Unbadgering
Sep. 13th, 2010 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleFinally, A few moments to stop moving.
Badger was extremely pleasant despite some logistics issues. After cooking for the setup crew, my responsibilities were limited, but I still stepped in to the kitchen a few times to help get things done. Really screwed up on the rice, though. I have almost no experience cooking with food pans and ovens, much less those WWII era gasoline fired beasts that are somehow both too hot and too cool at the same time.
The RMC cocktail party is one of the high points of the year for me, though this year it seemed awfully subdued. Our new initiate (Gary Bowie, of the Satyrs) hardly even got wet - not sure how that happened, it all went by so quick I didn't even get a chance to step up to the plate, as it were. But the urinal punch fountain was brilliant.
Packing up the truck is the job from hell. Curiously, it is more of an information and communication problem than a physical labor problem. Makes me think that the stereotypical way of teaching "teamwork" - through various group exercises - is misguided. A more formal approach to structuring of work would do wonders for tasks like this. Even if it can't be made faster and easier, it can surely be accomplished with less drama.
[Now that I'm older, and can look at my youth more dispassionately, I can see all the ways in which collaborative work was not a way to bond, but rather a means of persecution - there are few better ways to drag someone down than to make them feel and appear useless in front of their peers. So it remains an emotionally-charged thing, but also a source of insight.]
I've been shooting a fair bit of video, and have a few entertaining clips from the run. But it's all in high-def, and having almost no experience with video I am unsure of how to trim it down to size and distribute it.
A lot of things have changed this summer, and in particular I find myself not giving a shit about a whole lot of things that once seemed important. This is actually a positive change - apathy is a goal I've been pursuing for years. :-P This happens to include a markedly reduced interest in posting to LJ. My sense is that the well is dry, and I find myself with nothing to say that hasn't already been said before.
Badger was extremely pleasant despite some logistics issues. After cooking for the setup crew, my responsibilities were limited, but I still stepped in to the kitchen a few times to help get things done. Really screwed up on the rice, though. I have almost no experience cooking with food pans and ovens, much less those WWII era gasoline fired beasts that are somehow both too hot and too cool at the same time.
The RMC cocktail party is one of the high points of the year for me, though this year it seemed awfully subdued. Our new initiate (Gary Bowie, of the Satyrs) hardly even got wet - not sure how that happened, it all went by so quick I didn't even get a chance to step up to the plate, as it were. But the urinal punch fountain was brilliant.
Packing up the truck is the job from hell. Curiously, it is more of an information and communication problem than a physical labor problem. Makes me think that the stereotypical way of teaching "teamwork" - through various group exercises - is misguided. A more formal approach to structuring of work would do wonders for tasks like this. Even if it can't be made faster and easier, it can surely be accomplished with less drama.
[Now that I'm older, and can look at my youth more dispassionately, I can see all the ways in which collaborative work was not a way to bond, but rather a means of persecution - there are few better ways to drag someone down than to make them feel and appear useless in front of their peers. So it remains an emotionally-charged thing, but also a source of insight.]
I've been shooting a fair bit of video, and have a few entertaining clips from the run. But it's all in high-def, and having almost no experience with video I am unsure of how to trim it down to size and distribute it.
A lot of things have changed this summer, and in particular I find myself not giving a shit about a whole lot of things that once seemed important. This is actually a positive change - apathy is a goal I've been pursuing for years. :-P This happens to include a markedly reduced interest in posting to LJ. My sense is that the well is dry, and I find myself with nothing to say that hasn't already been said before.
