YAG's Drag Show and Other Stuff
It's been a short while since I last updated. Since then, I have successfully helped to put on a drag show here at NSU.
We apparently impressed both Laura Boren, the Dean of Student Affairs, with the show we put on. We also impressed President Betz. They want to give us more funding, from what I understand; I will be verifying this tomorrow. Tammie, YAG's advisor, was incredibly happy and gave me a bear hug when I told her the total amount of money that was in the lock-box two hours into the show.
We spent RHA's donation of $150 on supplies. We also spent our Living Learning Community fund, $250, as ordered by Tammie. The LLC fund spending will be reimbursed to our lock-box now.
Before the start of the show, we had $150 in the lock-box.
The total after the show was $1241.56.
Roughly $625 of that will be donated to pay for the visit of six panels of the AIDs quilt to NSU's three campuses. The LLC fund ($250) and the original funds within the lock-box ($150) will remain within the lock-box. Thus, we have actually made a nice profit this year: $216.56.
Did I mention our organization had maybe ten people show up to run this huge event?
Did I mention that Cody, the president of YAG, and I were the only two who organized the entire event?
I am very glad it's over, and I am even happier that things went well. Compliments came from all around--students, teachers, visitors. We had no protesters show up this year.
The only major flub-ups were:
1) The drag queens (and king!) showed up nearly an hour late, despite our telling them that the drag show started an hour earlier than it actually did.
2) The spotlight failed. The bulb burnt out. The replacement spotlight had no bulb. There were no extras. We worked with what we had to work with: lights that dimmed.
The decorations went over well. Out of the 580 strands of mardi gras beads that I ordered, only ten strands made it back to my room, and that was because they were on the ticket table. People obviously were not aware that they could take them. All of the coins were gone. The gems disappeared, except for the small handful that I squirreled away.
I'm okay with this, though; it was less for me to haul back to my dorm.
All in all, it went well. I have a meeting with Tammie tomorrow, so I should be able to verify our current funding. YAG is going to have an ice cream and pizza party just for the hell of it.
Yes.
Izumicon 2010 will be my last Izumicon. It was fun, but that was only because of the people I went and stayed with. The Kuroshitsuji group was amazing. Everyone looked wonderfully beautiful, and I was admittedly jealous of how well everyone cosplays. It was amusing to see Joey dressed as Agni. :3 I enjoyed spending time with Sarah, Joey, and David--a lot. I felt like I hadn't seen them in forever. Of course, I also enjoyed spending time with Alicia, too. :) ♥ I didn't cosplay, but now I am inspired to as soon as I obtain funding. I have an entire list of characters I am aiming to cosplay in the near future.
This semester is nearing its close. I have three major projects left: a paper in American Lit II, a Web 2.0 Tools assignment for Tech in Ed, and a SMART board assignment in Tech in Ed. Other than that, classes will be pretty easy until finals, and even then, they will simply feature tests similar to ones taken earlier in the semester.
I am also attempting to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I have around 12,000 words so far, but I haven't been able to write anything since November 1st, really. With the combination of the drag show, Izumicon, and general classwork, writing for leisure is a luxury. I am confident I will be up to 20,000-25,000 words by the end of this weekend, and I will most definitely have over 50,000 by the end of next week--Thanksgiving break.
I say this, but something will happen to stop me from reaching that goal. XD Here's to hoping I succeed.
I hope everyone who still reads this is doing well. :) ♥
We apparently impressed both Laura Boren, the Dean of Student Affairs, with the show we put on. We also impressed President Betz. They want to give us more funding, from what I understand; I will be verifying this tomorrow. Tammie, YAG's advisor, was incredibly happy and gave me a bear hug when I told her the total amount of money that was in the lock-box two hours into the show.
We spent RHA's donation of $150 on supplies. We also spent our Living Learning Community fund, $250, as ordered by Tammie. The LLC fund spending will be reimbursed to our lock-box now.
Before the start of the show, we had $150 in the lock-box.
The total after the show was $1241.56.
Roughly $625 of that will be donated to pay for the visit of six panels of the AIDs quilt to NSU's three campuses. The LLC fund ($250) and the original funds within the lock-box ($150) will remain within the lock-box. Thus, we have actually made a nice profit this year: $216.56.
Did I mention our organization had maybe ten people show up to run this huge event?
Did I mention that Cody, the president of YAG, and I were the only two who organized the entire event?
I am very glad it's over, and I am even happier that things went well. Compliments came from all around--students, teachers, visitors. We had no protesters show up this year.
The only major flub-ups were:
1) The drag queens (and king!) showed up nearly an hour late, despite our telling them that the drag show started an hour earlier than it actually did.
2) The spotlight failed. The bulb burnt out. The replacement spotlight had no bulb. There were no extras. We worked with what we had to work with: lights that dimmed.
The decorations went over well. Out of the 580 strands of mardi gras beads that I ordered, only ten strands made it back to my room, and that was because they were on the ticket table. People obviously were not aware that they could take them. All of the coins were gone. The gems disappeared, except for the small handful that I squirreled away.
I'm okay with this, though; it was less for me to haul back to my dorm.
All in all, it went well. I have a meeting with Tammie tomorrow, so I should be able to verify our current funding. YAG is going to have an ice cream and pizza party just for the hell of it.
Yes.
Izumicon 2010 will be my last Izumicon. It was fun, but that was only because of the people I went and stayed with. The Kuroshitsuji group was amazing. Everyone looked wonderfully beautiful, and I was admittedly jealous of how well everyone cosplays. It was amusing to see Joey dressed as Agni. :3 I enjoyed spending time with Sarah, Joey, and David--a lot. I felt like I hadn't seen them in forever. Of course, I also enjoyed spending time with Alicia, too. :) ♥ I didn't cosplay, but now I am inspired to as soon as I obtain funding. I have an entire list of characters I am aiming to cosplay in the near future.
This semester is nearing its close. I have three major projects left: a paper in American Lit II, a Web 2.0 Tools assignment for Tech in Ed, and a SMART board assignment in Tech in Ed. Other than that, classes will be pretty easy until finals, and even then, they will simply feature tests similar to ones taken earlier in the semester.
I am also attempting to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I have around 12,000 words so far, but I haven't been able to write anything since November 1st, really. With the combination of the drag show, Izumicon, and general classwork, writing for leisure is a luxury. I am confident I will be up to 20,000-25,000 words by the end of this weekend, and I will most definitely have over 50,000 by the end of next week--Thanksgiving break.
I say this, but something will happen to stop me from reaching that goal. XD Here's to hoping I succeed.
I hope everyone who still reads this is doing well. :) ♥