Thoughts on Retirement
I'm very glad to be done with the last JSU event of the year. It really wasn't my job to deal with the JSU BBQ anyway, but for some reason I still felt obligated. I guess it's just force of habbit. Hard to believe it's been a whole year since I first took office. I guess moving away to NY will be a good thing insofar as I won't feel a nagging guilt when I'm not spending every waking minute doing something with Hillel or JSU. On the other hand I'll miss the power I used to wield as the mighty JSU president. Oh wait, that was in my dreams :-P
Seriously though, I'll miss knowing everybody and being known by everybody. It was a nice feeling for a while. I hope at least for this one year the JSU board didn't seem cliquey and unapproachable. It seems that's the usual trend around Davis Hillel and if I broke the tradition for even one year I'll consider it a year well spent. Eh, who am I kidding? I'm sure there were people who felt left out. Such is life I suppose. This is just my feeble attempt at convincing the world I tried I guess.
On a related note, having now gone from having no life, to having a life, to giving up the life again, I've determined having a life is a superior state of affairs. I gave up all my weekends for JSU stuff this year instead of the cozy little get togethers and dinners I grew so fond of last year. I think I probably did more for the community last year than this year in spite of the presidency. Ok. I learned my lesson. But now what? I have to figure out how to get my life back again. And I've made quite a mess of it over the last year. Oh well. Maybe I'll get things straightened out this summer. Or maybe I'll die in a car accident like one of my friends dreamed would happen. That would be quite a miracle though since my car doesn't even run right now. I'm going to definitely miss all the people *sigh*.
By the way, I've gone totally senile. I got a phone call a few minutes ago and by the end (it was a 2 min call) I forgot why I'd been called.
