It has been nearly two months since my
last blog post...
For the last two months, all those
working to organize the festival and conference have been kicking up silt and
dirt, trying to get things done, and in the rush a fog of war had risen. But as
the end of the semester comes closer, and the tide begins to shift, I can see
each grain coming out of the obscurity of the murky season of production and
settling, and now the vision of our festival and conference finally has a
recognizable face - even better than I'd seen when the semester began, and
greater than anything I could've hoped for or dreamed of.
Metaphors and hyperbole aside, I've had
my eyes positioned so close to my own work, that I'd lost sight of what my
colleagues had been accomplishing around me. While at the beginning of the year
I'd been charged with unearthing, engineering and polishing a few of the
systems with which the production of the event could proceed more smoothly,
I've mostly been swimming through a steady stream of work. Updating the contact
list, searching for invitationals and keeping organized those systems that I'd
put in place. I've had very little in the way of tasks, especially any that
might require some degree of problem solving. Most recently, I'd learned how to
use filemaker pro to create labels with which to mail out posters and letters
to our contacts.
