I want to share my day with all two or three of you. I spent the entire day at an agency wide development conference. I've been through these things before. In fact, in the past, in a former life, or a prior job, perhaps, I would have presented something at a similar event...Maybe a powerpoint presentation illustrating why it is important to promptly answer calls in a phone queue. I have historically considered these kinds of things pretty much utter bullshit though. As far as I'm concerned...if you want to know how to make the front lines better, ask the men and women on the front lines.

Having said that...

I enjoyed most of my day today. I enjoyed learning more about the organization that I am, for better or for worse, a part of. I enjoyed talking with people from the various departments within the organization. I enjoyed the keynote speaker, who started off weakly by reciting numbers, (facts, figures and so on at 9 in the morning) but who also came on strongly at the end to make resonating points about the importance of getting kids what they need before the slim window of opportunity passes by. I heard a lot of the kind of things that a crazy, progressive, commie, hippie, liberal, bleeding-heart needs to hear to help cleanse, and strangely enough, at the same time, perpetuate and deepen the sense of overwhelming guilt that one of a said disposition has when born in a middle class america that is not at all half bad.

My apologies to Bears fans.

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