Training Log Archive: barb

To MFA & back - to have lunch with David and hear about BU's arts major.

From other side of town to home and then back later as part of a birthday party dropoff scheme.

I'll be at the Washington DC orienteering event tomorrow and would love to get together with orienteers afterward at the Hunter's Inn for beer & food.

To school to try and get a contact from the gym teacher for the Sargent center people. Vague idea is I'd talk to them about what they already do in terms of orienteering and then see if it might make sense to morph it a little given the programs I'm doing at the school - and the interest I may or may not have in making something happen at the high school. Yeah.

Maybe it's someone I know who does the O piece on this weekend in May for the 8th graders...

Today's albatross: cleared out my queue of papers to assign to Associate Editors for the journal! This was a big albatross for me, so yay!

to school for monthly parents/teachers jr high meeting.

Have been BAD. Eating lots of bad stuff, junk food; caffeine, alcohol. No exercise. Not getting enough done. Feeling kind of unproductive at work. I have so many things I should be getting done, and I am having trouble actually sitting down and doing them.

On the positive side:

We had a nice Thanksgiving holiday with my parents. Watched some really good movies via InstantPlay on NetFlix ("Vitus", "The Illusionist") and saw theater (Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter at the American Repertoire Theater; "Einstein's Dreams" at the new Central Square Theater).

I haven't been eating meat, not even turkey last Thursday.

Tuesday I gave the Tuesday Club girls some theater exercises to do, and they ate them up. They are really into making up little plays - as long as it doesn't get too formal. Next Tuesday we'll go to Lincoln and visit some pet (but hard-working egg-laying) chickens. So there, I am providing some activities, and that's sort of good...

I bought a beginning jazz piano series of books and started teaching the kids. But haven't set up a regular time for them to practice or learn or anything.

Tuesday I took the day off work in order to prepare a presentation which I then gave at the Graham and Parks (school) staff meeting. It was laying out my vision that EVERY kid at the school would orienteer EVERY year. Wouldn't it be cool if by the time they get to junior high, they have learned a set of navigation skills? Wouldn't it be cool if for years they look forward to getting to go on the junior high trip? Wouldn't it be neat if the entire school went to the woods together in September? Will I still be into this when my kids have graduated from the school in 3 years? Anyway, I was basically asking whether the teachers who have not planned orienteering activities with me this year would like to; 8 teachers signed up as "maybe" or "yes" so I have some more business to take care of! More albatrosses!

You can check out the presentation here! It's my first time trying to publish a file using box.net so I will be curious whether it works.

After I spoke, the special ed teacher who is on the junior high team said a few words. She praised my organization skills (OK, now if I could just apply those to my Whole Life!!), talked about how every single student, no matter how challenged they are in regular school, benefits from and enjoys the orienteering activities, and said the other teachers should not miss this opportunity to sign up.

C • teachers 2

C • Not getting enough done... 2

"Get started using your log!"

Did you miss me?

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