The filing process at Dress for Success went
swimmingly today. After many days of volunteering, Nikki, Jordan, and myself
are now pros at Analisa’s nonsensical filing process that I have a terrible
suspicion she came up with about ten minutes ago. With Analisa’s help I have
begun to recognize the true importance of organization- she lacks it something
awful and I can now see the dire need for it. If one accepts the help of a
group of young volunteers, one should have actual things for those volunteers
to do other than busy work. I mean honestly, all day all I do is busy work, and
the last thing that I want to do is continue the vicious cycle of busy work at
my volunteer organization of choice. At this point in our volunteering process
I’m getting bored with the surprised look on her face whenever we show up at
the front door. At first her absentmindedness was kind of fun and not a
problem, now it’s annoying and getting in the way of my whole-hearted volunteering.
Basically so far we have nothing to show for our weeks of volunteering; we’ve
met no clients and done nothing outside of filing and sorting clothes. Don’t
get me wrong, I realize that us sorting clothes is probably a big help, but
it’s still really annoying that this is all we’re doing every single time we
come in. I mean, as much as I love sitting amongst piles of donated shoes and
tattered dress pants, I would’ve loved to work with actual humans much more.
High class goodwill is fun but human interaction is probably more fun.
