Fix things Friday (er, Saturday)

[luzula]

It's been some time since I wrote this up--five weeks, to be exact. In that time I have:

- prepared and chaired a members' meeting of the union,
- attended and written minutes for a board meeting of the union,
- made three banners for future use in treetops (that is, I bought the fabric and sewed the banners with sturdy handles and stuff),
- painted one of those banners to promote the May Day march,
- hung it up between treetops,
- done a whole day's work on May Day (helped set up the stage, marched, went to a separate rally afterwards protesting against possible/planned infringements of the right to strike),
- taken the banner down again afterwards for use next year,
- called new union members and held introductory meeting for them,
- prepared and written minutes for another members' meeting of the union,
- planned for another forest inventory trip this summer--some other people have done work to get maps of protected areas which have been "down-graded", but they have no time to do inventories, so I and one other person will do it this summer,
- participated in a forest inventory day (well, half-day) north of my city,
- paid bills for environmental org,
- put up stuff on the homepage of environmental org,
- translated some texts into English for environmental org,
- helped with a revision of a scientific paper on environmental forestry stuff that I am co-author of,
- eeeemailed a lot.

It looks a bit silly to divide up all the stuff about the banners into different points, but each of those steps was a lot of work! So I wanted to give myself credit for that.

Comments

[lilysea]

- prepared and chaired a members' meeting of the union,
- attended and written minutes for a board meeting of the union,
- made three banners for future use in treetops (that is, I bought the fabric and sewed the banners with sturdy handles and stuff),
- painted one of those banners to promote the May Day march,
- hung it up between treetops,
- done a whole day's work on May Day (helped set up the stage, marched, went to a separate rally afterwards protesting against possible/planned infringements of the right to strike),
- taken the banner down again afterwards for use next year,
- called new union members and held introductory meeting for them,
- prepared and written minutes for another members' meeting of the union,
- planned for another forest inventory trip this summer--some other people have done work to get maps of protected areas which have been "down-graded", but they have no time to do inventories, so I and one other person will do it this summer,
- participated in a forest inventory day (well, half-day) north of my city,
- paid bills for environmental org,
- put up stuff on the homepage of environmental org,
- translated some texts into English for environmental org,
- helped with a revision of a scientific paper on environmental forestry stuff that I am co-author of,
- eeeemailed a lot.

Thank you for all of this work! ^_^

Both the union stuff, and the environmental stuff! ^_^

[luzula]

Thanks for the appreciation! : )

[skygiants]

You absolutely deserve credit for each step regarding the banners (plus all the other stuff), that sounds like a TREMENDOUS amount of work!

[luzula]

It's fun and satisfying too, in an arts-and-crafts way! But yeah, it is a lot of work.

[jesse_the_k]

Banners are a PITA to work with, they're inconveniently large and floppy, and they're so wonderful when deployed!

[luzula]

I usually use a projector and trace the edges of the text/pictures with a pen, and then fill them in with paint. Each step is easy, but it takes a lot of time! I'll post a photo of the latest one when it's up. : )

[brigantine]

My goodness, look how busy you've been! I am filled with admiration!

And yes, you absolutely should write down everything on your Stuff I Did list! It took time and effort, after all.

I'm glad you're doing the forest inventory this summer. You always seem to quite enjoy your time up there. :)

[luzula]

Thank you! It's always satisfying to see it written down. : )

There will be so much forest inventory stuff for me this year! Looking forward to it.

[lyr]

Wow, that is some heroic productivity! Go, you!

[luzula]

Thanks! Just so long as I can also put on the brakes when it's too much. Usually I'm fairly good at that, and maybe now is the time to brake slightly.