House Tearmainn

I will forgo complaining about how miserable my work life has become over the past few days and just say that it is not unlikely that I will have a different employer soon. We’ll see.

In other news I had a boy over last night to discuss some household related things. It is always good to see him, and I hope that once I have a satisfactory household structure in place he will be able to join us in some capacity. He’s a good boy.

So… about that structure. I think it’s time to outline a set of membership levels, what they mean, and how to progress through them. I am not a dogmatic person, quite the opposite in fact, but I do believe that people can serve better when they’re not worried about these things and I’d like to keep all of the involved parties from making bad assumptions. Most especially me.

I think that I can make do with four levels of “membership”, for lack of a better term. For now let’s call them “free associate”, “associate”, “servant” and “slave”. Each level indicates a level of commitment, an amount expected effort, and the depth of submission. I think, also, that a certain minimum amount of time makes good sense.

I have now spent a fair amount of time trying to write up each level at a high level, but it’s become clear in doing so that my ideas are still a bit too rough for that. Fair enough, this day has been pretty frustrating all around and this is too important for me to rush through it. Anyways, it’s not like I don’t have a bucket of other things to post about while that percolates.