In a message dated 21/03/2005 14:18:17 GMT Standard Time, Devon writes: > So I thought I would say I do volunteer work in the lace collection > of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The first person I tried this on said > "what collection?". I had to repeat the word "lace" for him several times > as he > failed to grasp what I was speaking of. Finally, I said, "the white stuff" > thus confirming that he was not going deaf or failing to recognize an > exotic > word.
I've been inmy new job for just under a year now and made a point of not mentioning any main hobbies outside of my initial interview - I work with people in their 20s and my clients are all 16 - 25 yr olds too so their idea of a fab night is clubbing and drinking and having babies - boy do I feel old and I'm still their side of 40! Anyway, it came up that I needed to book leave as I need to attend a lace event that will require me being at a venue for a long weekend, having just joined the committee and promised that I would be present. As we have to travel some distance the Aussie suggested that we make a week of it and travel around (although I'm having to explain to So of I trog to work and check that no one else is off that week, which was fine however, we work a policy that if you desperately need leave then you can negotiate with whoever is booked off unless they can't change their dates - it's a nice polite way of doing things so I had to explain to our admin that these dates were not movable. One of the administrators asked the simple question 'Oh, why? What are you doing?' ... which put me, a person used to standing up and teaching any subject off the cuff on the back foot - I had to explain that I was on the committee for a major international lace group and this was their convention weekend erm and erm. What I didn't expect was the fact that they were so interested and I ended up talking through the different types of lace that I make or could make. This has left me with a positive feeling about what I can tell people - ok they aren't going to ask to be taught to make it - they are still too focused on clubbing and drinking but then that's fine, I respect that but they also respect the fact that I make lace! BTW - I'm not sure if this thread should be moved to chat now or are we still within the lace remit? Regards Liz in London I'm back blogging my latest lace piece - have a look by clicking on the link or going to http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
