Goals

To be accomplished by first day of school, Tuesday Jan. 20:

- ensure house is clean
- make a copy of room B key
- collect lockout keys and redistribute
- buy office supplies for house
- have a successful first house council
- move people in
- print out an orientation packet and make copies for new members
- print out bylaws and make copies for new members

Activities

Yesterday:
- attended training session from 2-6 pm. Put out a fire!
- made sure rooms were ready for move-in. Noted that room A needs a sweep.
- emailed with one woman transferring to Hoyt (and needing to move stuff out)
- emailed with one woman who was moving in today

Today:
- moved in one woman
- will attend managers' meeting
- will sweep room A and clean 2nd floor handicapped bathroom

MANAGER'S MEETING TONIGHT!

ALL managers: Please meet in the house foyer at 7:30 pm. We will go have dinner and plan the semester!

Please be prepared to think about goals for the semester, the first house council and remember to bring some writing material.

Thanks!

Nat

House President Activities 1/12- 1/14

1/12- 1/14

• Attended New Manager Training hosted by Central Office- Topics: Email/General BSC Info/Sexual Harassment/Alcohol and Substance Abuse
• Vacuumed first floor foyer (although the thing went kaputz after 30 minutes), helped clean living room, kitchen cabinets, removed Xmas decorations, took pictures, cleaned tables and dusted
• Updated the Health Worker Board
• Updated email lists
• Looked into KOA campgrounds for manager's retreat
• Preparation for first manager's meeting
• Cleaned third floor bathrooms: floors, toilets, counters, showers
• Will attend President's Training from 2pm-6pm today, Prep for managers meeting and hold managers meeting
  

Activities

Yesterday's accomplishments:
- came back to the house
- paid Comcast (cable, 13.78)
- paid Megapath (internet, 119.85)
- cleaned 1st floor bathroom
- cleaned dining room counter space
- helped remove Xmas decorations
- organized impromptu work party
--> cost: 1 bottle of social wine, $34 for pizza
- went to training, 3 hrs
- invited Johanna and Vanesa to the blog
- bugged Natalie about setting a time/date for managers' meeting

Pictures

(Potential) Activities

Here's what Maggie and I will need to do or should get done between now and the 18th. You all are free to add to this if I forgot things or you have better suggestions; Kimber and I went through this fast and with lots of help back in Aug so I may have forgot some steps. These are not in any particular order:

*clean under the veggie sink
*mop floors - I already did some sweeping last night (along with dishes
that folks have been leaving), but there's more to be done
*get rid of ants! - Yes we have some. It's winter, it's a given they will come in.
They're near the dining room compost and the metal/plastic recycling bin,
not in kitchen as far as I've found. They're nowhere near as bad as last year's ants.
Last year, they were in or near our tea, coffee, microwave, milk machine,
and some were found near the spices.
But we need more Raid or other bug spray.
*buy new plates, bowls, cups, and mugs - We should do an Ikea run
(or Costco, my aunt found cheap plates there, but not too microwave friendly)
*inventory (esp. staple foods like flour and sugar) MUST DO BY THE 11TH!!!
since orders are due 8am-ish on the 12th
*clean all the shelves that hold the big containers
*clean the fruit baskets
*clean the cereal holders - the 2 empty ones were already done
*throw away old food from fridges, freezers (those bags of meat!), and
dry goods' cabinets -There's not as much as you'd think.
Kimber was pretty good about ordering few veggies near the end there.
Yes, many people suffered during finals but it made the clean-up easy :)
*clean/sanitize fridges and freezers (including racks)
*clean the oven racks, stove tops, and griddle;
changing the foil under the stove
*come up with menus for about 2 weeks worth by the 11th
*organize container rack
*put in new milk machine before the 13th - or before milk gets delivered,
whatever comes sooner

At council we'll need to vote on:
*dinner time
*brunch (yes or no, then time if "yes" wins)
*milk.
Our standing milk order will take awhile to change if there is a change.

Anything else to add? Sorry that it's super long.

Activities

Somewhat lighter day, not too crazy. More emails.
- Got Esme's email about Google Docs problem, tried to resend the orientation packet invite to her (dunno if it worked)
- Confirmed move-in date of a new Shermanite
- Responded to Keighley's email re: social calendar and how to post it to this blog

As soon as I finish this, I'm sending out an email to the managers about what I want to do with this blog.

Activities

Got two responses so far to my move-in email. I added the women's names to my Google Calendar. Responded to one's queries about parking and directed her to Davis or Castro.

Responded to the woman moving in early about possibly squeezing her in between my return to Berkeley and my afternoon training session.

Responded to a Clone who is transferring from Sherman to Hoyt.

Activities

Yesterday I emailed CO to get the new email list for Sherman.

Today I sent out a pantload of emails.
1. To all house members re: move-ins
2. To managers re: orientation packet
- also started a Google Doc for the orientation packet
3. To Shivani re: workshift packet
4. Replied to an international student re: early move-in
5. To Keighley re: cultural social event
5. A chat with Natalie re: bylaws and acceptable excuses for missing house council

Now I will wait for the newbies to respond to me and set up move-in times.