I knew I wasn’t up for any SLIS writing or project awards this year. As good a year as it’s been for me, it hasn’t been one for impressive projects. (Finding a job. Now that would be an impressive project.)
Didn’t bother me. I had my moment last year, when for confidence’s sake I really needed it, and I’m all for glory-sharing anyway.
So the news (received by email just now) that I’m getting the Carol Berger Award for Entrepreneurial Promise sent my jaw plunging to the floor.
Though the award description isn’t up on SLIS’s website, I don’t think we’re talking the garage-millionnaire sense of “entrepreneurial” here. (Just as well, as I’m no millionnaire and my garage is a mess.) TAG is a nice little sideline, but it’s not so much with the raking-it-in. (TAG redesign and restructure coming soon. Promise. I have very good design talent—meaning, someone who definitely isn’t me—working on it.)
But if we’re talking about somebody who jumps on opportunities with both feet, I’ll cop to that. It’s never felt that way to me—I’m not usually terribly calculating about it. Opportunities are. They’re everywhere. Often they go unclaimed. What’s not to jump on?
So, anyway, yes. Just got whacked in the face with a totally unexpected award. Definitely preferable to a dead fish.
