OK, so one of the things I have to do for the alumni club is set up our volunteering time, which is in March. We pack food, and we love it, but it's so popular that I have to reserve online months in advance or else I'll miss out.
For the past, oh, month or so I have reminded myself I have to get on this. I remember not doing so two years ago and practically begging the site manager to wedge us in. I learned my lesson last year and reserved in plenty of time: Mid-January for our mid-March date. But I knew that this place gets more and more popular to easily volunteer your time with each passing year, so this time around I knew I had to reserve as early as possible, certainly before mid-January. But just a bunch of shit connected with the holidays pushed that out of my mind till this morning. OK, maybe not, maybe I just was lazy and forgot.
At any rate, this morning at work I thought about getting on it. There are no spots for the time and place I want to do this. My God, we're nine weeks out and I'm already too goddamn late.
So now I harken back to what the site manager told me two years ago: Check back frequently in case there are cancellations, and in the end, if our group is small enough, they'll have mercy on us and squeeze us in. I guess I have that as a fallback plan, but I have to be diligent about checking their website every day so I can reserve any spots given up and sign up the "right" way. But I just wished that I could have avoided this teeth-gnashing limbo. Maybe I should have signed up around Christmas, or December. Fuck if I know.
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