Energy
I had some friends over for dinner and games yesterday; two of them were friends-of-friends when they arrived and really-truly friends when they left, which makes me happy.
Despite keeping late-ish hours, I woke up this morning feeling energetic, and I only picked up more energy from the library-remodeling meeting. I’m just really, really jazzed about that—by the time this is over, we’ll have done much more of the planning and development than we were expected to do, and the eventual result promises to be absolutely smashing.
It’s a very different project from any one I’ve ever led before. I have led projects (even when “project leader” wasn’t exactly in my job title), but they were technical projects. All I had to do was figure out a route from A to B for a set of bits and implement it, with help where needed.
This is marvelously different. This has been about scoping out the territory, figuring out who needed to be in which smoke-filled room, gathering data and using it wisely, and tying together a lot of people who don’t know each other but ought to.
I couldn’t have done this five years ago. Heck, I’m not even sure about one year ago. But now I’m doing it, and it’s all working, and I’m finding that it’s a lot of fun.
One of my groupmates suggested that since this is a career-portfolio sort of project, a website celebrating it would be a fine resource for all of us. I quite concur with that… so keep your eye on textartisan.com ’round about late April or early May.
Despite accidentally leaving the Silver Surfer’s electrical cord in the SLIS library and having to go back to campus to retrieve it (I am suffering rather a lot of absentmindedness of that variety these days), I got another résumé out, and am gearing up to tackle a really grotty online-application system. (Argh, plain-text résumé you want? Why did I have to waste all that print and XHTML/CSS design time?)
In the meantime, I printed out a couple-three copies of the résumé for ACRL. The nice thing about having a couple of interviews under my belt is that I know the résumé is effective or I wouldn’t have gotten that far. So I can print it out sight unseen, trust it’ll be all right, and spend my effort on cover letters.
And somebody backed out of our LITA chapter’s tech-trends demo session this afternoon, so I’m the last-minute replacement with a few minutes’ chat on blogs, RSS, and the like. I was sort of hoping to do some writing on the final library-renovation report, but oh well.
Heck with energy bars and energy drinks. Good projects and good friends are where the energy comes from.