Fix things Friday

[luzula]

In the last two weeks I have:

- Participated in and written minutes for a union board meeting.
- Prepared in various ways for the upcoming annual meeting of the union, such as contributing to the annual report, making a budget draft, making sure information is sent out to the members, replied to questions from the auditors, etc.
- Finally found a replacement for the person who's leaving the union board. And I am so looking forward to being on the board with her! \o/ Actually it's someone who I've been really wanting to get to know.
- Called new union members to welcome them.
- Held a lecture and then discussion on forest, climate and biofuels for a local climate group.
- Put up stuff on the website of environmental org.
- Prepared excel sheet of adresses of members that should be sent the summons to the annual meeting of environmental org.
- Done lots of eeeeemailing about various issues, as always.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

All very good things. I'm glad you've found a cool future colleague--finding board members is HAAAARD.

This, tho:
Prepared excel sheet of adresses of members that should be sent the summons to the annual meeting of environmental org.

brought to mind the miserable 3-across 10-down mimeograph masters we'd use for mailing labels in the Bad Old Days before magic computers. The excel sheet is actually a database, I hope.

[luzula]

The excel sheet is an actual excel sheet which we use to keep track of members. I'm not the one who maintains it, but I have more excel skills so I was the one who prepared it for sending to the printer's so they can print the adresses on the postcards we were going to send. Aaaaand then it turns out that the person who ordered the postcards didn't make sure they could actually print them, and now she's going to have to do it some manual way. /o\ Well, she did kind of make the work for herself.

And yessss, a board member! We actually had a lovely email conversation leading up to her saying yes. So looking forward to spending more time with her.