sinks to the bottom and holds the ship/boat in one place. So it's more of a 'can't be displaced or drift away' than 'has support.' More of a sense of being stationary and firm.

[luzula]

Thanks! Yes, the metaphor is the same in Swedish, obviously, but maybe it has acquired other overtones.

[rushthatspeaks]

I've not seen anchored used that way in English, but the meaning was instantly obvious, so I think it's an acceptable usage.

[luzula]

Thanks! I wasn't sure how to say it in English without a long phrase.

[feroxargentea]

Something like "has sufficient consensus" might be clearer. And good lord, how you have time for a (first) job is puzzling!

[luzula]

Um. Sometimes my actual job might suffer from this, in the sense that I don't think I actually work eight hours a day. OTOH nobody has complained about my performance, and I am actually engaged in my job and love teaching.