this stuff never goes away
Jun. 5th, 2007 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightToday's unwelcome teachable moment: This Stuff Never Goes Away.
This morning I gave a dog&pony demo (as part of a much larger set of dogs&ponies) to an unseen audience (conference call) that included the entire management chain between me and the CEO. I don't like giving presentations, and I rushed through this one, missing a couple points that I had mentally rehearsed, but hadn't gotten into the script.
Then I had to start on my self-review (due Friday), something I like even less than presenting. Not that I haven't accomplished anything in the last year, but it all ends up feeling so fake.
Kylie is transitioning to the middle school program at the Montessori next year, and Francie and I had a meeting with the MS teachers this morning about their concerns about her, having observed her for a day a couple weeks ago.
In the car on the way home from school, we talked about how This Stuff Never Goes Away - the writing, the presentations, the work contracts, the reviews of same. You can choose to embrace it, you can choose to suffer through it, but you can't often choose to reject it without quitting the stuff you enjoy as well.
Talked to Dan this evening. He's started on his round the world bike trip - left DC 6/1, currently on the VA/NC border, having (he swears this is true) ripped his carbon fiber handlebars in half. Being who he is, he has fiberglass repair tape (intended for his leg), and did a field repair of said handlebars. But the sponsor that supplied the bike (Toyota United Pro Cycling Team) is working with Fuji to build him an actual touring bike, because a double-chainring carbon-fiber racing bike is NOT the thing to haul a touring trailer (not to mention Dan himself) across the country.
(He's also got a kids oriented blog.)
I guess the This Stuff Never Goes Away tie-in is that Dan has spent the best part of the last year organizing this trip, lining up sponsors, talking from everyone from corporations to news outlets to the State Department to the Jordanian royal family about the trip, and the mission of the trip. All it takes to go from concept to reality is a helluva lotta time, money, persistence, and cohones.
This morning I gave a dog&pony demo (as part of a much larger set of dogs&ponies) to an unseen audience (conference call) that included the entire management chain between me and the CEO. I don't like giving presentations, and I rushed through this one, missing a couple points that I had mentally rehearsed, but hadn't gotten into the script.
Then I had to start on my self-review (due Friday), something I like even less than presenting. Not that I haven't accomplished anything in the last year, but it all ends up feeling so fake.
Kylie is transitioning to the middle school program at the Montessori next year, and Francie and I had a meeting with the MS teachers this morning about their concerns about her, having observed her for a day a couple weeks ago.
In the car on the way home from school, we talked about how This Stuff Never Goes Away - the writing, the presentations, the work contracts, the reviews of same. You can choose to embrace it, you can choose to suffer through it, but you can't often choose to reject it without quitting the stuff you enjoy as well.
Talked to Dan this evening. He's started on his round the world bike trip - left DC 6/1, currently on the VA/NC border, having (he swears this is true) ripped his carbon fiber handlebars in half. Being who he is, he has fiberglass repair tape (intended for his leg), and did a field repair of said handlebars. But the sponsor that supplied the bike (Toyota United Pro Cycling Team) is working with Fuji to build him an actual touring bike, because a double-chainring carbon-fiber racing bike is NOT the thing to haul a touring trailer (not to mention Dan himself) across the country.
(He's also got a kids oriented blog.)
I guess the This Stuff Never Goes Away tie-in is that Dan has spent the best part of the last year organizing this trip, lining up sponsors, talking from everyone from corporations to news outlets to the State Department to the Jordanian royal family about the trip, and the mission of the trip. All it takes to go from concept to reality is a helluva lotta time, money, persistence, and cohones.
