2 posts tagged “ema”

I am currently running around the house trying to get used to the incredible weight of the chainmail hauberk I have to wear for the The Adventures of Silence.  We will be performing a scene from it this Friday at the EMA Banquet.  This stuff is really heavy and really dirty but its also very fluid and expect for adjusting to the added weight, I can move as easily as if I weren't wearing it.  I tried to wear the coif, but it's a little to big and covers my eyes.  I'm  not sure how we're going to work that one out.  Anyway, fun times and I definitely feel less..slicable...

Good question.  Different reasons on different days.  This day - and most of this week probably - it's because of the EMA Fall Banquet.  I (the officers will help too) have to get final numbers on attendees and entree counts, decide on salad and dessert, remember who has and hasn't paid me, work up seating arrangments, work out a meal ID system, make name cards for each person attending, figure out what extra equipment we'll need and how much that's going to cost,  figure out how much this whole thing is going to cost us, gather all the money, make the deposit, send out a reminder email, buy new shoes, be fully prepared to act out a scene from a play as part of the presentation...is there anything else?  I hope not.

I can't complain though (and I'm not really, mostly just listing) because this is one of the highlights of the semester for me.  For most people attending its just a nice thing to do on a Friday night.  For me though this is something that's really important and a big accomplishment.  Before last year the EMA was a pretty inactive group.  They got together once a semester or so, went to a conference, and had a book sale, but from what I can tell that's about it.  Last year (when I was VP)  we had a whole new set of officers and a new advisor and we were fired up about the possibilites and potential.  One of the things we organized was the first EMA Fall Banquet - along with a lot of other firsts.  This year (I'm the Pres now)  we are having our 2nd Annual EMA Fall Banquet - over 50 professors and students will be attending.  I think this is a tradition that will carry on.  I hope so anyway.  It's really important to me to be part of creating functions and traditions that will continue on and effect the department long after I'm graduated.  I think I've succeeded in that.  I can honestly say that I feel that I have been part and leader of a group that has had a positive effect on the Department and has created forums for community and involvement.

I'm really going to miss all this...