Here I am - Alaska! ;-)
Slept well, despite the fact that the touchpad on my laptop stopped working. I don"t have a backup plan for no powerpoint!
I'm giving myself credit for arriving early - have all day today to get it fixed. Might be a hint that it is time to upgrad he ol" pzmo to a newbie with OSX> (Not today! But soon. Bill wil be happy for me.)
Meanwhile - am getting nervous about the presentations. I hope the design works!
We are going to rock the house! :-) Spent today refining the design; I'm feeling quite good about it.
I'm building on success from Boston's PM/WAD workshop at the CGO, where we really nailed a problematic moment with a sophisticated group of organizational diversity consultants. Exhausting (I'll need good rest!), but gives me a great sense of optimism for the large group activity in the workshop. Had a fun flurry of emails today from the organizers - always love to pick up the jazz via cyberspace!
Also building on all the recent paper-writing on problematic moments (and aren't I glad THAT's done for awhile!) and the CGO workshop, I did something new while interpreting last week that I've never done before and don't recall seeing anyone else do. There was a moment of din - when literally everyone in the group burst out with something at the same time. Instead of trying to continue with the thread of the primary speaker's comment I represented the verbal action of the din. It felt...right, somehow. :-) The Deaf interlocutor was with the group's outburst, not informed of it after the fact.
CIT has just opened a new website full of goodies. :-) Looks like they will run regular discussions too. Neat! Funny timing too, as I just wrote the check for this fall's conference a few hours ago.
