So we have a bank account and a little money now.
Happy Saturday everyone, it’s been a little while since we last spoke. Part of that is because I didn’t really have any updates for you, and another part is that I felt we needed a little space, but then again there are competing idioms on that second part. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight out of mind. I suspect it all depends on whether you like something versus genuinely love it, but I also probably think you shouldn’t take advice on love from your neighborhood block association. Not unless an idiom will solve your romantic problems, anyway.
Anyway, the update for you this week is that I just opened a bank account for the block association because, in a sequence of events that I did not foresee when setting sail here, we’ve fallen into a little bit of money. Not enough to quit your job over, but enough to go on a nice vacation and fantasize about it. I’ve written before about how it is customary for the film shoots on our block to contribute a bit of money to our block association and/or the Council of Chelsea Block Associations, which is an organization of the various block associations in Chelsea. The President of the Council, Bill Borock, and the Treasurer, Karen Jacob, have faithfully put film shoot money aside for us until we set up a bank account, and I want to thank them publicly for doing so. Both are first-rate people and we are fortunate to have them in Chelsea.
So the next question is what to do with the money now or in the future, and that leads me to the point I really want to make here: I’d like to establish some formal structure around this block association. It’s all been very informal so far, which is definitely my style, but it would be nice to have some other decisionmakers on board who have a vested interest in the block. By “vested interest,” I do not mean people with a pet issue, which is an important distinction for me that will ensure that this enterprise remains a unpretentious social organization that distracts everybody from work rather than work itself. If you think you fit this description, you should respond to this email and we’ll talk. I live right next door.
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