I know, I know Rebel that I am lagging behind this week, but
in my defense I was rather busy—again—this week.[1]
1) I got
my accounting test back and it was a respectable 84%. Not bad for a test that I
had split my study between a paper and 2 group project meetings.
2) I
haven’t heard anything about said CD paper. BTW, CD is what we will call
Community Development from now on. We’ll assume no news is good news.
3) The
job interview went well but I haven’t heard back. When I do, I’ll let you know
all the gory details. For now you (read I) just need to remember that job
hunting can be a long process.
4) I met
with an incoming MBA student about our NWA Women’s Shelter partnership. He’s
super excited and I’m excited to have more people!
I did
some other things—like sort a giant stack of files into their proper recycling
piles—but the big thing this week was Business Plan! We’re still working our
way through the sections and it’s a great process with four people and also a
hard process with four people. With four people there are so many ideas and
questions zooming about a room that it’s hard to grab onto the right ones and
keep everyone on task; on the other hand, you don’t want to be too task-oriented
because then you might miss something good. There’s the rub.
I refer
to this stage of the writing/researching process as the spaghetti stage, in
which, we throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. Then you cock your
head to the left and see if it spells anything…Actually, skip that last step
and, also, don’t throw spaghetti at your wall. It’s just an analogy.
Speaking
of analogies, it turns out my entrepreneurship team and I really love us some
analogies. A favorite recently was my analogy for the difference between market
and target market: “Think of it like dating, market is everyone interested in
you that you are willing to date—in my case men—and a target market is the
group of men that I know I will have the most success with—hipsters.” I think a
weekly analogy might have to be a feature of my blog, just sayin’.
This
weekend I get to study for a leadership exam, finish a CD take-home midterm, do
some accounting problems, do some finance problems, finish some GA work…oh and
root for the HOGS!!
