Alum chapter stream of conciousness sorta vent

[33girl]

I just woke up from a nap, so bear with me if this gets wordy or nonsensical.

The alum chapter that I'm pres of is pretty much inactive right now. We were founded basically so we could have a voice in some of the things that were happening on the national level and so we could do community service and such as a group. I am here to tell you trying to keep it going has been damn frustrating.

the first thing has just been trying to find a meeting place...as other Pittsburghers know this isn't the easiest place to get around in. Meeting at restaurants gets a little expensive after a while, we don't have access to anything like a classroom, and I'm not crazy about meeting at people's houses. Not only do we all live on back roads, I don't feel comfortable having a meeting when the hostess's 2 kids are running around nekkid after their bedtime bath. That would be one thing if it was all people from our college chapter, but I am trying to bring in people from all chapters and I don't want them to feel weird. Who knows, maybe that is just my hangup - if so please tell me.

I've gotten very sick of scheduling meetings to have one person show up, asking people to check out things for us to do and not getting back to me, and all the people who said they were so into this not being even able to give an RSVP to a meeting. I'm scared to even look into anything at this point for fear no one will show...and then I have people wondering why we aren't doing anything.

There are issues related to our college chapter too, and I don't know quite how to tell people to take 5 years ago and leave it there...I'm not saying forget things but it's hard to try and stay positive if people are going to be cranky all the time.

at this point, I don't even know how to go forward. I feel like I'm turning into Charlie Manson about the whole thing (albeit a cleaner, less homicidal Charlie Manson) and I don't want to...I want to just have someone else run the show because I'm beginning to feel this is really not my forte.

blaaagh.