I really don't see the desperate problem - things like geek pizza are profoundly optional, and unless you're one of those people who doesn't feel included in a group unless they're there every minute of every meeting then missing a Calling, the Thursday pub or a juggling session now and then is hardly going to kill you. You're the one with the generosity to organise the B5 viewings (which incidentally I'd like to know why I wasn't aware of :-P ), so it's your call as to how often they happen; Who is also not compulsry, unless Gareth is now making all attendees sign something..?
Yes, most of those things are optional, and missing one instalment of them for a one-off something else is perfectly reasonable. This is not what worries me. What worries me is what will happen the next time I have a regular commitment to try to squeeze into my schedule; while I'm perfectly willing to miss individual instances of all my current stuff, I wouldn't want to ditch any one of them completely.
As for why you weren't aware of the B5 viewings: I mentioned them in a previous LJ entry, and LNR spotted that and asked to be included, so why you didn't do the same is a question only you can answer :-P
(I admit I didn't send out a mass mail calling for interested parties. If I had done, I imagine I would have got more responses than I can sensibly fit in my living room. As it is we have seven people on the list, which will already require two people to sit on the floor if everyone ever manages to be free at the same time. This hasn't happened yet, but it might at some point...)
more responses than I can sensibly fit in my living room
Wow. Given the size of modern hard disks that's a _lot_ of email :)
And the reason I didn't reply to you mentioning the B5 thing in your lj was I knew you'd already mentioned it to me in person and was assuming that you'd be emailing people to actually organise it.. YA Becky AICMUKP5 :)
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Yes, most of those things are optional, and missing one instalment of them for a one-off something else is perfectly reasonable. This is not what worries me. What worries me is what will happen the next time I have a regular commitment to try to squeeze into my schedule; while I'm perfectly willing to miss individual instances of all my current stuff, I wouldn't want to ditch any one of them completely.
As for why you weren't aware of the B5 viewings: I mentioned them in a previous LJ entry, and LNR spotted that and asked to be included, so why you didn't do the same is a question only you can answer :-P
(I admit I didn't send out a mass mail calling for interested parties. If I had done, I imagine I would have got more responses than I can sensibly fit in my living room. As it is we have seven people on the list, which will already require two people to sit on the floor if everyone ever manages to be free at the same time. This hasn't happened yet, but it might at some point...)
Wow. Given the size of modern hard disks that's a _lot_ of email :)
And the reason I didn't reply to you mentioning the B5 thing in your lj was I knew you'd already mentioned it to me in person and was assuming that you'd be emailing people to actually organise it.. YA Becky AICMUKP5 :)