Well, this should be interesting

So, I'm the new President.

*pauses for a moment to think about this*

It feels good, actually. A little scary, yeah, considering what we're going to be going through, but good. I feel good about working with Brian on the administrative issues. I feel good about the board members we have and what we're all doing. I feel like I can easily get along with everyone.

There are a LOT of things I've been thinking about lately. A lot of ideas, a lot of work, a lot of brainstorming that needs to be done. And I do want to be a visible presence in the chorus, which I think should be no problem. There's a decent chance I may spend many nights holed up with the laptop in the back of the room, keeping an eye on things and being available while still getting some other work done. It would be best if we manage to move rehearsals to a different location-- one which has wireless net coverage-- but I can try to work around that.

Over the next several days, I'm going to work out what kind of resources and help I'm going to need from people to make this work-- both on the site end of things, and the chorus end. Generally speaking, chorus will be taking precedence, though there will definitely be days where the site is the priority.

I'm going to make it work, though. I love what I'm doing, and I love what I will be doing. I hope I can earn confidence from everyone. It's going to be a wild year.

Stuff

With my new position comes some new responsibility, and one of those things is going to be keeping chorus-related discussions to the appropriate fora. However, this being my journal, there will still be times I need to personally rant. So I'm going to create a friends filter for those posts. This will be totally off-the-record personal-type stuff, but it's going to be of a sensitive nature, and therefore only a few people that I completely trust will be on that filter. Please, *please* don't take it personally if you're not on that filter. Most everything else chorus-business-related will be conducted on the board list, as it should be, and anyone who wants to can join that.

Item #2 is that I'm going to be spending the next couple of weeks or so shifting priorities around and making room in my life for this. However, I will also be out of town from the 16th-20th doing ComiCon, and so I'll be basically incommunicado during that time. This next two weeks is a rampup time for me, so please understand that I'll need that time to get all my ducks in a row. I won't be able to tackle in-depth or long-range issues just yet.

I now have a new email addy for chorus-related business: slwchorus@insanity-inc.org

This is the best way to contact me for chorus stuff. Personal email is still shawna@insanity-inc.org and fandom email is still msallegro@bagendinn.com

Calling me is useful in emergencies, but otherwise doesn't really help much because frankly I don't retain things I hear over the phone very well. If you'd like to have an actual meeting with me for something, whether that's phone or in person, email me to schedule that. Half the time I don't even answer my phone anyway because I'm in the middle of something else.