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Box Score: 80% done
Oct. 16th, 2013 01:00 amI have been working on writing thank-you cards to everyone who helped with Animé Los Angeles 9, our convention in January 2013.
By my tally there are 470 to write, by the time I finish this.
I've been printing mailing labels as I need them, and I have some spiffy notecards that have a photo taken at the 2013 convention of myself and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
library_lynn. Writing out the personalized messages takes some time, though. I've been at it for three weeks, so I'm quite pleased that I have made it through as many as I have!
Some years I don't finish the list. All it really takes is making it a priority, and breaking it up into manageable chunks.
It's been suggested that I write a form letter, and mail-merge the names onto them, and then give each one a handwritten signature. Nope. That's not how I roll. The way I see it, I don't "run" a 5001-person convention. Hundreds of volunteers, staff people, department heads, division heads, and so forth ran this convention. If all goes well, I should be able to spend the entire weekend sitting on a couch watching everything happen around me.
We're all unpaid volunteers. We only do this for the thank we get, or whatever our personal reasons might be. I feel the very least I can do is personally thank each one of them.
I try to give out thank-you presents during the convention (a small stuffed animal) but it's difficult to even track down half of the people who make everything happen. The thank-you mailing list, though, I can work with our Admin Div./Staff Services Dept. to make sure I have as complete a list as possible (all the way down to the fans who just volunteered to help out in Artists' Alley for an hour) and I can set my hand to going though all of them.
And I'm 80% finished. Hooray!
By my tally there are 470 to write, by the time I finish this.
I've been printing mailing labels as I need them, and I have some spiffy notecards that have a photo taken at the 2013 convention of myself and
library_lynn. Writing out the personalized messages takes some time, though. I've been at it for three weeks, so I'm quite pleased that I have made it through as many as I have! Some years I don't finish the list. All it really takes is making it a priority, and breaking it up into manageable chunks.
It's been suggested that I write a form letter, and mail-merge the names onto them, and then give each one a handwritten signature. Nope. That's not how I roll. The way I see it, I don't "run" a 5001-person convention. Hundreds of volunteers, staff people, department heads, division heads, and so forth ran this convention. If all goes well, I should be able to spend the entire weekend sitting on a couch watching everything happen around me.
We're all unpaid volunteers. We only do this for the thank we get, or whatever our personal reasons might be. I feel the very least I can do is personally thank each one of them.
I try to give out thank-you presents during the convention (a small stuffed animal) but it's difficult to even track down half of the people who make everything happen. The thank-you mailing list, though, I can work with our Admin Div./Staff Services Dept. to make sure I have as complete a list as possible (all the way down to the fans who just volunteered to help out in Artists' Alley for an hour) and I can set my hand to going though all of them.
And I'm 80% finished. Hooray!
