“Give me an N!”

Tomorrow is the 2nd game of the season for the netball team here. Myself and Curly have discovered that it actually does take up quite a lot of your time captaining and managing a netball team, especially one that seems to have grown to 24 players. We have some keen people in the office this year and it seems everyone wants in on the action.

Normally I wouldn’t mind all the distraction, something to do, something to get my teeth into but I’m so busy with the day to day stuff it’s starting to get in the way of everything else. What’s that all about?! I mean yes it keeps me occupied and the day whizzes by and I’m at least using some of my brain cells again but then it’s also interfering with other activities such as my personal emails, checking of the book of face (I haven’t even been on the site today yet!), the all important writing of the blog, organising my social life and now the netball team to boot. This just won’t do, I’m going to have to start prioritising my workload as follows:

1) Emails to friends/family/non work-related matters
2) Blog writing
3) Planning my weekend
4) Checking Face Book at hourly intervals
5) Drinking tea
6) Netball
7) Actual work

At the moment 7 seems to have bumped itself up to 1 and 6 to 2. How many emails do you need to send about a netball game?! Many apparently. Curly also got quite excited about the new team t-shirts which we ended up designing a logo for and have arrived today; in fact she is really getting into it whereas I am starting to wish I had just agreed to play. See this is why I wouldn’t ever go for management, I seem to naturally shy away from responsibility and positions of power. I don’t think it’s genetic so maybe I am just lazy or too laid back for my own good? Probably. I’ll be the first to admit it. Curly’s all up for organising Monday night training now and that means staying late after work and putting together training sessions. Neither of us has put together or taken a training session in our lives! We reckon we can find most of it on the interweb anyway and I said to her I only foresee a handful of people rocking up to training anyway. Although one guy on the team has bought his own netball net! They’ll be expecting us to win games next!

It’s all very worrying, before you know it I’ll be up for employee of the month or something equally shocking.

Any hints or tips on running a netball team would be very welcome. Any hints and tips on how to get our of running a netball team even more so.