Bless me y'all, for I have sinned.
Jan. 23rd, 2007 09:27 amThe whole thing seemed pretty innocent at the time. I was just going to go over to Meetup.com, and put Gaia's Games Night on the list as a Board/Card Game Meetup. That was it. Of course, to do that, I had to get an account. And then, I thought, while I'm here, I'll just poke about and see if there's anything interesting going on in Kansas City...
Suddenly, without stopping to consider, I was signing up for all kinds of things. Pagan meetup, environmentalist meetup, neurolinguistic programming meetup (what does that even mean?). And then, in the next breath, Kansas City Speculative Fiction Writers' meetup. They meet regularly. They critique each others' work. They have a meeting this Thursday. One of them sent me a personal note explaining the process and asking me to come.
So I say to myself, "What the hell am I thinking? I do not need another regularly scheduled meeting, even if it would be fun and might help! I am on The Crack!". But I'm thinking of going anyway. I have this problem. I see things, I think "Oh, yes, that sounds like fun, I will do that!", and then, here I am, with no free time and seventy-twelve commitments still to fulfill. I have Helium Hand.
And then, last night,
triadruid says to me, "We want you to serve on the Nominating Committee for Gaia next year." And I say, "Why? I don't want to be on the Nominating Committee, and besides, I suck at it." He says, "Because you've been around forever, you know everybody, and you've been on every committee we have, so you know what they need." I protest. "I have not been on every committee!" He says,"Name one that you haven't served on." I say, "Caring." For some reason, everybody laughs.
So that's my sad story. Also, while I was on the Meetup.com website, I noticed that Kansas City has a large number of people who say they are interested in a group about shyness and social anxiety. But nobody's called a meeting about it yet. Ha. I think if they did, I might go. Except, you know, I'm shy. :/
Suddenly, without stopping to consider, I was signing up for all kinds of things. Pagan meetup, environmentalist meetup, neurolinguistic programming meetup (what does that even mean?). And then, in the next breath, Kansas City Speculative Fiction Writers' meetup. They meet regularly. They critique each others' work. They have a meeting this Thursday. One of them sent me a personal note explaining the process and asking me to come.
So I say to myself, "What the hell am I thinking? I do not need another regularly scheduled meeting, even if it would be fun and might help! I am on The Crack!". But I'm thinking of going anyway. I have this problem. I see things, I think "Oh, yes, that sounds like fun, I will do that!", and then, here I am, with no free time and seventy-twelve commitments still to fulfill. I have Helium Hand.
And then, last night,
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So that's my sad story. Also, while I was on the Meetup.com website, I noticed that Kansas City has a large number of people who say they are interested in a group about shyness and social anxiety. But nobody's called a meeting about it yet. Ha. I think if they did, I might go. Except, you know, I'm shy. :/