Recommendation

Okay I have a serious question here. I'm in graduate school and I'm still in my first semester.

I've been getting involved slowly and so far I'm the only student in a LONG time to get involved with the university. So I got my advisor to okay. He said it would be a great thing for me to do and stuff.

Anyway now I want to take it further. I'm a memeber of the organz. that my field trives on. Well I wasn to get involved with it in MY region. Problem is I need a recommendation from him to do it.

I know graduate profressors are more tough when it comes to even considering them. I want to ask him but he's soooooooo intimating and I don't know if he'll write one for me. He's leaving in a couple of months to go elsewhere so he's extremely busy.

Now the pickle I'm in IS if I don't get one from him I have to wait until next year when I get to know some other professors.

So I guess my question is would it be inappropriate to ask because I don't know if this is considered an extracr. or not because it deals HEAVY with what I'm doing. I mean it's the main organization and I want to be a part of it IF possible.

Any ideas/suggestions would be helpful.