This evening Jenelle and I went to our first coeducational work gathering. All the Knoll CPD staff from East Greenville and their spouses (where applicable) got together up on the hill outside Macungie - at Bear Creek Ski Area - for drinks and dinner. It was fun to experience work/life balance with a few other people that Ryan and I have developed quite a rapport with over the summer. Jenelle seemed a natural addition to the event and we really enjoyed ourselves.
In the midday there was a flurry of MTrek emails that was without rival: almost 50 messages in the span of three hours. What? Joanna called it when she said [my paraphrasing] that MTrek isn't too fun anymore. Somehow I don't think that I really appreciated the amount of year-round work that this organization would be when I signed up in September last. Now I'm finding myself ready to go on the Michigan Trek and have a blast and then kinda be done with it.
This is maybe a bad segue, but I got a note the other day from Damon Dance that Ross Habitat for Humanity (for whom I'm the director of operations) officially has a house. It's on Watling Street in Ypsilanti. Beaut.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006