Hi, I've Got ADD

Undiagnosed, of course. Because really, who gets tested for that kinda thing? And who has time to take pills? I barely have time in the morning to get out of bed and get dressed, let alone pop a handful of pills. You know how it goes. Alarm goes off, you hit the snooze. Then you hear those birds outside and you can't actually get back to sleep.

The birds on campus start up their chirping at about 4 a.m. When you're trying to get to sleep at 4:30 a.m. after laying out the newspaper, it's really hard with the damned birds chirping. It's just another frustration on top of having errors on your pages and having to redo them over and over and still knowing there will be something wrong when it goes to print.

And then people complain about it and you just want to scream because they have no idea how difficult it is to produce the level of quality they're currently holding. We've got maybe 10-15 people who actively work with us; the others just swing by when they feel like it.

Apathy's a huge problem. I had to fight it in high school when I was involved in clubs. No one ever played chess at Chest Club. No one in anime club ever wanted to participate in events. Organizing Seito ChibiCon in 2008 was really difficult because I was supposed to be working with a handful of other high school anime club presidents but they all flaked, so I ended up doing everything from arranging prizes from companies like Dark Horse Manga to securing a location. And of course the school doesn't take us seriously because we "weren't a purposeful club."

I hate it when people assume they know everything about you or your cause and treat you in line with it. Assumptions are the number one reason for miscommunication and related failures. They never stop to really figure out what's going on and hence miss the bigger picture. Ego plays a lot into it too--that's why we can't get anything done with the damned government.

...sorry, April Fools on the Internet distracted me for a half hour or so. What were we talking about? Government, right. How about that "fucking big deal" that got passed a week or so ago? Exciting news for me, even if it's a single step forward. That first step is usually the hardest.

Speaking of news, I need to go distribute the Index. I was up until 4:30 a.m. Wednesday morning putting that dratted thing together and I'll be darned if people don't read it.

Bye!