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threadwalkerI suspect Darth Director is snapping out orders to his direct reports because that thing about stuff rolling down hill? ... My boss swooped in exhibiting classic symptoms of a near brush with Darth Bruce and our team is Crack-a-Lackin' to crunch numbers and summarize stuff.
Boring.
But my brain wanders free to a theme I've been percolating on.
Service vs. Art and how I use my time.
I'm still very angry about the decision to cancel 1 collegium a year and to muck around with the Poppy. Very angry. I ask myself, "So shut-up or put-up, right?"
But I'm in a place where I am working on my arts. I have a lot of exciting ideas (exciting to ME anyway) and I don't have enough bandwidth to pursue both my artistic endeavors and take the lead on organizing anything big. I can take on small pieces and brainstorm, so I can happily help someone else, but be in charge? I can't go super-nova with my passions in two different directions at once. And since "super-nova" is the only way I know how to dial myself in, I'm going to have to continue to fume. And wait for someone else to jump in so that I can volunteer to help.
Fuming... fuming... Like a gassy volcano occasionally spewing off fumes and soot.
And about the Golden Poppy... grr.... Since Merlin and Lee have decided the Kingdom no longer needs a Mt Everest for the artists, I've been thinking about hosting my own endeavor. I think it would be fun if I could get 3-4 (or more!) other artisans to host an arts marathon. We could choose 4 events in the year and invite fellow artisans to do an indepth project in a field that we know something of. It could even become kind of a mentoring thing where there's a kick-off meeting wherein sponsors (such as myself) present enough research to get people started, where everyone could meet, and where projects could be schemed. So instead of encouraging people to lower their expectations, they could raise them. I'm just noodling around with the thought.
Ironically, it's she who was banished for being unladylike that inspired the idea of setting up a meeting point.
ugh... people keep interupting my lunch break. I need to skeedaddle if I'm going to get down time. BUT if anyone is intersted in exploring the concept of a co-hosted projecty thing where you work with others and have some sort of display of hard work/efforts... it probably feels a lot more like the Queen's Artisans without the requirement of involving the Queen in the selection process.
gotta run. Lots of ideas. Looking for other ideas and cohorts.
Boring.
But my brain wanders free to a theme I've been percolating on.
Service vs. Art and how I use my time.
I'm still very angry about the decision to cancel 1 collegium a year and to muck around with the Poppy. Very angry. I ask myself, "So shut-up or put-up, right?"
But I'm in a place where I am working on my arts. I have a lot of exciting ideas (exciting to ME anyway) and I don't have enough bandwidth to pursue both my artistic endeavors and take the lead on organizing anything big. I can take on small pieces and brainstorm, so I can happily help someone else, but be in charge? I can't go super-nova with my passions in two different directions at once. And since "super-nova" is the only way I know how to dial myself in, I'm going to have to continue to fume. And wait for someone else to jump in so that I can volunteer to help.
Fuming... fuming... Like a gassy volcano occasionally spewing off fumes and soot.
And about the Golden Poppy... grr.... Since Merlin and Lee have decided the Kingdom no longer needs a Mt Everest for the artists, I've been thinking about hosting my own endeavor. I think it would be fun if I could get 3-4 (or more!) other artisans to host an arts marathon. We could choose 4 events in the year and invite fellow artisans to do an indepth project in a field that we know something of. It could even become kind of a mentoring thing where there's a kick-off meeting wherein sponsors (such as myself) present enough research to get people started, where everyone could meet, and where projects could be schemed. So instead of encouraging people to lower their expectations, they could raise them. I'm just noodling around with the thought.
Ironically, it's she who was banished for being unladylike that inspired the idea of setting up a meeting point.
ugh... people keep interupting my lunch break. I need to skeedaddle if I'm going to get down time. BUT if anyone is intersted in exploring the concept of a co-hosted projecty thing where you work with others and have some sort of display of hard work/efforts... it probably feels a lot more like the Queen's Artisans without the requirement of involving the Queen in the selection process.
gotta run. Lots of ideas. Looking for other ideas and cohorts.
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Date: 2009-12-14 11:55 pm (UTC)A&S has a very specific history. It happened while I was Kingdom Seneschal. Catch me at an event sometime and I will give you the story.
As for the Poppy as far as I know any changes to the Poppy will keep the bar high. What I have heard is that people want the bar to stay high while making it more attractive to enter. I think it will be interesting to see what happens.
Collegium was originally two times a year so that each Principality had its own. However, attendance is way down. I think it is a good to drop down to one a year and see what we can do to make Collegium a viable event. Right now the attendance is so low it is not paying for itself.
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