Dt.Cokes and Rice Krispie Treats: or How I Get Things Accomplished

     First draft of the business plan is done—well minus financials but that’s not my area so I can’t really do those—and all it took was 1.75 seasons of Burn Notice and half of a box of Rice Krispie treats.[1] Though to be honest the work is just beginning, because now we’ve hit the stage  where it’s about fixing the weak spots in our plan and the problem with that is that about the time you get one weak spot solved  five more pop up. We’ll get there; we’ve got a great team.

   In other news, it’s finally scarf weather and you know what that means? It’s time for me to crochet some scarves. I bought some yarn, pictured right, the other day. It’s nice, soft wool yarn, which is perfect for scarves. I plan on making a one for me with each color, but I bought extra to make some for friends and family.[2] I’ll try to post some pictures of the finished project.

   Guess what? Two days of class/work this week! (That’s all I really have. I’m just really ready for Thanksgiving break and a couple of days off with my family.) After the long week that was last week—btw, I passed everything—it’s just time for some days off.

   In GWIB news, we’re having a Tacky Sweater party. If you’re a prospective student, MMBA or alumni, we’d love to have you. It’ll be Dec. 9^th from 7:30-9:30 at Grub’s. Tacky Sweaters are must. (Though, we’ll loosely interpret tacky.)

   Alright, that’s it for this week, kids. Be good and have fun.[3]         

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[1] I don’t think I’ve mentioned this but I love Burn Notice, probably as much as I love Doctor Who. Obviously, I have a thing for quirky group dramas that involve solving a problem—one with power tools, duct tape and cell phones and the other with a sonic screwdriver.

[2] Hopefully by now you’ve figured out that I like projects, especially projects that involve making or fixing things. This also seems to explain my love of the shows mentioned above.  

[3] My mom once told me that. Then my friends and I joked that if you graphed “be good” and “have fun” using a Venn Diagram the circles wouldn’t intersect on a 3-D plane, which involves my friends and I circling our arms out to the side like the bunch of nerds we obviously are. (Oddly enough, this also seems to explain my love of the TV shows mentioned above.)

Day late…and, well, a lot of dollars short

I know, I know Rebel that I am lagging behind this week, but in my defense I was rather busy—again—this week.[1]

So updates first:

               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!!

              

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[1] And no, there will never be a week when I don’t use this as an excuse for something.