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Haven't written in a long time...so very busy! And so, I update.
1. Legislative session has been going fantastically. It seems that most of the legislators are on our page...however, it's looking more and more like that so-called "surplus" isn't going to come to fruition. We shall see when the next forecast comes out.
2. Rally day was a good time, but a cold time! 700 odd students (including some high school students that came), huge media response (we were on every news channel that night!), and a surprise meeting with house speaker Keliher...one of our students set up this meeting and forgot to cancel it. Up to that point, we hadn't been able to meet with this woman AT ALL!!! (speaker has a busy schedule!) So our student tells us ten minutes before the meeting is supposed to begin, oh yeah, I forgot. I have this meeting I forgot to cancel...it was like Christmas! Fantastic.
3. The Cultural Diversity Conference was a SMASHING success! I am so proud of how it went. The students participated actively, the speakers all showed up, the rooms were all arranged...I am ridiculously pleased. Got a touch too drunk that Saturday night...(A pitcher of margarita on an empty stomach will do that to you!) but otherwise great.
4. I'm going to DC in March for a conference and lobby trip with the students. I found out I get to co-teach a session on organizing students at the conference. That should be fun. Then I'm going to stay through Saturday and see the sights of DC. It'll be good for me to have a bit of a break.
Unfortunately, other than work there isn't too much going on right now. Well, not truly exciting stuff anyways. Mostly I'm just exhausted from work most days, so I run to the gym, work out, and collapse into bed. But such is life. I love my job, I love my coworkers, I love my apartment...I just sort of wish I had some more time just for me. I'm stressed a good majority of the time, but that's nobody's fault but my own. Someday I'll learn balance, I swear.
1. Legislative session has been going fantastically. It seems that most of the legislators are on our page...however, it's looking more and more like that so-called "surplus" isn't going to come to fruition. We shall see when the next forecast comes out.
2. Rally day was a good time, but a cold time! 700 odd students (including some high school students that came), huge media response (we were on every news channel that night!), and a surprise meeting with house speaker Keliher...one of our students set up this meeting and forgot to cancel it. Up to that point, we hadn't been able to meet with this woman AT ALL!!! (speaker has a busy schedule!) So our student tells us ten minutes before the meeting is supposed to begin, oh yeah, I forgot. I have this meeting I forgot to cancel...it was like Christmas! Fantastic.
3. The Cultural Diversity Conference was a SMASHING success! I am so proud of how it went. The students participated actively, the speakers all showed up, the rooms were all arranged...I am ridiculously pleased. Got a touch too drunk that Saturday night...(A pitcher of margarita on an empty stomach will do that to you!) but otherwise great.
4. I'm going to DC in March for a conference and lobby trip with the students. I found out I get to co-teach a session on organizing students at the conference. That should be fun. Then I'm going to stay through Saturday and see the sights of DC. It'll be good for me to have a bit of a break.
Unfortunately, other than work there isn't too much going on right now. Well, not truly exciting stuff anyways. Mostly I'm just exhausted from work most days, so I run to the gym, work out, and collapse into bed. But such is life. I love my job, I love my coworkers, I love my apartment...I just sort of wish I had some more time just for me. I'm stressed a good majority of the time, but that's nobody's fault but my own. Someday I'll learn balance, I swear.