A Point of Friction

When you’re under the burner, things could get really hot and short! This week was quite like that. :( My boss and I have been working so hard to develop two major conferences for our clients...so she and I have been short-patient and sensitive this week. Often times we snap at each other, which happened twice this week, and I guess it was because of all the pressure that we’ve been undergoing. We later apologize to each other and keep on working. That’s how fun this place is sometimes.

I have been developing and implementing--piece by piece---all the conference programs for one of my clients. I have been made responsible to develop their conference program from sending out "Call for Papers" (also known as abstracts) to all professionals in the social work and research arena to managing all post-conference items. The CFP typically generates hundreds of abstracts submitted by researchers across United States and few internationals. I am anticipating quite a number of abstracts to be submitted this year as evident with last year’s theme, and also in relation to our venue, which is in New Orleans, LA this year.

That is just the tip of the iceberg! This project will have me tied up for the next 9-10 months. It starts to slow down now momentarily, but activities will pick up at some point in May. Concurrent with that will be my San Francisco meeting, in which I am a part of overseeing the whole logistics of the meeting.

There’s definitely a lot of potential points of time-sensitivity and disconnection from the "fun" world while this project is in progress. I will try my best to disregard the pressure from time to time and just have a good ole time with friends on the weekends. On a positive note, I enjoy traveling for work--seeing other parts of U.S. twice a year! That’s not bad! :)

Well, look what’s here--weekend!! w0ot w0ot! Have fun y’all. Get crunk, but be safe!

d-Jae :)