And so it begins

I had planned on waiting until after the AG to announce this, but somewhere along the line, information I sent to the Nominating Committee leaked out and has already been splattered on some elists, so I may as well say it here...
Yes, I will be a candidate for First Vice Chair in the next election.


Over the next few weeks, I'll put together more information, background, and reasons why I'm best suited for this role. I will set up a separate campaign Web site. As always, I welcome feedback from members regarding your priorities and visions for Mensa in the coming years.

AG 2010 Day 1

I doubt I'll compose any long thoughtful essays over the next few days, although I will try to do write ups of the meetings as I go along.

For now, everything is quiet and I'm just sitting in my room waiting for kids to wake up so we can go to breakfast making notes for my committee meetings this afternoon and evening (Finance, Communications, Meet the AMC, Planning) and scribbling thoughts for other meetings and presentations.

I had the pleasure last night of a quintessential Mensan conversation with Richard Lederer:
"So when you want to type an interrobang but don't have the actual character, do you write '?' and then '!' or do you put the exclamation mark first?"

Sooooo different from the sorts of questions asked and answered in my mothers' club gatherings!

Last day before my drive to the AG

I keep thinking of things I need or want to do:
• Print flyers for HalloweeM
• Write up notes for various informal-but-important meetings with people I work with
• Review and write up notes on previous governance reform attempts
• List potential questions for candidates
• Charge the laptop
• Improve my Web site
• Write long replies to speculations and accusations
• Catch up on email from last week's trip
• Pay bills, mow lawn, pack clothes, clean cat boxes, stop mail, vacuum minivan...

Sigh. I need a vacation from all these vacations.

But I am very much looking forward to seeing everyone, starting tomorrow evening!

Not Mensa

But this vacation picture was too good not to share.



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Moderating Comments

Just an FYI... I'll be out of Internet touch for a few days and unable to approve any comments to this blog.

Sorry that I moderate, but I had a very nasty go-to-the-police stalker flooding me not long ago, so I still have to manually approve comments before the get published.


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Busy Busy Before the AG

Preparing committee agendas. Gathering notes, printing out memos. Scheduling all the little "let's find a moment to talk about that at the AG" meetings. Writing and writing and writing. And all in a rush now because I'll be gone and incommunicado for the week before the AG sailing in the Grenadines.

Yeah my life is that rough.