so here is another one. Pls read this as you get to the relevant section. I want you to read this.
see you all tomorrow. 10:30 in the studio.
those were my actual words...don't know why font has gone funny. Sorry. So I wasted a morning by coming in when I thought we'd be having a meeting.
Still, nobody was posting their info on fb. It really ought to have been very simple, as I know two of them have fb on their phones. And I'm not sure what phones the others have, but if i can log onto my slow computer every five seconds as a responsible group worker would do, so could they. Were they just reading my messages, laughing and ignoring them?? I was very busy, and I was working with fb on, so it would be like we were working in a group. None of my time was taken from work by being on fb, listening for the little beepy noise that would alert me to my being taken out of Coventry. I heard no such beep.
A couple days ago, I again, for the third or maybe fourth/fifth time posted that they give me their info now. Becasue otehrwise i wasn't going to be able to do it. IN another mesage i explained clearly that the process of authoring their content, and then typing it on the typewriter was a long one. Still I was ignored.
Today, after yet again none of my group showed up or stayed to talk with each other- a sad fact made more poignant by the sight of at least three other groups in the room, working on their manifestos, some having finished and just needing to fold and finish- I felt awfully dismayed and miserable. What had my group done? Despite my efforts, we still hadn't even met once as a full group. We'd met just once with 5 out of 6 of us there (good enough for that day, cos tetley was ill) and that was in the ideas stage. I didn't and don't know what's been done, cos there's been no communication, even when I ask individuals what they've done. We haven't started to plan exaclty how we'll bind it. We've talked, and drawn it out, but not bought materials or anything cos that had to wait unitl we had the content all sorted. Is the content sorted? No. When's the deadline? two days from now.
Which brings me to my biggest bugbear.
Today, after I got home, i was determined to forget the reset of the highly-useless-from-my-point-of-view group, and do my own manifesto. But then i got home and discovered one more person had posted their info. I had to respond and say too late. There was no longer any time.
Yes i was annoyed by the whole thing, but i don't want to jeopardise the look of the manifesto by making them find their own way of typing it, but sorry, i warned them. Now it really was too late. This girl had a bit of a problem about that. Kept saying can't i do it tomorrow? can't i do it on wednesday? they've all been busy, she said. (Why not say so then? And busy doing what since she's missed a lot of our meetings?) We've got till thurs, can't i do it later?
NO, i said, cos i've got three ppl who didn't send me their stuff. Making up a whole biography for them when i know nothing of their creature is unrealistic and pointless. Writing up a profile even when i knew the info took about 45 mins, that was how long it took to commputer-type tetley's, and he sent me brilliant info. If i had nothing, it would take far longer. And i was not working slowly. Then typing always takes longer. About an hour. So, as i nicely explained, working ridiculously fast (and risking typiong mistakes with the typewriter) it would take me 6 hours. Couldn't do it today, I was doing other jobs today. can't do it tomo, we have a packed schedule tomo. Wednesday, we'd need to be putting it together, not still writing individual pages. Not forgetting binding, printing, and repreoducing two more copies. There just wasn't the time. There isn't the time.
I felt she was being very sarky. I don't know if this is the point of this blog, but i need to write it all out, as a cathartic exercise. She was making out like 'everyone is busy, so we all ahve to do what we said we would'. I gave them opportunities, didn't i? I'm not trying to be awkward, there simply isn't the time!!
She said i could have creative license. I pracically laughed. Still the point wasn't reaching home. Plus she started asking if I done the other things i was supposed to, to which i proudly answered yes, cos i've gone A and B the C of D, if you know what i mean. (above and beyond the call of duty). Then she started accusing me, saying maybe i should hve just written one history for all of us, as an organisation. HELLO? This is why seh should have met up more often, and read my messages? I did that a week and a half ago!!
She suggested, under my 'creative license', the profiles could be much shorter than the others. I said if they are, and we have the time, no probs. But still, making it all up from scratch is too hard. As a compromise, I asked what she was doing today. She could write her own short thing, and that would make it a lot easier for me to simply type it. Her response?
No she was too busy doing the things she'd agreed to do.
I live a christian life, so i won't swear. I never swear. But my-oh-my... the CHEEK!!! I was going to just leave it. She'd said see you tomorrow and ended our convo with two kisses. Odd. But my self-respect wouldn't let me and so i said that was a shame, because we were all supposed to write our pwn profiles originally but WHATEVER. xx
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