Getting back to the Blogging bug

New concerted effort to write on this blog. Years from now, how will I know I even existed if the internet cannot confirm it. I need to start taking this stuff seriously.

I had an amazing conversation with Nick Singer this week where I shared a bit of an article with him. Here is the jist: Christianity effectively created or popularized a new technology (the book) because it NEEDED a comparative reading experience (i.e. flipping between the old and new testaments) so that the religion could emphasize its relevance to Scripture. Previously reading had been a linear experience as in the case of moving through a Torah scroll. That article pretty much blew my mind.

I also had a mediocre conversation just now where the Woolman program coordinator, was complaining about how much time it takes to create our monthly newsletter and how ze had fallen behind on it, and how there is no person being the point-person for our online presence. I have to say I did not respond so well to this in my facial expressions. We hired a Media Outreach Intern, who is under the program coordinator's supervison, and ze just won't work with this intern to have hir help on these tasks (which were the tasks he was hired to do...) Now this intern is definitely amazing, doing all sorts of great work, but the program coordinator is not managing him at all, so this pretty essential work that needs to happen on a timeline is being left to others. Why is it so difficult for people to supervise? The head of school asked me if admissions could take over on these tasks, and I said I'd rather have them focusing on prospective students. I manage my people, and I know they are busy, and I know who should be doing this work, and I also know who should not be complaining about this if ze cannot supervise his interns and gets to choose hir own job description. Okay however vague that little rant might be, please forgive.

The greatest thing about this conversation is that it happened exactly 24 hours before I will be in Phoenix with Bananz, laughing and cajoling, and not at all caring about any monthly newsletter or blog posts, except for these ones.