and wow, it flew by in quite the flash! It was a very interesting and important month for the country and Simmons College and yeah, probably even myself somehow. So important I completely forgot to blog about it . . .it's the old trick in which one feels that nothing is infused with significance at the time only to look back in retrospect and be amazed.
I knew what January had in store for me, so I had a software program installed on my phone that allowed my organizer to sync with my work calendar. Which is a fancy way of saying, I knew where I was supposed to be most of the time. I spent a lot of January in meeting after meeting, talking about a flurry of really interesting topics--what leadership at Simmons means, what students are interested in for degree delivery options, marketing strategies for the College, ensuring staff representation and satisfaction, some intriguing candidates for Provost . . . and then we did the whole array of meeting topics over again! All weirdly engaging and exhausting. And every now and then, i even took a few minutes to answer some questions and process some records in the College Archives.
And, on top of that, I watched the Wrestler with Mickey Rourke and cried all afternoon like a little baby. And both Lost and Battlestar Galactica came back, feeding my inner geek. Meanwhile I'm reading (very slowly) Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen--a wonderful book set near the intersection of truth, myth, and memory in the swamps of Florida. A busy month. No wonder I forgot to blog.
So I start out February with a pile of proposal documents to read and evaluate as part of the Strategic Planning Process and a couple other big projects in the Archives that I'm continuing work on. In the upcoming months, I'll be working with my student worker and with the ever-wonderful Diane Hammer in the Institute for Leadership and Change to develop an online exhibit celebrating the Bringing Beijing Home conference held at Simmons in 1996. And Donna Webber, College Archivist and I are continuing a major project of arranging and describing the records of the President's Office from before there even was a Simmons College to 1995. Very interesting stuff buried in those records.
And I really have to finish Shadow Country, as i hate carrying around the same book (no matter how good or how long--and this is both) for over a month . . . I grow to feel somewhat remedial.
Meanwhile, I'm taking an MCM class this semester--Communications and Strategic Change or something like that . . . and counting the days until my honey and I disappear from cold, snowy Boston to Jamaica for a week . . .33 days, according to the white board in my office.
Be blogging back later.
I knew what January had in store for me, so I had a software program installed on my phone that allowed my organizer to sync with my work calendar. Which is a fancy way of saying, I knew where I was supposed to be most of the time. I spent a lot of January in meeting after meeting, talking about a flurry of really interesting topics--what leadership at Simmons means, what students are interested in for degree delivery options, marketing strategies for the College, ensuring staff representation and satisfaction, some intriguing candidates for Provost . . . and then we did the whole array of meeting topics over again! All weirdly engaging and exhausting. And every now and then, i even took a few minutes to answer some questions and process some records in the College Archives.
And, on top of that, I watched the Wrestler with Mickey Rourke and cried all afternoon like a little baby. And both Lost and Battlestar Galactica came back, feeding my inner geek. Meanwhile I'm reading (very slowly) Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen--a wonderful book set near the intersection of truth, myth, and memory in the swamps of Florida. A busy month. No wonder I forgot to blog.
So I start out February with a pile of proposal documents to read and evaluate as part of the Strategic Planning Process and a couple other big projects in the Archives that I'm continuing work on. In the upcoming months, I'll be working with my student worker and with the ever-wonderful Diane Hammer in the Institute for Leadership and Change to develop an online exhibit celebrating the Bringing Beijing Home conference held at Simmons in 1996. And Donna Webber, College Archivist and I are continuing a major project of arranging and describing the records of the President's Office from before there even was a Simmons College to 1995. Very interesting stuff buried in those records.
And I really have to finish Shadow Country, as i hate carrying around the same book (no matter how good or how long--and this is both) for over a month . . . I grow to feel somewhat remedial.
Meanwhile, I'm taking an MCM class this semester--Communications and Strategic Change or something like that . . . and counting the days until my honey and I disappear from cold, snowy Boston to Jamaica for a week . . .33 days, according to the white board in my office.
Be blogging back later.
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