{"id":893,"date":"2005-05-13T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2005-05-13T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T16:23:00","slug":"morninglunch-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"morning\/lunch notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. UNC Printing Services is the bane of my existence this morning. They managed to mess up a 1-color 200-item job they’ve printed several years in a row. This is the equivalent of getting into a wreck while driving a car straight down an empty six-lane highway with no turns. It doesn’t happen. Not only was the job a day late, it was printed on the wrong paper and the middle signature was backwards. Obviously it was unusable and it ended up letting down one of my favorite clients over in General Administration. Frabjous day, really. If there wasn’t some annoying little legal clause about Printing Services having first right of refusal on every job that comes out of here (since we’re both parts of the University), I’m pretty sure we’d send everything elsewhere. *sigh* Trying to decide what to e-mail the client in the job post-mortem is tricky.<\/p>\n

2. I’ll say it again: This station<\/a> rocks my socks. They’re playing David Gray’s “Babylon” at the moment, a song that I singlemindedly, unashamedly love.<\/p>\n

3. Eventually, I’d really like to coach an Odyssey of the Mind<\/a> team. It’s an organization I was heavily involved in during the latter half of high school and the first couple of years of college. I can’t recall ever having more fun in my life than our team’s trip to World Finals (the highest echelon of competition) in Knoxville, Tennessee, during my sophomore year at NCSU. It will be said, though, that in terms of fun, that year narrowly edges out my other years of involvement in the program–they were all priceless. Something about spending a whole year together, going through the ringer together with a small group of other people… I’m sure most of you have experienced it to a degree.<\/p>\n

And coaching a team–I can see myself falling very readily into such a role, especially after my teaching experiences last fall. When it’s a subject or a process with which I’m well-acquainted and have an affection for, there are few things I enjoy more than imparting that knowledge and that love to others. During my run last night my mind drifted onto thoughts of how it might be as a coach, and I was inundated with things I’d want to say, to communicate, to draw out of the group of kids. It would be a blast.<\/p>\n

4. It’s David’s birthday today. Gotta do some lightning shopping this evening after work in preparation for the party tonight. Wow. My parents are teenager-less for the first time in 13 years. Happy big two-oh, D-Funk! One more year, then we can party ’til we’re purple :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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