One post after dinner with Fish
Wednesday, 07 June, 2006
Apologies. I didn't quite get to the end of it before we had to leave. Continuing ...
I was talking about the FEVA Black Tie dinner. When registration was over, we took one of the tables inside and set up the computers on it. Pete D, who was stressed and was looking after all the registrations, told me to go join a table so I still got to enjoy the delicious food for free which felt very wrong (I was supposed to be volunteering my services!!) but was still lovely nonetheless. I ended up on a table with some ex-CBS-ers—Chris B and Richard K, plus the Morrison twins were about somewhere. Ian had brought a table of people from his church which included Denise so I was able to catch up with her. (She wanted to know why there is an asterisk next to her name on my blogroll. I told her it was to remind me to check her blog because when I put it there, she didn't have RSS. Which reminds me, I really ought to update it because there are a few people there who now have RSS but who still have asterisks.)
Everything went pretty smoothly this year and I was very satisfied with the balance of hearing about the FEVA ministry with time to socialise with everyone else and the tradition of auctioning off services and other things. The only thing I bid on was a necklace in the silent auction which I was hoping I might be able to give to my mother but I was out-bid. Later in the evening, I helped Pete process all the payments and donations. It was wonderful to see people being so generous and vigorous in their support of the ministry. At the end, with the assistance of Pete's wife (who I remembered from Wollongong Uni), we totalled everything up, triple-checked it and signed off on it. We were told that, from the final figures, it was the most successful Black Tie dinner ever.
Then we took Xenia and some of her friends home (they had been acting as waitresses) and got home at around midnight.
On Sunday we slept in, watched some more of Firefly, I tried to write a bit more of my graphic novel and then it was time for church. I didn't really feel like talking to people so instead I helped with the cleaning. And then my leave was over.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Would be great if you were to post up a few frames from your graphic novel…
I’m debating whether or not to do that. On the one hand, I don’t really want to share my terrible drawings with the world. So then I was thinking of putting up the script. But then you miss all the visual stuff ... *sigh*. I’ll think about it some more.