Friday, May 04, 2007
(7:41 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: The Committee on Committees
I confess that I ate Subway the other night, and I hate myself for it. I confess that I enjoy watching TV and laughing out loud like a freak. I confess that I can't really get into Scrubs. I confess that House has overtaken 24 in my esteem, but only by virtue of not declining as rapidly.I confess that someone needs to respond to Brad's solicitation.
I confess that the other night I reconfirmed my dislike of riding the Garfield bus over to the Red Line very late at night.
I confess that I've enjoyed my tenure as the student representative to the board of trustees at CTS. The Academic and Student Affairs Committee is truly a great committee. I confess, though, that if I had my "druthers," my natural love of meta makes me long to serve on the Board Affairs Committee -- the committee of the board in charge of the board as such.
I confess that in the past two years I have become an experienced, indeed hardened, vetran of committee work. My "service" section is now as long as most people's entire CVs. If you want me to sit at a table and doodle on the agenda, I'm there. (Still, there's one glaring omission: no task forces.)
I confess that this all stems from my family life. My grandfather, a lifelong union man, had a t-shirt that said, "Don't ask me, I'm not on a committee." Two enigmatic paw-prints accompanied this sardonic motto. From a very early age, I told myself: I'm not going to make the same mistake.
