Working Away
Yesterday was fun!
Spent all day at a Classified Personnel conference that my District holds every year. There were a *lot* of folks that I had never met there - some that I knew from phone and e-mail contact but many that I had never interacted with. Not a big shock, I have only been with the District for three months. It was really nice to run into an old college mate who is working in DSP&S (disables student services) as their head ASL coordinator and interpreter. I am used to people walking up and saying, "Don't I know you?" and 90% of the time they don't - I just have 'that kind of face' that seems to be like someone they've met before. So it was nice for a change to realize that I *did* know the person passing me a note in the middle of a conference course. Christina was studying sign language when I met her in college about 10 years ago so it is nice to see her working in that field. I remember her as being very nice and very animated - and she still is. *chuckle*
After the conference closed at 4:00 PM I went to Meg's shop and started working on getting my 'hand in' on lucet cording. I will be going back for at least the next few Thursdays. Meg keeps the store open until 8:00 PM on those nights and hosts anyone who wants to sit in for assistance on their project. She had a sock class going last night, but regularly walked around the grouped tables in the middle of the store to 'check in' on what people were working on and answer questions. It was nice to just sit and chat, even with folks I don't know at all! I I have updated my Making a wHole entry with the results of last nights work and will continue to add to it as the project progresses. I am trying to keep all the information grouped for future reference.
The events of yesterday have pointed out something that I have been noticing for awhile. I am not really good at walking into a group of folks I don't know anymore. I used to be fearless - or at least clueless - and run head long into new associations no matter what the situation was. Seriously, no crowd of strangers could slow me down! Now I don't seek interaction with people I don't know as readily and tend to end up feeling awkward more easily. I don't know if my perception of other people has changed or my perception of myself. *shrug* Or maybe I just don't seek other folks for company as much as I used to. I don't know if I like the new situation or not. Weird.
Spent all day at a Classified Personnel conference that my District holds every year. There were a *lot* of folks that I had never met there - some that I knew from phone and e-mail contact but many that I had never interacted with. Not a big shock, I have only been with the District for three months. It was really nice to run into an old college mate who is working in DSP&S (disables student services) as their head ASL coordinator and interpreter. I am used to people walking up and saying, "Don't I know you?" and 90% of the time they don't - I just have 'that kind of face' that seems to be like someone they've met before. So it was nice for a change to realize that I *did* know the person passing me a note in the middle of a conference course. Christina was studying sign language when I met her in college about 10 years ago so it is nice to see her working in that field. I remember her as being very nice and very animated - and she still is. *chuckle*
After the conference closed at 4:00 PM I went to Meg's shop and started working on getting my 'hand in' on lucet cording. I will be going back for at least the next few Thursdays. Meg keeps the store open until 8:00 PM on those nights and hosts anyone who wants to sit in for assistance on their project. She had a sock class going last night, but regularly walked around the grouped tables in the middle of the store to 'check in' on what people were working on and answer questions. It was nice to just sit and chat, even with folks I don't know at all! I I have updated my Making a wHole entry with the results of last nights work and will continue to add to it as the project progresses. I am trying to keep all the information grouped for future reference.
The events of yesterday have pointed out something that I have been noticing for awhile. I am not really good at walking into a group of folks I don't know anymore. I used to be fearless - or at least clueless - and run head long into new associations no matter what the situation was. Seriously, no crowd of strangers could slow me down! Now I don't seek interaction with people I don't know as readily and tend to end up feeling awkward more easily. I don't know if my perception of other people has changed or my perception of myself. *shrug* Or maybe I just don't seek other folks for company as much as I used to. I don't know if I like the new situation or not. Weird.