I am sitting on the couch, debating just how much time I should allow myself to get ready before meeting a bunch of people at the Unicorn and then at Havana. And I’m thinking about how proud I am for suddenly getting super involved in a whole bunch of different things. Here’s what I’m up to:
Pacific NW Global Donors Conference: I volunteered to help out with logistical support in the weeks leading up to the first (hopefully annual) Pac NW Global Donors Conference. I don’t know much (or really, anything) about international grantmaking and so I’m excited about the opportunity to learn about the field and to hear from a really amazing set of speakers. Seriously, the program is impressive and I can only imagine what effort has gone into planning this.
I’ll be involved with blogging in the days leading up to the event, and helping to coordinate the logistics with the hotel among a variety of other things.
Coincidentally, on the same day I got involved with the conference, I also agreed to help out with the Seattle Arts & Lectures event that is coming up in late March. Yet another group I know nothing about and a whole new set of people to meet. Speaking of which, I have four tickets to see Michael Chabon and Laila Lalami in March and May, which is pretty neat. If you’d like to come, let me know!
Which brings me to this little sidenote: When I Googled Michael Chabon, I came up with this. And even though I haven’t read the book, I always appreciate a good non de plume story and am hoping to someday form my own opinions.
And finally, working on both the local and national levels of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy is keeping me in the philanthropic game and giving me the opportunity to connect with people all across the country. Which is why I’ll be attending my first meeting as a board member in Sleepy Hollpw, NY next week, and the spending two days in the city with some old friends.
All this is to say, being busy is great! And not great. But I am loving the fact that I get to see my great friends all the time, that I’m working out regularly, that I have both professional and social obligations up the giggy, that I’m going out of town, and that my hair is so fabulous lately that I get at least two compliments a day.
It’s so funny. I didn’t even notice that I wasn’t getting compliments until I STARTED getting them again. Which I think means that I got ugly and no one bothered to tell me, and now I’m pretty again. Yeah, I said it.
Posted on February 26, 2010
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