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Sorority stuff

I did a bunch of work on the ΤΒΣ site last night- about four hours worth by the time I got done. FTP wasn't agreeing with me,though... so photos had to get put on ClubPhoto for the time being. Hopefully it will work better today and I can get them up.

Christine had given me a ton of stuff to sift through-- lots of little snippets of who was an officer at a particular time. I'll be putting together a random history page in the next few days, just so it's all in one place and can be skimmed through by whomever-- and hopefully fill in pieces as we go.

I'm still not thrilled with the layout-- it's boring and just *there* in a bleh sort of way... but it's up to date and readable at least. *shrug* Maybe I'll tinker more with that this weekend and see if I can come up with something a bit nicer looking, now that a good chunk of the info on there is up to date for the current informational/rush cycle.

And speaking off rush... while I'd given my RSVP to an alumnae group from one of the PanHellenic orgs to meet their gathering chapter (which I've been very interested in pursuing for Alumnae Initiation) for this Thursday evening, I'm having strong second thoughts. I've been really evaluating my free time and what I'm able to commit to such a move, and I have deep concerns that it would just be overextending myself into something that would be unfair to the organization and to me. I'd been thinking of doing this during a time when I had virtually no contact with the active sisters of ΤΒΣ and kinda felt like my ties there were completely cut, dead, buried, etc. As rough as my years as an active sister were in ΤΒΣ, I still enjoyed that feeling of sisterhood and wanted it to continue. I just didn't see that it was going to happen with ΤΒΣ.

Of course-- the reality is nearly the opposite. I've met several of the actives, had a great time seeing their energy for the chapter, and didn't have that feeling of "oh... you're one of those old weird alumni people" vibes that members of the Iota through Mu class got off the cruise (which I still think was mostly their own fault). There's plenty of stuff can very easily keep me happy and busy on the alumna end for the forseeable future, helping the chapter out in the background. The website being one. Helping Maureen re-establish some sort of an alumni newsletter and maybe get some local interest in a casual BAAA again. The Boston Area Alumni Association was a fairly big organization when I was an active, but it essentially fell apart in the mid-90's... I don't know why, but I'm sure some of the undergrad chapter politics of the orgs filtered their way up to the alumni. There's enough alumni of ΤΒΣ floating around to put together something casual (not necessarily an official AA... which involves having to delve back into chapter constitutions, national dues, and all that crap). I just remember wishing that the alumni would give us a hand when I was an active... and now that I have the opportunity from the other coin, I don't really want to be a hypocrite, you know?

In any case, I'll be cancelling said RSVP today with deep apologies. I can't risk making the bad impression of overextending myself. It's really unfair to me and to the organization, especially right now when I need to take a good look at what's going on in my life and get some things straightened up and resolved (nothing really serious, FYI... just things like laundry and housework that I'm always too tired to do).

Meh.

10:17 a.m. - 14 September 2004

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