Things are going well, school wise.  I was introduced at a faculty meeting, and then invited to be a student rep on a committee, and people are hearing good things, so that’s cool.  Today was a big training, though, and I ended up feeling a bit like Cinderella at the ball — at lunch, I was asked to install some software in the lab, and I don’t think anyone really knew how long it would take. I ended up not only missing the second half of the training, but staying an extra two hours so that I could finish the install — meanwhile, the official lab assistant was assisting with training, so I was kind of cranky, allll alone in the basement, waiting for this program to load on two machines before the corporate reps left.  Then, then! They came down, training’s over, I’m still installing (HUGE program, several discs, etc) and the guy is like "Oh, just drop it in the mail on Monday."  So, I could have stayed and done my job upstairs, and done the install on Monday, or had the official lab assistant do it, or have the workstudy kid do it, but I missed the whole party. That sucked.

On the other hand, I was introduced to someone whose name I know from back in the Americorps days, that is sort of the godmother of 1:1, and that was pretty cool.  She spoke about the impact of Maine’s 1:1 on the world, and mentioned that she is going to be putting together teams to be sent to Melbourne, as in AUSTRALIA, as in MY FAVORITE CITY ON EARTH to help them implement their new 1:1.  I swear to god, my first thought was "Oh, good, I have a plan B in case this whole pregnancy doesn’t pan out." Yeah. I know.

Ultrasound on Monday, so it makes sense that I’d be preparing for a worst-case scenario, and obviously I want the reassuring heartbeat more than anything…. but still, international ambassador for instructional technology would be an okay consolation prize, right?