If you chase dreams, make sure you know what to do when you catch them.
First, some tidbits: I heard this on the radio this morning and it was corroborated by a coworker of mine: Apparently Cam'ron wants beef with Jay-Z now. PLEASE! don't you know that President Carter will kill you both on wax and with power?
YUP! In my pink tee...
I'd like to go to ODK's national convention this year. I won't, but I'd like to. But for what? I'd be interested to see what would actually apply to me directly; most conventionites will be students or advisors of Circles around. While I'm affiliated with two different circles, I'm currently at a Circle-less school.
That being said, there's going to be a new Asst. Director in the Office of Leadership and Service Learning, AD for Leadership, I believe. It could be conceivable that ODK will be in that person's plans and we'll have a Circle here by next biennial conference.
I didn't go hear Angela Davis speak as our MLK speaker on campus here Tuesday night. I wanted to, but after having been working all weekend with the ATL trip and working last night with the event we had, I figured it'd be best if I actually take my ass home for the night. So I missed it. Lucky for me, I feel like I got my fill as Georgia Me, probably best known from HBO's Def Poetry Slam, was here. She had a regrettably small audience (like a dozen of us, and that included those of us who were working) but that was cool because she was able to just kick it with us. We (her and the whole audience) honestly shot the shit for another 2 hours after she was allegedly done. It was great times.
That being said, I'm mad at the fact that attendance was so poor. I feel like lecture/speaker programming is just really hard to get people excited about, unless you get someone wicked expensive (like Chuck D will be) or sell out to the lowest common denominator (some reality TV star who's really not qualified to speak on anything [or Belding, the dirty old man of NACA]). When you're a college student, lecture is a dirty word, and I hope changing the nomenclature to "Speaker" or something of the sort helps.
Because I was here for last night's event, I never closed out of my office cuz I had to take her back to the hotel. There's something to be said for starting out a day and turning on your computer and starting fresh--this morning felt like it was still just yesterday.
So now for the cover story: Don't know how many of you followed the link last week to my band dork dreams. Here's the reader's digest: Greensboro is getting a professional (indoor, in the Nat'l Indoor Football league) football team. As you're probably aware, I intend add/increase the use of marching bands in the professional football landscape. So I was quite pleased with the news because it means that I don't have to wait until I move near somewhere with a franchise. Ideally, I'd be able to put together a proposal and bring it up to the folks before the season gets underway in March, as it would be a great way to hit the ground running in a new market. But do I have the conviction to really follow this dream, at least immediately? Consider this: Let's say I put something together, come with a trump-tight proposal, go in, present it, and homeboy is like, "That great. Let's go with it. You start Monday." I'm not prepared to quit my job and leave my kids (Students) and all that which said outcome would entail. Can I really be that much about my dream if I can't attempt to follow it full throttle? On the other hand, I know where I am and what I'm doing now, and as such I've developed goals and it's a goal, if not a dream of mine to accomplish some things before I leave up out this piece. So at this point I will be attempting to chase both while putting more energy into the one that pays me I guess... such is life.
In other news, I went to a lunch thing today that was intended to raise awareness for hunger. It worked--I'm still hungry.
YUP! In my pink tee...
I'd like to go to ODK's national convention this year. I won't, but I'd like to. But for what? I'd be interested to see what would actually apply to me directly; most conventionites will be students or advisors of Circles around. While I'm affiliated with two different circles, I'm currently at a Circle-less school.
That being said, there's going to be a new Asst. Director in the Office of Leadership and Service Learning, AD for Leadership, I believe. It could be conceivable that ODK will be in that person's plans and we'll have a Circle here by next biennial conference.
I didn't go hear Angela Davis speak as our MLK speaker on campus here Tuesday night. I wanted to, but after having been working all weekend with the ATL trip and working last night with the event we had, I figured it'd be best if I actually take my ass home for the night. So I missed it. Lucky for me, I feel like I got my fill as Georgia Me, probably best known from HBO's Def Poetry Slam, was here. She had a regrettably small audience (like a dozen of us, and that included those of us who were working) but that was cool because she was able to just kick it with us. We (her and the whole audience) honestly shot the shit for another 2 hours after she was allegedly done. It was great times.
That being said, I'm mad at the fact that attendance was so poor. I feel like lecture/speaker programming is just really hard to get people excited about, unless you get someone wicked expensive (like Chuck D will be) or sell out to the lowest common denominator (some reality TV star who's really not qualified to speak on anything [or Belding, the dirty old man of NACA]). When you're a college student, lecture is a dirty word, and I hope changing the nomenclature to "Speaker" or something of the sort helps.
Because I was here for last night's event, I never closed out of my office cuz I had to take her back to the hotel. There's something to be said for starting out a day and turning on your computer and starting fresh--this morning felt like it was still just yesterday.
So now for the cover story: Don't know how many of you followed the link last week to my band dork dreams. Here's the reader's digest: Greensboro is getting a professional (indoor, in the Nat'l Indoor Football league) football team. As you're probably aware, I intend add/increase the use of marching bands in the professional football landscape. So I was quite pleased with the news because it means that I don't have to wait until I move near somewhere with a franchise. Ideally, I'd be able to put together a proposal and bring it up to the folks before the season gets underway in March, as it would be a great way to hit the ground running in a new market. But do I have the conviction to really follow this dream, at least immediately? Consider this: Let's say I put something together, come with a trump-tight proposal, go in, present it, and homeboy is like, "That great. Let's go with it. You start Monday." I'm not prepared to quit my job and leave my kids (Students) and all that which said outcome would entail. Can I really be that much about my dream if I can't attempt to follow it full throttle? On the other hand, I know where I am and what I'm doing now, and as such I've developed goals and it's a goal, if not a dream of mine to accomplish some things before I leave up out this piece. So at this point I will be attempting to chase both while putting more energy into the one that pays me I guess... such is life.
In other news, I went to a lunch thing today that was intended to raise awareness for hunger. It worked--I'm still hungry.