group dynamics: July 2005 Archives

Carmen is ten weeks old. She's cute of course (not quite as cute as my very own buggle but that's nothing against her, smile), and its amazing to witness the developmental stage. She's responsive to sound and touch and smiles (although if I laugh hard she wonders if she should be afraid!), isn't quite sure her hands are actually attached to her own body, and spends most of her time sleeping, eating, or just looking around and wiggling. It's nice to be around her and hanging out in Quedlinburg with her mom being mellow while her dad (in-laws, or outlaws as the case may be!) is away at a conference.

If you didn't attend the business meeting yesterday you missed:

covert communication typed into the meeting from the computer operator;
Mount Rushmore (four past RID Presidents);
regional and state rivalries;
a challenge to beat the Europeans in donations to WASLI, through RID's "A Day's Pay" program;
and customized (albiet unscripted) martini and fan service.

Perhaps other organizations have as much fun and intercollegiality as we do; but I'm not sure!

There was some drama concerning the now-delayed position paper (Standard Practice Paper) on Video Relay Interpreting and Video Relay Service.

I'm having a roommate adventure fit for a sitcom. Not only is one of my roomies an expert in critiquing presenter quirks, hee hee hee, another has become Queen of the Cell Phone Vibration function after her own cell phone technological nightmare (which does not rival the plague of tech disasters haunting my prep for today's "Why Bother?" presentation with Eileen (who rocks the house!) Our third roomie, who ventured to join us on a whim, had at least a few moments of serious self-questionning, wondering to herself, why did I bother? She did come 'round and decide our interaction was "lively, challenging, and uninhibited." I'm glad our foursome has worked out the way it has. :-)