I was on the setup and cleanup crew for the Jimmy Eat World concert @ Creighton last night and I have something to say about the leadership. I think that if you want a group of people to help, you should ask for the people, rather than incorrectly asking for a portion of the people. This was exemplified last night when the CSU board kept asking for people who were in ASO to help. While ASO had agreed to crew for the concert, they also picked up SEVERAL extra volunteers (myself included) to help them out. So, every time ASO was asked to help… :shrug: I guess I could have opted out. Technically they weren’t asking for crew-members, just ASO. Why not just ask for the crew? We are all wearing t-shirts for Fallapalooza that say “CREW” on them. Anyway, I think that people should more carefully categorize each other.
While I have multiple stories related to the concert, I have only one that I wanted to share now.
Ted, one of my friends, is a taller heavier guy with hair that runs all the way to his shoulders. For some reason he reminds me a lot of my youngest brother Dominic, if Dominic were six years older. He gets into an elevator w/ Melody. Melody, previously a member of the Speech and Debate team, is not (to put it lightly) very intelligent and tends to get annoying as she will tell stories that last for ten minutes about nothing. The elevator leaves and I am waiting for the next elevator ride to take my chair up to the next floor, but the elevator returns to the wrong floor (the one I am standing on) still fully loaded because Melody pushed the wrong button. The people inside ask for directions (Melody asks, the rest look uncomfortable and awkward about asking) and the elevator looks to close again.
Right before the door closes, Ted gets a look of realization on his face – “I’ll just get out here. Thanks!” He proceeds to climb over the furniture they have loaded into the elevator as Melody and others protest. Ted sees me with the chair and hoists the chair that I am standing w/ into the elevator saying- “Here, now you have room for Nat’s.”
Elevator closes and Ted says- “I just had to get out of that elevator!” We walked back to the other work area laughing.
I guess I just found it interesting, because I still have managed to not interact w/ Melody very much, but even my new friends seem to end up trying to avoid her.
Highlights of the MANY comments- ”She just told me my hips are small, and that was awkward.”-Kim
:sees Melody massaging someone off to the side: “I don’t even know what’s going on!”-Julie
”Maybe we could snowmobile over lakes, over dips and curves, through forests….”-Rob :goes off for another minute making fun of her ten minute snow mobile explanation:
”Who is she???”-Someone next to me
