The Week that Was - 1/19 to 1/23
For the last several years, when we get to January the Symposium begins to dominate my life. This year is no different, and things are beginning to ramp up. In my last post, I mentioned the "reimagine" campaign that is being put together. We are full throttle into this as the final editing of Chris Brady's video is being done and scheduling of two videos with Stuart Selber and Elinore Madigan and their respective students is happening now. At the same time, I am working with Jeff Swain and Dave Stong on creating a poster campaign tied to the videos that is looking really good. Dave has done his usual phenomenal job on these posters. His level of craftmanship and design sense are always at an incredibly high level.
Speaking of Dave, this leads me to something that I didn't expect to happen when I started doing these weekly reflections. I subscribe to many of my co-workers' blogs, and I read many of their posts, but I have hardly ever commented. However, now that most of the staff are writing weekly reflections, I find myself not only commenting on those posts, but on many of their other posts as well. Dave is one person whose blog I have commented on frequently in the last week. I didn't expect that to happen because I have a hard enough time writing posts to my own blog. Not because I don't want to, but because I don't find it easy. I started this particular post on Friday, 1/23, but it won't get posted until Monday, 1/26 because I keep going back and rewriting it. I can't help it. I know people have told me to treat writing a blog as a stream of consciousness type of thing, but I just can't do it. At least not yet. So it takes me forever to write a post.
So I say to myself that I should just write one post a week for now, and that it'll be no big deal. Heck, I really should be able to get 4 or 5 written. Yet here I am with just the one post. But something is happening. Even though I have only written one post a week on my own blog, I am doing more writing in general because I am really getting into reading and commenting on my co-workers' spaces. Oh, I'll spend more time than I should writing and rewriting my comments, but I'm writing. And it is inspiring me to write more and share my ideas. I am still daunted by the fact that I can't just write what I am thinking at the moment and let it go; that I have to go back and analyze it and go over it again and again. However, I really find it gratifying to comment to my co-workers, and my hope is to have them comment to me. I just hope they find what I have to say as interesting as I find their stuff.
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On Monday, I'm starting a one post a day challenge for the month of February. Brad, Erin, Chris, and Robin S. are all planning to do it as well. You should give it a shot. The posts don't need to be long -- just a paragraph or two about what's on your mind. I did it in August and found that it made it easier to write. It broke me of the write-rewrite paralysis.
I'll do my best. It's hard for me to write short bursts sometimes. Maybe it'll do the trick.