Today we had a volunteer meeting for Sex 2.0. Including me, there were seven people in attendance. I was happy that there was such a good turnout! We put together name badges (which were printed last night on the beautiful template Rusty created), went over basic rules (e.g., be a hard-ass about time limits on sessions), and talked about what people would do on their specific “shifts” (and acknowledged that a large part of the volunteer role is helping me not freak out). I felt a bit awkward and nervous, and hoped I didn’t seem too disorganized. I was also getting flustered because often people seemed to be having several conversations at once. I know that tends to happen when you get a group of a certain size, but it makes it difficult for me to concentrate on any of the conversations. And it made me worry that maybe I wasn’t coming across as a confident organizer.
Even though I am full of worry about Sex 2.0, I’m also very excited. I truly think it will be an amazing event. One guy I did an interview with a few days ago called it a “watershed event.” Woohoo!
I’m still afraid that people will get pissed about stuff I can’t control (e.g., if the wifi is slow or not working), or about stuff they should’ve known but didn’t take the time to read the web site, or other stuff, and take it out on me because I’m the organizer after all. I’m trying to remember that you can’t please everyone, and if people decide to whine instead of being proactive, that’s their problem. But like my therapist said a few weeks ago, it’s not useful to tell me not to take things personally, because that’s just how I am. I will take things personally. Especially when it’s something like Sex 2.0, which is basically my labor of love come to fruition. (Wow, what’s with the birthing metaphor?)
But. The bottom line: Sex 2.0 will be great.
Oh… I should also mention that I completed my 365 Days project about a week ago. I did miss a few days over the course of the year, but only about ten total. I still haven’t uploaded all the photos - I need to go through iPhoto and do that - but eventually I’ll put up a link to the full Flickr set.
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