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Defeat or strategic retreat?
Mar. 10th, 2006 12:22 pmI'm about to do something that may permanently kill a cherished idea. Or possibly be its salvation, I don't know.
I want to initiate a new Team Wench event - the Dickens Tea modelled off of JK's old Dickens parties. There is a fair amount of interest in TW and a lot of interest in the costuming community that remembers the parties fondly. I have open-ended promises to help from two people, one of whom is JK, but neither of whom is a Team Wench member. Indeed, when I put out the first call for helpers, I got *no* responses at all.
I keep thinking that I need to keep beating the drum for this, and if I want it to live, that's exactly what I must do. But I keep putting if off, and I'm not sure why.
In the meantime, I've got Shore Leave to deal with (and gearing up for that is also behind schedule, although I can catch up if I work my tail off this week) and I just got reminded today of someone who is patiently waiting for me to fulfill a two-year-old promise. This is supposed to be the year I do all that kind of thing - make my belated word good, streamline Shore Leave a little more, catch up. And I'm wondering if I've bitten off far more than I can chew to try to deal with years worth of back duties and adding a TW event that's going to call for a lot of time and attention. And so I'm seriously considering pushing back the Dickens Tea for one more year.
But I came up with the idea last September, and started mentioning it then. I'm afraid that if I don't do something big and splashy, people are going to think that I'm either not serious or that it isn't serious.
But on the third hand... I've got a lot on my plate right now and a new job to boot. I have no idea what I will or won't be able to do as I settle in, and I've got a lot of things that Must Be Done by Memorial Day, period.
But, damnit... the tea's a good idea and I want it to live. The Prepare for Fair yard sale lived... but I thought of, advertised, got buy in, and pulled it together in something like 5 months.
Waffle, stress, waffle, stress, waffle, stress...
ETA: Bless you Delinda, that's the answer! I shall continue to drum up support all this year for the Inaugural Team Wench Dickens Tea on December 8, 2007. The proceeds to be donated to the American Heart Assn.
(That, quite frankly, also allows me time to start doing fundraising for the initial layout; we're going to need a minimum of $600 to get our mitts on a site.)
I want to initiate a new Team Wench event - the Dickens Tea modelled off of JK's old Dickens parties. There is a fair amount of interest in TW and a lot of interest in the costuming community that remembers the parties fondly. I have open-ended promises to help from two people, one of whom is JK, but neither of whom is a Team Wench member. Indeed, when I put out the first call for helpers, I got *no* responses at all.
I keep thinking that I need to keep beating the drum for this, and if I want it to live, that's exactly what I must do. But I keep putting if off, and I'm not sure why.
In the meantime, I've got Shore Leave to deal with (and gearing up for that is also behind schedule, although I can catch up if I work my tail off this week) and I just got reminded today of someone who is patiently waiting for me to fulfill a two-year-old promise. This is supposed to be the year I do all that kind of thing - make my belated word good, streamline Shore Leave a little more, catch up. And I'm wondering if I've bitten off far more than I can chew to try to deal with years worth of back duties and adding a TW event that's going to call for a lot of time and attention. And so I'm seriously considering pushing back the Dickens Tea for one more year.
But I came up with the idea last September, and started mentioning it then. I'm afraid that if I don't do something big and splashy, people are going to think that I'm either not serious or that it isn't serious.
But on the third hand... I've got a lot on my plate right now and a new job to boot. I have no idea what I will or won't be able to do as I settle in, and I've got a lot of things that Must Be Done by Memorial Day, period.
But, damnit... the tea's a good idea and I want it to live. The Prepare for Fair yard sale lived... but I thought of, advertised, got buy in, and pulled it together in something like 5 months.
Waffle, stress, waffle, stress, waffle, stress...
ETA: Bless you Delinda, that's the answer! I shall continue to drum up support all this year for the Inaugural Team Wench Dickens Tea on December 8, 2007. The proceeds to be donated to the American Heart Assn.
(That, quite frankly, also allows me time to start doing fundraising for the initial layout; we're going to need a minimum of $600 to get our mitts on a site.)
