Here we go, folx

Last week I agreed to take over the position of admissions testing coordinator for Lonestar Mensa.  While I’ve been a proctor, qualified to administer the test, for several years, I haven’t actually given one in a good while because I strongly disliked the previous testing coordinator, and eventually she got the message and quit calling me.  However, she’s dead now, and the chapter needed a coordinator, and I’d had in mind for some time that I’d like to have the job.  (I have some ideas about testing I’d like to try out, to see if we can bring up membership in some of our outlying areas.)

So when the LocSec (Mensa jargon for “chapter president”) emailed me last Friday in just short of a panic, asking if I could proctor the test locally in conjunction with National Testing Day, I took the opportunity to put my name into the hat—a hat which is usually distinguished by being empty of names of people willing to volunteer to do something—for testing coordinator.  He readily agreed, so now I have a test to give next month (which isn’t that hard to do, but you absolutely must follow the rules exactly, or the national group can end up losing its licenses to use the tests they do), as well as a local testing program to re-organize.

I’m also trying to work out who we’ve got that are still qualified as proctors; the executive director at the National office told me that all she had on the Official List for our chapter were me and two others, one of whom has been a proctor since before the woods burned down, and the other someone I don’t even know.  I gave her the name of another member whom I know used to be a proctor and could easily re-qualify if she needed or wanted to, and later sent an email to the LocSec asking him who he knows about that wants to qualify for proctor, so I can get them started on their way.