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[Feb. 20th, 2008|10:00 pm] |
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| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Keep The Customer Satisfied, Simon & Garfunkel | ] |
Today felt long. No, scratch that. Today was long.
I got to the city about 7:45. Ducked into McDonald's for a bite of breakfast, then walked over to the ProgSoc room. Since nobody else had turned up yet, I packed up a number of items to take (primarily Kali and Bianca, but also some of CompSoc's stuff) that hadn't already been prepared.
Eventually Will turned up with a shopping trolley he'd abducted from Broadway. We packed everything we could fit onto the trolley, then took it out. We ran into Chris as we were crossing the road; I got Will to the other side then ran back to help Chris with the last of the stuff.
After we'd lugged everything across, it took us however long to get set up and ready. Probably less time than normal, in ProgSoc's case, since we had less stuff to deal with. James turned up just as we were finishing up, and didn't seem to grasp why I wasn't impressed with his "But I only just got here!" reasoning.
Multiple moderately chatoic hours followed. ProgSoc and CompSoc were both always going to be hard sells; E.G.G. has (theoretically) universal appeal, but our two tend to make the random people twitch. Will put on a fairly impressive showing, though, making a good effort from a bad lot.
In a blast from the past, I ran into Beccy. Bernadette later said something about her now attending UTS. ...Okay...?
![[info]](http://piktures.deadjournal.com/openid-profile.gif) wzdd [livejournal] turned up, paid his renewal, and chatted. We also skimmed through a copy of the TFM, noting chapters and paragraphs to be deleted, edited, and "should be the same, but give it a once over"; then noted down topics that they'd like to cover in a new version should it happen.
By the end of that process, it was time to pack up. We managed to lose my baggage straps, to my frustration. I minded the stuff while Chris and Nick dropped the first load off in the room, then we all carried the second batch. Chris managed to lose several items off the top of his pile on the way over, meaning that I had to field them.
We got in, put everything down, and unpacked. I also drew the raffle and called up the winners to tell them to collect their prizes - one of them did. Then I sat down to type the memberships into my list, while Chris installed Ubuntu onto Kali. He's like, "Yay! Things move quickly!"
At the end of that, we finally got a chance to collapse. At least till we decided to take down the last of the posters on the CompSoc walls. We only took a little of the paint with it. However, the adhesive from the sticky tape got all over our hands. While Chris was washing his hands, a woman wandered past and was reading the signs.
Mm: Did you want to join?
Her: ...I'm not a student.
Mm: We don't mind...
She wound up signing up, and sounded interested in coming to the meetings (from next week, anyway, once the building stops locking down so early).
After that, we collapsed a little more. Chris was supposed to heading over to Bankstown to meet a friend, but had bashed his head on the shelves and was still feeling the effects; so he called her to cancel. We then wandered over to E.G.G. and hung out; Chris finally got through to his father and asked his father to pick him up. I stuck around, and took advantage of the free pizza they were offering to celebrate a successful O-Day.
And now? I should be in bed, but I need a bath first. So I'm stopping.
-Mmaster
EDIT: We actually did okay for memberships. I mean, we didn't do as well as E.G.G., obviously, but I think we did about as well as last year, and that's about all that can be asked for; maybe even a little better, since there were a bunch of people that signed up for the ACS deal. About twenty recruits and five renewals. So certainly better than it could have been. |
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