May 10, 2003
My 101st Entry!
Welcome to my glorious 101st entry. You see, 101 is so much better than 100 because it represents the VERY FIRST ENTRY of my 2nd hundred posts! Quite a cause for celebration! Woo-hoo! Okay... not really.
It is saying something that I reached this point, but looking back over my first 100 posts, it doesn't seem like I've said all that much and certainly haven't posted all of the things that I thought I might post when I started. The other disturbing trend is that the rate of posting is slowing down. Now, this may be mostly because the pace of the quarter is picking up... I think I'll be back to more frequent posting by about the end of this month.
But for those who reallly do want to know more about my Life... Here's a little run-down of what's going on in various areas:
1. My job: As you know from my April 10th Entry, I will not have my job in the IT department in the Fall. So, I am looking at my options. At the moment, I'm waiting to hear a few things from a few different fronts. I'm fine for June, I have some work for July, and August is where it starts to get weird... But by the end of July, I should have had a chance to check out a lot of additional options. Part of me would like to work at RIT, but if that doesn't work out, I won't mind too much. As long as I'm still able to be connected with RIT CCC and the IT department (for adjunct teaching) for about 1 more year.
2. Campus Crusade for Christ: Another major area of my life. I want, very much, to be able to continue to work with the RIT Campus Crusade group for one more year... or at the very least through the beginning of next Fall Quarter as they start to roll into the new year. There are two things that might make me not be involved with CCC beyond the beginning of Fall. 1. If I move out of the area for a job opportunity (which is unlikely, to me)... or 2. If I join CCC staff and need to be sent to another region for training. Part of my initial time with CCC, however, would be spent locating support to be able to go on staff.
In general, things with CCC are going very well at RIT and here in Rochester... This coming fall, for the first time, we'll be able to have our own local Fall Retreat instead of sneaking off and piggybacking on the Fall Retreat for the folks in Buffalo. Which, no doubt, is a lot of fun, but we'll be able to build up our own area's strength with our own Fall Retreat. We have our room on Thursdays for next year, but we haven't yet scheduled out our first couple of weeks worth of activities... we REALLY need to do that very soon. We'll probably be having a couple of meetings over the summer on it. Recent outreaches have gone well. Spring quarter has been very interesting with a Purim Play (complete with controversial Messianic Jews), Jesus Film (where 7 people indicated that they prayed to receive Christ), and an outdoor meeting with a Deaf Speaker in the middle of a dorm quad.
3. My apartment: Things are going well.. the lease is up in August, so if something drastic happens with my Job situation, I wouldn't be stuck beyond the end of the summer, but both of my housemates want to stay for at least another year... so, it's another indicator that I'll likely be staying in Rochester for at least one more year.
4. Kids on Campus: It does look like I'll still be doing Kids on Campus in July this year... There's still the possibility of a government grant coming through to work on the program and potentially create a new summer program similar to my popular MystMaker workshop for a greater number of kids... some portion of which are likely to be disadvantaged. sorry... that was a long sentence.
5. Women: [edited...] A complete mystery. We shall see what the future holds.
6. Games: I am still fully into European/German/Designer Board Games. I recently picked up a copy of Amun-Re. I've played it once. Very cool game. I'm looking forward to introducing to my other boardgaming friends. The boardgame nights have been pretty well-attended this quarter and are likely to get (oddly enough) a boost for the summer. I believe they will be on Wednesday Nights. Those interested should get themselves signed up at: the Games@Six Yahoo Group!
7. End of the Quarter havoc: The end of Spring Quarter is always pretty crazy with everyone potentially leaving, my birthday (on the 16th) in the middle of it, Graduation, plenty of grading, the need to wrap up a lot of other rit business... like clubs, etc., Final good-bye parties (Like Skirmfest this weekend -- to which I'll be bringing a projector and some games.).
8. My illness. The sinus problem that I started this quarter with has recently come back... and has affected my voice... over the last 2 or 3 days I haven't been able to speak well (lots of SARS jokes and people stepping back thinking they're funny)... It's cleared up ever-so-slightly today, so I should be okay at Skirmfest, although I probably won't stay all that long... I'll just leave a few games and the Crokinole board there for people to play with and pick it up later. But what is nice is that for the rest of the quarter, I don't really need to do much speaking... I need to be able to say a few things on Monday at around 10am to my class... but most of that class time will be spent doing group work.
9. Movies. I saw X2. It was good. I'm ready for X3. This weekend... Daddy Day Care looks amusing, but I may not wind up seeing it... What I should have done was go see "A Mighty Wind" but I missed my chance by about 30 minutes... Next weekend is all about the new Matrix movie.
10. I dont' have a number 10, but it seems like such a nice round number that I SHOULD have a 10. Oh! Okay... My cat, Folly, is doing well... but it's time that I got her to a vet. Nothing going terribly wrong... It's just been a while.
I guess that's all for now. I am going to get back into the swing of things, soon... particularly here on my blog... so hang in there! I have not given up!
Posted by Andrew at May 10, 2003 12:32 PM