Time to get my hip-waders on. I think I am in high waters again.

Good-Wooden Leg often reminds me of high school. We have sports teams, clubs, a choir, and it feels kind of lame to sit by yourself in the cafeteria.

I was a joiner in my school years. I did career committee, yearbook, badminton, curling, and I was in charge of advertising for the sports awards luncheon (which subsequently lead me to consider a career in the field).

My joiner spirit carries on, mostly motivated now by the desire to gain experience useful to my career. I recently put my name in for a volunteer position on the Staff Club Executive Committee, the team that manages all the teams and clubs at Good-Wooden. It was serious business: I had to send in a resume and get my leaders to give their blessings on this endeavor.

I was deemed worthy and accepted to take on the role of Information Coordinator. (You have no idea how hard it is to spell "coordinator" without a hyphen. Good-Wooden's style guide is under my skin, but apparently the Staff Club does not follow it.)

My impression of the Information Coordinator was someone who sent out e-mails to the department staff reps letting them know that registration for the hockey team was starting, or the date and details of the Children's Christmas Party. Some mention was made of updating things on the internal website.

Hahahahaha.

I had my orientation today with the outgoing Information Coordinator. Yes, I will send out e-mails, but I also have mailboxes and a calendar to manage for all the other staff club executives. And the website? Oh it's not just type and post like I do when I blog or update the Red Shoe House site. I have to work in HTML, and send things to a server, and oye. I'm a smart girl, I can do this, but it's going to take some time.

At my first meeting today that followed my orientation people were asking last year's Info guy if he could set something up for them, get something posted, set up a security level, blah blah blah. Oh dear I hope he leaves me some good notes.

On another note, someone brought up a communication piece they sent out that didn't really work. I think they thought that if they put it on green paper, added a picture, and ensured it was delivered to every staff member's mailbox, that it would get read and the phones would ring. Green paper does not a communications piece make. Now that, I know.

So maybe I won't be able to bring the same skills to the table that the last guy did, but hopefully my other strengths and knowledge will shine through and prove helpful.

And if not, well, I get to enjoy some free fancy lunches and two free tickets to the company dinner and dance (!!)