week in review
Feb. 13th, 2005 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamingswordI've been laid off, sort of. The school and clinic I've been working for is now only going to be open from 10 am to 6 pm weekdays (a four hour cut), and they still haven't decided what to do for Saturdays. They may be closing down sooner than we'd been lead to believe. I've been asked to come back in to work when the one remaining employee goes to California to see her dying mother. But if she hadn't been working there for six years she'd probably be getting the same shabby treatment we are. Poor lady.
So I'm looking for more employment. I've got a cell phone and business cards now, and I've called forty different places this last week. I'll be calling some fifty more this week. I'd like to work at a spa or a chiropractors office and do outcall for friends and family on the side. It may not work out that way. But we'll see.
Last night we had a meeting of all members of the coven who were initiates and above. The by-laws needed some better wording and we had some semantic issues. I'll have to re-write my ritual because of some of those definitions, but that's okay. I'm glad we've got that cleared up. Now there's a lot more to fix in the form of inter-coven politics. Due to the natural tendency to clique up with those you feel connected to and the fact that we have eight regular attendees and four people who are there 6/10 times, we're getting a need for some form of structure. This group doesn't do well with structure. We're organized along Celtic Matrifocal lines. It's organized like a family and not a corporation. I'm thinking that maybe if the standard response is to take the two people who are least emotionally connected and make them work together to present a class then the enforced bonding will bind the whole group closer. I'm glad we're not going outside the 13 initiate rule, though. This sort of cellular organization wouldn't work in higher numbers.
I guess this is my first chance to tamper with the attachment dynamic of a group to make entropy work along with the order. I've been busily not-thinking about it, feeling out the edges of this idea carefully. Some ideas can't be hurried or forced and I'm not going to try it with this. It's going to be a big thing. I can feel it. I just hope it works when I finally know what it is.
So I'm looking for more employment. I've got a cell phone and business cards now, and I've called forty different places this last week. I'll be calling some fifty more this week. I'd like to work at a spa or a chiropractors office and do outcall for friends and family on the side. It may not work out that way. But we'll see.
Last night we had a meeting of all members of the coven who were initiates and above. The by-laws needed some better wording and we had some semantic issues. I'll have to re-write my ritual because of some of those definitions, but that's okay. I'm glad we've got that cleared up. Now there's a lot more to fix in the form of inter-coven politics. Due to the natural tendency to clique up with those you feel connected to and the fact that we have eight regular attendees and four people who are there 6/10 times, we're getting a need for some form of structure. This group doesn't do well with structure. We're organized along Celtic Matrifocal lines. It's organized like a family and not a corporation. I'm thinking that maybe if the standard response is to take the two people who are least emotionally connected and make them work together to present a class then the enforced bonding will bind the whole group closer. I'm glad we're not going outside the 13 initiate rule, though. This sort of cellular organization wouldn't work in higher numbers.
I guess this is my first chance to tamper with the attachment dynamic of a group to make entropy work along with the order. I've been busily not-thinking about it, feeling out the edges of this idea carefully. Some ideas can't be hurried or forced and I'm not going to try it with this. It's going to be a big thing. I can feel it. I just hope it works when I finally know what it is.
