Tomorrow I head to Boston for the annual ACPA Convention (one of the major national associations for higher education professionals, if you did not know). This will be my fourth year going and third year presenting, which is pretty crazy and awesome. I love this time of year not only because I get to build those presnetation skills, but I get to see my friends and colleagues from across the country. Okay, well, this year I get to see the ones who can still afford to go because of budget cuts. And the added perk is getting to travel to Boston, of course.
My goal is to blog like I did a few months ago for the Women's Leadership Institute. I found it to be a good way to process. However, I know ACPA will likely provide me with less reflection time. But here's to goal setting!
Sidenote: The new "Alice in Wonderland" in IMAX 3D was much better than expected!
3/8/10
Adult Decisions
Maybe my goal of "retroactive blogging" in my last post was a bit too ambitious. Too much seems to be going on now to think backwards. Case in point, my weekend of what I would call adult decisions.
Okay, it was not really a weekend full of them. Really only two. I have to stop here and say that my amazing friend Tara came to visit, and judging by our karaoke experience on Friday, the term "adult" may be a stretch. But I will take the moment here and mention we had a blast, and it was a much needed weekend together.
So what were my adult decisions? One, the week leading up to last weekend forced me to think seriously about my career. Long story short, I applied for a job a while back that I actually ended up taking myself out of the running for on Friday. The experience has made me really sit back and think not only about what I have done and learned in the past two years as a professional but also about where I want to go from here. As evident in my previous post, this is a prominent conversation around here. However, this most recent decision has really made me realize that I need to really think about where I want to go from here. It has also made me even more grateful for some pretty amazing people in my life that I have been able to talk to about it while they face some major decisions of their own.
My second decision may not seem as poignant, but it is one I feel like sharing nonetheless. I finally took out by naval piercing. (insert snarky comments here) I had it done right when I turned 18. It just seemed like the thing to do at the time, but I have never really had a reason to have it. I am not the midriff-bearing type of woman. However, I have had it for so long, it was just part of me. I have talked about permanently removing it for literally years at this point, and I finally did it.
Connection between the decisions: I must be something of an adult to turn down a job, I can take out the naval ring. (This is pretty much what I said to Tara when I did it, too.) Really. I am 26 years old. I have not really felt like it until now I think. Whether I like it or not, it is adult decision time. Although this in no way means I will start acting like an adult in all situations from this point out. Tara and I do plan to revisit the karaoke. ;-)
Sidenote: Shutter Island was not worth the money to see. If you want, rent it, but do not spend the money or two and a half hours at the theater for it. Trust me.
Okay, it was not really a weekend full of them. Really only two. I have to stop here and say that my amazing friend Tara came to visit, and judging by our karaoke experience on Friday, the term "adult" may be a stretch. But I will take the moment here and mention we had a blast, and it was a much needed weekend together.
So what were my adult decisions? One, the week leading up to last weekend forced me to think seriously about my career. Long story short, I applied for a job a while back that I actually ended up taking myself out of the running for on Friday. The experience has made me really sit back and think not only about what I have done and learned in the past two years as a professional but also about where I want to go from here. As evident in my previous post, this is a prominent conversation around here. However, this most recent decision has really made me realize that I need to really think about where I want to go from here. It has also made me even more grateful for some pretty amazing people in my life that I have been able to talk to about it while they face some major decisions of their own.
My second decision may not seem as poignant, but it is one I feel like sharing nonetheless. I finally took out by naval piercing. (insert snarky comments here) I had it done right when I turned 18. It just seemed like the thing to do at the time, but I have never really had a reason to have it. I am not the midriff-bearing type of woman. However, I have had it for so long, it was just part of me. I have talked about permanently removing it for literally years at this point, and I finally did it.
Connection between the decisions: I must be something of an adult to turn down a job, I can take out the naval ring. (This is pretty much what I said to Tara when I did it, too.) Really. I am 26 years old. I have not really felt like it until now I think. Whether I like it or not, it is adult decision time. Although this in no way means I will start acting like an adult in all situations from this point out. Tara and I do plan to revisit the karaoke. ;-)
Sidenote: Shutter Island was not worth the money to see. If you want, rent it, but do not spend the money or two and a half hours at the theater for it. Trust me.
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