Data Crunch Fever

[threadwalker]

I 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.

Comments

[ysabella-dolfin.livejournal.com]

I would be willing to do the autocrat side of a Collegium-style event. We could run it like a local Teufelberg event and use the school you used for the first one I made the lunches for? We are doing multiple A&S class tracts at West/An Tir this year. I know not everyone will be able to make the long drive, but it was so well received last year. I probably had 12-15 people at my medieval preserved foods class. Maybe as one thing goes away, the trick is to create other opportunities? That said, I would be willing to do the web page and autocrat if someone else would run the A&S classes and organize the class tracts and rooms. I am sure I could wrangle a feastocrat and do some box lunches.