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Sep. 24th, 2006 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolUm. So. My last post. Um.
Well.
I think you can hear for yourself exactly what I spent Friday night doing.
Um. Children of Man was very good though, as in 'the best film I've seen all year' good. Seriously. That good and better. I might see it again, actually.
Anyway. Saturday was spent in a haze of pain and misery, essentially being curled up a ball and only emerging to buy some milk from the local and hideously expensive shop and to eat some cheese on toast. I then went to work, which was just hideously busy, but it did involve me earning nearly £40, which is a definite bonus.
However, because I am a crazy person, I signed up to work for DocSoc at the Societie's Fayre today. This involved me waking up at 8.30am and staggering out to the centre of town for the lone purpose of knocking on High Lord President Phillip's door to be recieved by another blinking committee member, who told me that Phil was still in bed. Oh yay.
Eventually, however, we all went off in the direction of the Union and set up our stall, which was right on one of the main thoroughfare. We had an inflatable Dalek propped us between us and the history society table, a remote control Dalek which we're raffling off on Wednesday, many posters and four committee members plus Phil. We were set up and ready to go!
Within a fw hours, we'd all established a patter and essentially grabbed, abused, and generally shamed ourselves for the cuase of Doctor Who. A common was was bellowing directly at people 'Do you want to fiddle with my Dalek?' and let them play with it if they didn't run off screaming and then wait for them to sign up. Another popular one was "You! Yes, you! You like Doctor Who, don't you? DON'T BE AHSAMED, WE'RE HERE TO HELP!" I also took up station opposite the table, to nab all the people hiding from us.
The phrase 'aggressive sell' springs to mind. Apparently you could hear me from the other end of the corridor ("COME AND JOIN DOCSOC! GEEK IS CHIC!"), and Phil's shouts of "COME AND FIDDLE WITH MY DALEK!" from down two flights of stairs.
And you know what? 216 members. 216. That is more than - wait for it - the Conservative party. AND the Lib Dems and Labour (I joined. is it wrong I feel a bit disappointed in myself?) COMBINED. We are in the top ten of most popular societies in our university.
I'm a bit shell-shocked. We also pulled in £145 of membership, which is more than a bit nice.
I'm so tired and my throat is aching now, though. I also have to go to work tomorrow and sign up for exciting things like lectures tomorrow, and that is going to actually kill me dead I think. The evening is then full of things like creating a DocSoc mailing list. Fun!
I think it is time to go and rescue my laundry from the embrace of the shared laundry room. The day before lectures and everyone is panicking. Odd, that.
~Hathy_Col~
Well.
I think you can hear for yourself exactly what I spent Friday night doing.
Um. Children of Man was very good though, as in 'the best film I've seen all year' good. Seriously. That good and better. I might see it again, actually.
Anyway. Saturday was spent in a haze of pain and misery, essentially being curled up a ball and only emerging to buy some milk from the local and hideously expensive shop and to eat some cheese on toast. I then went to work, which was just hideously busy, but it did involve me earning nearly £40, which is a definite bonus.
However, because I am a crazy person, I signed up to work for DocSoc at the Societie's Fayre today. This involved me waking up at 8.30am and staggering out to the centre of town for the lone purpose of knocking on High Lord President Phillip's door to be recieved by another blinking committee member, who told me that Phil was still in bed. Oh yay.
Eventually, however, we all went off in the direction of the Union and set up our stall, which was right on one of the main thoroughfare. We had an inflatable Dalek propped us between us and the history society table, a remote control Dalek which we're raffling off on Wednesday, many posters and four committee members plus Phil. We were set up and ready to go!
Within a fw hours, we'd all established a patter and essentially grabbed, abused, and generally shamed ourselves for the cuase of Doctor Who. A common was was bellowing directly at people 'Do you want to fiddle with my Dalek?' and let them play with it if they didn't run off screaming and then wait for them to sign up. Another popular one was "You! Yes, you! You like Doctor Who, don't you? DON'T BE AHSAMED, WE'RE HERE TO HELP!" I also took up station opposite the table, to nab all the people hiding from us.
The phrase 'aggressive sell' springs to mind. Apparently you could hear me from the other end of the corridor ("COME AND JOIN DOCSOC! GEEK IS CHIC!"), and Phil's shouts of "COME AND FIDDLE WITH MY DALEK!" from down two flights of stairs.
And you know what? 216 members. 216. That is more than - wait for it - the Conservative party. AND the Lib Dems and Labour (I joined. is it wrong I feel a bit disappointed in myself?) COMBINED. We are in the top ten of most popular societies in our university.
I'm a bit shell-shocked. We also pulled in £145 of membership, which is more than a bit nice.
I'm so tired and my throat is aching now, though. I also have to go to work tomorrow and sign up for exciting things like lectures tomorrow, and that is going to actually kill me dead I think. The evening is then full of things like creating a DocSoc mailing list. Fun!
I think it is time to go and rescue my laundry from the embrace of the shared laundry room. The day before lectures and everyone is panicking. Odd, that.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-09-24 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 07:48 pm (UTC)You should make one.
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Date: 2006-09-24 07:51 pm (UTC)Hh, I'm on the committee, imagine how I feel!
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Date: 2006-09-24 08:21 pm (UTC)FredRomana. His nickname is Doc. Seriously....no subject
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Date: 2006-09-25 10:33 am (UTC)Was that Labour you said you joined? Nice one! We need more people around to pick up the pieces... :p
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Date: 2006-09-25 01:13 pm (UTC)Labour indeed! That was the reason I joined, to be honest...
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