More clubbing

[juliet]

Anyone up for a visit to Oxford for Panic on Wed 21st May? I may even get to DJ if I ask the new committee nicely enough, which would be fun (see here for beingjdc's & my last set, which rocked enormously). It's only an hr & a half by coach from London, y'know. I shall go up, anyway (unless the unexpected happens & the Report Stage of the Hunting Bill gets announced for then - this is v unlikely), & would welcome company.

I have stuff to do, & should get on & do it. Trade-union-hat stuff, as well, which always makes me nervouser than normal work stuff. Bah.

Comments

[karen2205]

How come re TU stuff making you more nervous than normal work stuff? Just curious - cos logically, doing TU stuff badly couldn't get you into anywhere near as much trouble as doing work stuff badly......

[juliet]

More responsibility, much less practice, broadly. With work stuff, I have a manager who is kind of responsible for stuff as well. TU things, it's just me (OK, in theory there's support from the full-time union staff, but they are a bit rubbish, to put it kindly). Plus work involves skills with which I have lots of practice (researching, broadly. There's the answering of people's questions, as well, but mostly it's researching & writing that up). The negotiation things that I have to do as TU rep I have way less experience with.

[karen2205]

Oh, OK, I understand. Though, I'd imagine it's also much more fun and exciting, as well as being a bit scary, simply because it's so different to the other things you do. Look on lack of experience as a positive thing - you haven't got a preset idea of what you want to achieve/how you're going to approach it, so you're much more adaptable/creative/imaginative than someone with years of experience.

[lnr]

Very very tempting. I shall have to think about logistics and discuss with the Cambridge hordes. We is no-longer with car though (MOTless) which makes it harder. Would have to take the next day off... Hmmm. Definitely a good idea.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Car! I have car. If we set off now, pto452 should get us there in time. :)

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Space for another?

[juliet]

Hurrah, many many people. They will have to let me DJ if I tell them I'm bringing lots of people :-)

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

I'm up for that, and have transport...

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Could be persuaded, I should think. I think that's the penultimate day of the C course I'm doing that week.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

If you go I'll also attend. Could be *fun*!

[juliet]

go on go on, you should both come. It will indeed be *fun*, lots. yay for clubbing!
(& it is still *my* club, dammit, even if it's been getting on for 4 years since I stopped running it :-) )

ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex pres

[(Anonymous)]

This time next week I will be ex-ex-pres. And I'm still here! How scary is that? I think you were 3 back from me, weren't you?

Kat x

Re: ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-ex pres

[juliet]

Summer 1999 I became ex-pres. So... only ex-ex-ex-ex-ex pres, by my calculations. But *still*. Gosh. Aren't we all *old*?

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

Ah, quite possibly I would be up for that.. What are things like sleeping arrangements likely to be like?

[juliet]

What happens is, you leave Panic at 2, you get on the Oxford Tube at 2.15 or thereabouts, & you sleep on there. Then you find your way home from one of the stops in Central London at 3.30 or so. It has disadvantages, I'll admit, but it does mean you get back for work the next day.

[lnr]

Richard and I have both booked the Thursday off work, 'cos we're wimps. And getting back to Cambridge is faffier than getting back to London. So we're definitely up for it now.

[juliet]

Hurrah! It's become a PLAN, like, properly & everything. I think I may have acquired another couple of interested parties last night, as well. My head's slightly fuzzy, though, so I can't remember properly.