OTW Volunteering and the Passing of Time
Dec. 7th, 2014 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engA couple days ago, for International Volunteer Day, the OTW thanked its volunteers. Part of this meant that I got an e-mail thanking me for over three years of service, and went no... It hasn't been three years. It has?
I started volunteering as a tagwrangler over three years ago, and apparently feel like I started volunteering somewhere around six months ago, despite the fact that I was part of the Category Change Workgroup for like two years.
I like volunteering - in case anyone's wondering - and I like tagwrangling - I get to organise things, how much of my time it takes up is pretty adaptable, and one of the perks is seeing tags and fics that I might not, normally.
Putting numbers together, adding up the time, is just very strange, I often find. I am totally aware that my first decade of journalling is coming up in a couple years but the part where that meant that I had known some people for about that same amount of time was somehow totally shocking to me, like - "No, no, I met you like a month ago, three default icons/hair styles ago..." - this strange contradiction - and there are other people I feel like I've known for longer, and it's so bizarre.
I have been having a lot of time and friendship and fandom feels this weekend. Y'all are lovely.
(I am relatively certain that this is the first time I've discussed volunteering with the OTW publicly; I made the decision recently that I wanted to be more public with it. I am still sort of figuring out what that means.)
I started volunteering as a tagwrangler over three years ago, and apparently feel like I started volunteering somewhere around six months ago, despite the fact that I was part of the Category Change Workgroup for like two years.
I like volunteering - in case anyone's wondering - and I like tagwrangling - I get to organise things, how much of my time it takes up is pretty adaptable, and one of the perks is seeing tags and fics that I might not, normally.
Putting numbers together, adding up the time, is just very strange, I often find. I am totally aware that my first decade of journalling is coming up in a couple years but the part where that meant that I had known some people for about that same amount of time was somehow totally shocking to me, like - "No, no, I met you like a month ago, three default icons/hair styles ago..." - this strange contradiction - and there are other people I feel like I've known for longer, and it's so bizarre.
I have been having a lot of time and friendship and fandom feels this weekend. Y'all are lovely.
(I am relatively certain that this is the first time I've discussed volunteering with the OTW publicly; I made the decision recently that I wanted to be more public with it. I am still sort of figuring out what that means.)