December 26, 2005

• Topic: Progress Report

  
  

  A few minor developments in a few minor areas:

  
  

  1) Howard, a friend I met at the NYC travler’s meet-up group, and myself, have been discussing growing the group a bit.  We’re trying to come up w/ a way to create more opportunities for people in NYC to, well….meet-up.  We’re considering organizing a pub-crawl, with a couple of different themes including a history NYC pub crawl or a cultural/ethnic pub crawl.  Another idea is to organize a meet-up about the concept of the meet-up and the idea of building community and bringing together a wide cross-section of people.

  
  

  2) Now that I’m approaching 6mos. with my job (a ridiclous achievement in itself, for me anyways), I decided to send out a “state of the union” type e-mail for a couple of people.  So far, the responses have been quite positive.  I had a list of criticisms and suggestions, and at the organizations last conference, apparently a lot of people agreed, and they’re moving it to their national conference which will be going on over New Year’s.  There’s need for changes all over the planet, so I’m content to hopefully be able to make some kind of a positive change where I am now, while at the same time knowing that nothing might happen beyond talk and that at the end of the day, I get paid to manage the office.

  
  

  3) Channukah was festive.  Ate well last night, bagels, tuna, lox, potato lattkes and apple sauce, baked ziti and lasagna.  My uncle had a chocolate fondu fountain for dipping fruit in for dessert.  Plus the exchanging of gifts, better known in my family as “trickle down economics,” my grandfather gives checks to his children, and the uncles/aunts give checks to the grandkids. 

  
  

  4) I love my job, and I’m not afraid to say it.  Some people love their jobs because they love what they’re doing.  Some people love their jobs because they feel they’re making a difference in the lives of others.  Some people love their jobs because they feel challenged, and some because they get paid a lot.  I might be unlike many people in that I love my job because I have little to do and little responsibility in doing it.  Although I learned last Fri. when I was out of the office that I’m the only person who knows how to ship things w/ DHL, or how to call Staples to order office supplies, by-and-large, I get away with having to do very little substantial work…and I’ve learned to embrace that.  It allows me to read online all day as I know many other people do, and it allows me to write which I love, and it allows me to think about what kind of work I’ll do next, what is it that I would trade this relatively stress job for?  The current picture looks like fall/winter ’06 -spring ’07 abroad, with the potential for fall ’07 to be a mentor (not a teacher) at a Big Picture Company school.  The school’s founder and the way it’s run is the closest thing to what I’ve dreamed a school should be like, and in the next couple of months I’m hoping to visit and write about how the practice meets the theory.

  
  

  3 days till Chicago for New Year’s……

  
  

  -can

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