helping hand

i might be gone this whole summer. in fact, i'm counting on it. i want to go to taiwan and teach english. altho as a job this time. not like last year in china. anyway. i've already filled and sent out a couple applications and also emailed over 30 job employers trying to set this up. but all this means that i probably won't be here for dragon boat this summer. which sucks because i think this'll be the first long beach annual tourney i've missed. and actually. it sucks even more because phil (our team captain) is thinking about stepping down because his work might make him travel a lot. the last time he missed a tourney i took over as captain. and i'd love for that to happen again this year. unfortunately... and like, if phil does step down. and if i'm not here this year. then if this ever happens in the future then i won't be captain. it'll be whoever it was this year . :( i guess is okay. i'll still be an officer. and of course i'll have the women's team: pms. :) i wanted to be 'no seamen' but decided that might be too witty. anyway, out of pms (putting men to shame), woot (women on one team), war (women are rowers), pow (power on water), and wtf (we the females), our team voted for pms. :) and lol, yeah, you can see that i help come up wit a couple of those team names.

 

anyway, so our team has always had a bit of a problem wit fundraising. we usually only have one car wash. and that's it. it brings in quite a bit, but still, you can never have too many funds, right? so this year i was thinking a book sale. i kno, it won't bring in much. but it's easy to set up, it doesn't take many people to run, and watever we don't sell we donate. so even if we make near nothing at least 1) people cleaned off their bookshelves and 2) some library gets pretty lucky.

 

the point is, tho, that some people think it's a little weird i'm setting up this fundraiser even tho i might not be here this summer. i think it's perfectly normal. i mean.. i've always been part of this team. i've always beenan officer in it. and it's not as if i'm quitting. i just might not be here to participate. but i'd like to. if at all possible, i'd love it if i could fly back the weekend of and row my ass off. course. that's not reasonable. anyway. i just wanted to explain myself a lil.

 

one more thing. if you have any books or magazines you'd like to donate please contact me! or if you just like to read and would like to support us by showing up and buying something then i'd be forever indebted to you. :)