Month: March 2005

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great dinner!

Tonight was the higher education web professionals dinner that I organized…and it went very well. The restaurant was affordable and comfortable, with fantastic service and good food. (Costas on University Ave, if you’re wondering.) 17 people showed up, including me: maybe half from various bits of the UW, but the rest from a variety of schools.

All chit-chat and networking, and everybody seemed to enjoy it. I’ll be emailing everybody next week, and I want to try to organize another dinner (or maybe a lunch) for April or May. Maybe even make it more of a professional thing; see if somebody wants to speak about a project or topic…that would be cool.

My secret plan, as I told a couple of people, is to get this really going and organize an honest-to-god conference in another year or so. I think tonight was an excellent first step.

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late nite thoughts

sometimes I think I’ve forgotten who I am, or at least who I used to strive towards being. there is a version of myself that is struggling to be expressed…I don’t know where to start, though.

I think, for my site redesign, I’m going to search through my old postcard collections for inspiration.

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sigh

but in a good way. the weather cleared up this afternoon, so I spent a little time puttering around in my garden: transplanting lamb’s ear and an unknown (name forgotten) decorative grass, planting lettuce, arugula & spinach in a box planter, repotting a baby tree, plucking grass out of the beds (I don’t know if that’s “still” or “already”), rearranging the stuff on the patio.

there remains a ton to do, of course, now that February is a thing of the past, the days are getting longer, and everything is starting to grow. crocuses are already in bloom; more surprisingly, I’ve got a few violas already going, and I’m seeing the first hint of a tulip blooming.

it nags at me, nibbling away at the back of my brain, but for a moment I can look out at my vista and enjoy it.