Do you belong to any clubs or do your enjoy your non-work activities solo? Are your clubs voluntary or involuntary? (I went to a union meeting tonight.)
What membership cards do you carry in your wallet?
Is a church a club?
Or, like Groucho Marx, do you simply not want to belong to any club that will have you as a member.
Is hubski a clubski?
I am an American Express member. I also belong to the Hilton Honors program and the Marriott Honors program... oh, and Delta Sky Miles. Yay, I feel so connected to those communities. Literally, Hubski is the only community or group of people that I belong to outside of my IRL friends and family.
from eightbitsamurai This is what happened at the union meeting: My union voted 78% NOT to go on strike. One speaker at the meeting interpreted that vote this way, saying, "78% not to strike is not a good message to send to management. It would have been much better if the vote was maybe 52% not to strike. Then the management would have known that we were restless and unhappy and they would be more responsive for our next contract talks." On the other hand, I looked at the 78% vote to accept the contract as evidence that the workers (sessional professors) thought the contract was good and were basically happy with their jobs and wanted to work together with their departments for a better work environment for everyone, including students who are negatively affected by a strike. Currently all the teaching assistants at two Toronto universities are on strike. 8bit's comments reminded me that if you are going to voluntarily join a club, you should have more in common than skin colour or a specific employer -- like perhaps a shared ideology, goals, perception of the universe, favourite beer - whatever. I don't belong to any clubs. I checked my wallet and like thenewgreen, I have points cards (one is actually called Club Sobeys), a credit card, coffee cards (buy 7, get one free), library cards (3), refillable inter-city bus pass, and my intoxicating passport (Candian Club). I confess, I also belong to the ACBL, but it was a family membership.lil's Clubski post reminded me how I had been interested in going to a "Black Club" at school, and I did, but eventually left after a couple of sessions. It's hard to explain, but it felt weird going to a club where the one thing we had in common was our skin-color. Also going to a club that was created to put all the people of my race in one place felt just a tiny bit...I dunno, like a cop-out? Maybe a better word is limiting. IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN, ALRIGHT.
Thanks, 8bit, for that shoutout in another thread. Part of my interest in #clubski was cause it sounded funny, but I think, also, the fact that I went to a union meeting and they wanted us to fill out a membership card, and then I'd be a card-carrying member gave me some pause. I figure that since I had to be a member of this club, I'd better find out more about it.
I serve on my city's bicycle advisory committee--a kind of active-transportation, citizen-expert advisory group to the mayor and council. We don't do all that much because the city is not developing very much currently. I'm hoping that will change with the economic upturn and we'll have a positive impact on the new infrastructure. Still, we host local family bike rides and other, smaller-scale stuff. It's good, but I would like to be doing more.
Well that's weird. I thought I just saved this as a draft. I didn't want to actually post it until I added something meatier. And it was kind of a joke along the lines of grubski and pubski. I guess "draft" means the same as "post." Ha ha. Thanks for answering.