Yesterday: 0:32 hr blogging. Went to bed at 6am, got up this morning at 10:45am.
Why am I not at my 11-2 chatty chair date with J right now, you ask? Cuz we renegotiated for another half hour; she too was up til the ungodlies. Congrats, there's a new luvva in her bed! The name's Dell, a lap dancer.
...Did I mention that Dell's a computer? Oh, your dirty mind! No, this is the new laptop that's been crazing J with anticipation all week. Arrived yesterday afternoon, while she was supposed to be working. She's funny: she called me up to tell me how she was in denial; that a box was sitting in her living room, but she was just going to ignore it and sit in her bedroom a little longer...
[J just read this over my shoulder and corrected me. The brand is of course Dell, but her name is Adelle. Oh...]
So, welcome to the family, Adelle. Hope you're comfortable sharing bedspace with J's other luvvas. (Knitting, piles of books.)
G's brain was buzzing yesterday from our Sunday conversation. Ah, learning theory! :-) Went over after the Crisis Line meeting to have a walk and talk about ideas. But there was an empty parking lot full of autumn leaves that we had to play in. Poor us!
Riffing on some things she printed out from her journal for me, now I'm playing with another permutation of the YL questions list concept from two days ago.
She's urging me to define my audience. One way of doing this would be to identify different levels of knowledge / involvement:
0. Introductory - only passing curiosity
1. Beginner - uninvolved, but interested in resolving their own opinion; potential supporter
2. Intermediate - involved in activism, wants strong understanding
3. Expert - leadership level, wants to know everything
Alternately, the sections could be titled: 101, 201, 301, 401...
I imagine a book could be organized using this structure, each section longer than the last by a factor of five. Most of the same questions would be repeated, just with more in-depth answers. I like this idea!
Yesterday's word of the day: Alluvial: 1. of or pertaining to alluvium...
[Alluvium: 1. a deposit of sand, mud, etc. formed by flowing water. 2. the sedimentary matter deposited thus within recent times, esp. in the valleys of large rivers.]
...Actually, I think I'm more enamored with the word "Tributary" right now. But "alluvial" sounded more impressive.
Yesterday's made up word of the day: Beautimous: syn. beautiful. [Kudos, G!]
Yesterday was the last fundraising meeting before the 30th Birthday event. Biggest turn-out I've seen at one of these meeting. Interesting. Nothing much to say there, but the meeting I had set with Aimee immediately beforehand was productive. Came up with four concrete, measurable goals for the first quarter of 2004. [More about that later; I'm almost out of time.]
Hey, I heard an interview on NPR about nanotech yesterday. For reasons I now forget, the interviewee said that at 32 you turn one BILLION seconds old.
WOW! I did some preliminary math, and indeed it's close. Need to follow up with calculations that take leap years into account. Hee! Now there's a significance to 32 that I can get behind!
Why am I not at my 11-2 chatty chair date with J right now, you ask? Cuz we renegotiated for another half hour; she too was up til the ungodlies. Congrats, there's a new luvva in her bed! The name's Dell, a lap dancer.
...Did I mention that Dell's a computer? Oh, your dirty mind! No, this is the new laptop that's been crazing J with anticipation all week. Arrived yesterday afternoon, while she was supposed to be working. She's funny: she called me up to tell me how she was in denial; that a box was sitting in her living room, but she was just going to ignore it and sit in her bedroom a little longer...
[J just read this over my shoulder and corrected me. The brand is of course Dell, but her name is Adelle. Oh...]
So, welcome to the family, Adelle. Hope you're comfortable sharing bedspace with J's other luvvas. (Knitting, piles of books.)
G's brain was buzzing yesterday from our Sunday conversation. Ah, learning theory! :-) Went over after the Crisis Line meeting to have a walk and talk about ideas. But there was an empty parking lot full of autumn leaves that we had to play in. Poor us!
Riffing on some things she printed out from her journal for me, now I'm playing with another permutation of the YL questions list concept from two days ago.
She's urging me to define my audience. One way of doing this would be to identify different levels of knowledge / involvement:
0. Introductory - only passing curiosity
1. Beginner - uninvolved, but interested in resolving their own opinion; potential supporter
2. Intermediate - involved in activism, wants strong understanding
3. Expert - leadership level, wants to know everything
Alternately, the sections could be titled: 101, 201, 301, 401...
I imagine a book could be organized using this structure, each section longer than the last by a factor of five. Most of the same questions would be repeated, just with more in-depth answers. I like this idea!
Yesterday's word of the day: Alluvial: 1. of or pertaining to alluvium...
[Alluvium: 1. a deposit of sand, mud, etc. formed by flowing water. 2. the sedimentary matter deposited thus within recent times, esp. in the valleys of large rivers.]
...Actually, I think I'm more enamored with the word "Tributary" right now. But "alluvial" sounded more impressive.
Yesterday's made up word of the day: Beautimous: syn. beautiful. [Kudos, G!]
Yesterday was the last fundraising meeting before the 30th Birthday event. Biggest turn-out I've seen at one of these meeting. Interesting. Nothing much to say there, but the meeting I had set with Aimee immediately beforehand was productive. Came up with four concrete, measurable goals for the first quarter of 2004. [More about that later; I'm almost out of time.]
Hey, I heard an interview on NPR about nanotech yesterday. For reasons I now forget, the interviewee said that at 32 you turn one BILLION seconds old.
WOW! I did some preliminary math, and indeed it's close. Need to follow up with calculations that take leap years into account. Hee! Now there's a significance to 32 that I can get behind!
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