I haven't been very club active so far at UGA. Not that I was much in High School either. I think I did Interact for a couple years, I was drama club senior year, I may have even been in Beta Club freshman year, I honestly don't remember. Up here, though, I do almost less organized activity. Last year I started up with the newly formed Disciples on Campus. This year, along with continuing with DOC, I've also gotten heavily into Watchdawgs.

Watchdawgs began Spring 2001 as a community service group with one goal: Giving free, safe rides home on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. I had a couple of friends who helped out it's first semester, so at the beginning of this year, I jumped on as well. My goal was simply to help people. I hadn't been doing much philenthropic work since I left the Youth Group at Peachtree, and I missed it. What I found though, was that I really enjoyed Watchdawgs itself. So now I've been doing this all year; once a weekend, sometimes twice. The great part about it is that I do it enough so that everybody knows me, but I've avoided getting into the executive / political end of it.

I didn't work last night, I went downtown and got drunk instead. I wasn't going to take Watchdawgs, I had a ride, but I went down to where they run downtown opperations from just to say Hi. I didn't know the two guys who were running the show, but both of them knew me. This was one of the greatest validations for me. But even with this compliment, I still have the ability to step back and remove myself from Watchdawgs when I need to. Most of the people I'm friends with in the organization are the captains. The people who are on the inside. And as much as they love working with Watchdawgs, there are always times when they get so sick of it that they're ready to quit. I've been in a couple of groups where I felt that way and I never want to do it again. With power comes responsibility and with that comes the inability to step back and retain yourself.

I enjoy Watchdawgs too much to get deeply involved.