Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Random Happenings

So I have actually missed two, yes TWO, days of blogging. I apologize for this and am sure you have been eagerly anticipating my next blog!


First and foremost, I'm sure my Nebraska friends and family are quite excited by LSU's win over OSU in last night's BCS Championship Game. If Bo Pelini could take over as Head Coach for the Husker football team on a higher pedestal I'd like to see how! Hopes and expectations are high, but we'll reevaluate in September! I had wanted to relax and enjoy the game, but alas I was stuck in a Pride Board Meeting until 10:15pm... more on this later. I did get to catch the last few moments of the game, so i guess all was not lost.


Okay, no more sports talk, I promise.


So yesterday started with a 5:15am wake-up call. My new neighbor and I have decided to work out every morning before work. I would consider myself a morning person... if mornings started at 10:00am. However 5:00am??? Even the sun wonders why the hell you are getting up. Anyway, time to work off the 5 lbs that I gained over the holidays. I was actually pretty awake for the workout, and was pleasantly surprised to find several attractive guys working out as well that early in the AM. I started to think that maybe I would be able to keep this up after all! That is until I hit 10:00am and exhaustion set in. This is going to be hard to adjust my schedule, but I shall succeed!


All would have been find except for the 3 hour and 15 minute Pride Board meeting that followed work. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy the work I get to do for the festival, but the board meetings completely drain me. All the politics and such. Add to that the fact I've been up since 5:00am and Scott becomes quite the cranky individual. Unfortunately I have been working with this group for 3 years now and I might (just maybe) allow my facial expressions to reveal a bit too much! I blew off some steam by the end by ranting about people needing to come to the meetings more prepared, blah, blah, blah.


The one great thing that came out of the meeting was that Adam Robbins, who volunteers as my Exhibitor Coordinator for the Festival (and is a good friend), was awarded the 2008 Pride Hero of the Year Award. I don't think this has ever gone to a Pride Volunteer in the past, and it couldn't have gone to a better candidate. He was nominated amongst a field of dedicated GLBT community members, but there was no question as to who should win. He embodies the volunteer spirit, doing things not for himself but the 'greater good'. Many people noted that no matter what event they go to, Pride, HRC Dinner, NCOD Luncheon, etc. he is there, and he isn't just attending, but working it with a smile. He is truly the model volunteer and I don't know what our team would do without him! If you know Adam, congratulate him! He deserves it!!!


One last little note from my 'real job'. We had, what I like to refer to as, a cluster fu*k day today. There were basically three events going on in the building. Easy day for us really. But it couldn't have been laid out worse. We had one group of 2,000 going from the lower level to the Auditorium lobby, one group of 1000 going from the Auditorium Lobby to the lower level and one group of 300 going from the Auditorium to the lower level and this all had to happen within about 15 minutes. Now, we have 1.5 million square feet of event space, but for some reason we could only use two areas for it, I don't know why no one caught this, or why I was the first to pose the question late last week... but "Ours isn't to question why... "
Our traffic flow plan looked a little like this:

When giving directions I felt a little like the cartoon character that crosses his arms and points both directions. *sigh*
That's all for now. Time for a nap...

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