down time
so it's 4.30 and i am sitting in a syndicate room waiting for my group to show up. how many groups can a facilitator facilitate if the facilitator has no groups for facilitation? I ask you!
today has ended up going well, though i may love to regret words spoken in haste. this is the first i have sat down since lunch, which is only the second time today. this morning, horror of horrors, i realised that neither shayne nor bob had brought down the most up to date versions of the slide set they needed. following which was a confusing phone call to IT getting them to email our stuff across, which still wasn't the right set. but i had a copy in my inbox, which technically i should have deleted, from sending the files across to the print room.
so crisis averted.
then we started talking about facilitating the sessions and how we were going to do it, and only then did i realise that we were going to need to move 4 of the laptops we have hired into the syndicate rooms, after getting them connected to the MBS network as opposed to the Hire Intelligence network (which makes the IT guys here stroppy for some unknown reason, they don't seem to trust me with the authentication key for the network, which is mighty irritating, because what am i going to do with it other than exactly what i say!? ring all my student friends in melbourne and patch them illegally into the network? i mean, come on!).
also, we needed printers, which i had not been told either. so there will need to be either 4 printers, one for each room, or one on each floor (cos we're across 2 levels in this building at the moment), or something. argh. but i am not thinking about it at least until later tonight.
but since we started the beer game... actually since after lunch things have basically gone quite well. i am very tired, but the day hasn't turned out to be the wreck i had anticipated.
i think when i get back and have a couple of months to think about how to smooth out this whole process, nessa and i will be able to figure out some good process documentation, and contingency plans for if anything facilities related relly fucks up.
meantime, i am loving the weather (oddly good for melbourne), and the building, and the food. haven't set foot outside today at all, but pyncheon st was really nice to look at last night, lots of waiters basially hawking their food and trying to usher you in to sit at one of their tables. dan said he basically felt like he was walking through the red light food district, which seems fairly appropriate.
i finished devil wears prada last night. not as good an ending as i was hoping for. fiona p warned me that i probably won't like the movie a whole lot better, and apparently they smooshed two characters together and made them into one hideous frankensteinian character. but anyway.
peeps here. more later!
today has ended up going well, though i may love to regret words spoken in haste. this is the first i have sat down since lunch, which is only the second time today. this morning, horror of horrors, i realised that neither shayne nor bob had brought down the most up to date versions of the slide set they needed. following which was a confusing phone call to IT getting them to email our stuff across, which still wasn't the right set. but i had a copy in my inbox, which technically i should have deleted, from sending the files across to the print room.
so crisis averted.
then we started talking about facilitating the sessions and how we were going to do it, and only then did i realise that we were going to need to move 4 of the laptops we have hired into the syndicate rooms, after getting them connected to the MBS network as opposed to the Hire Intelligence network (which makes the IT guys here stroppy for some unknown reason, they don't seem to trust me with the authentication key for the network, which is mighty irritating, because what am i going to do with it other than exactly what i say!? ring all my student friends in melbourne and patch them illegally into the network? i mean, come on!).
also, we needed printers, which i had not been told either. so there will need to be either 4 printers, one for each room, or one on each floor (cos we're across 2 levels in this building at the moment), or something. argh. but i am not thinking about it at least until later tonight.
but since we started the beer game... actually since after lunch things have basically gone quite well. i am very tired, but the day hasn't turned out to be the wreck i had anticipated.
i think when i get back and have a couple of months to think about how to smooth out this whole process, nessa and i will be able to figure out some good process documentation, and contingency plans for if anything facilities related relly fucks up.
meantime, i am loving the weather (oddly good for melbourne), and the building, and the food. haven't set foot outside today at all, but pyncheon st was really nice to look at last night, lots of waiters basially hawking their food and trying to usher you in to sit at one of their tables. dan said he basically felt like he was walking through the red light food district, which seems fairly appropriate.
i finished devil wears prada last night. not as good an ending as i was hoping for. fiona p warned me that i probably won't like the movie a whole lot better, and apparently they smooshed two characters together and made them into one hideous frankensteinian character. but anyway.
peeps here. more later!
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