When on Earth . . .

. . . did I become a joiner and a potential leader?

First there was the Society for Conservation Biology. Joining seemed innocuous enough -- $5 membership, $10 shirt, meetings once a month, give an opinion here and there. Next thing I know, I'm chair of a committee.

Then there was the Graduate Student Association. Grad students are entitled to have a liaison at faculty meetings, but no one's done it for over a year. The faculty are doing new faculty interviews at the end of the semester, so it'll be important to be in on the faculty meetings, to represent the grad students' opinions of potential faculty and report all happenings to the rest of the grad students. Hey Dawn, Chad thought you'd be interested in doing it. OK, no biggie. Now a handful of grad students want to formalize the GSA and register with the university and the SGA in order to get financial assistance to get big name seminar speakers. In order to do that, we need to elect officers and write a charter, and that handful of grad students is already nominating me for president.

What the hell???