The project for Hayden Hall is about to wind down. I finished the rough draft of Father Burns' life today, and Shikha wrote up the story of Father Hayden's life, the priest for whom Hayden Hall is named. We got photos of those who were interviewed, and one more interview to complete before everything I promised the new director, Father Kennedy, is done.
This has been a fascinating project, partly because I was present in 2006 when the first replacement for the founder and longtime director showed up. He lasted a very short time, and when I arrived two years later, he'd been successfully banished.
This new director seems better equipped to handle the challenge ahead of him perhaps. There is a great temptation-- and this is the journalist in me aching to come to the fore-- to analyze the situation out loud, partly to get a better grasp of it myself, and partly just because intercine political battles are inherently interesting.
But I'm a professional and so suffice it to say that the booklet Father Kennedy wants to put together will have, by the end of tomorrow, all the "deliverables" (as we say in the contracting biz) delivered.
I was telling my old boss that, once again it is a situation of the housewife's dilemma-- do one little project and there are five others that show up as needing to be done. One of the administrators is working on a grant for a computer lab for the after-school program. could I help her with it? Another one is interested in the web site. What could we do to get in there and add thing?
I came across a new one today. Radha had the grant proposal up but behind the email she was working on. She had just started to print the email when the power went out. When it came back on, the email was pasted to the grant proposal file name and had been saved that way. How could that happen? I looked for a Word temp file that might have the original, to no avail. Just one of those adventures in computing in the third world.
This has been a fascinating project, partly because I was present in 2006 when the first replacement for the founder and longtime director showed up. He lasted a very short time, and when I arrived two years later, he'd been successfully banished.
This new director seems better equipped to handle the challenge ahead of him perhaps. There is a great temptation-- and this is the journalist in me aching to come to the fore-- to analyze the situation out loud, partly to get a better grasp of it myself, and partly just because intercine political battles are inherently interesting.
But I'm a professional and so suffice it to say that the booklet Father Kennedy wants to put together will have, by the end of tomorrow, all the "deliverables" (as we say in the contracting biz) delivered.
I was telling my old boss that, once again it is a situation of the housewife's dilemma-- do one little project and there are five others that show up as needing to be done. One of the administrators is working on a grant for a computer lab for the after-school program. could I help her with it? Another one is interested in the web site. What could we do to get in there and add thing?
I came across a new one today. Radha had the grant proposal up but behind the email she was working on. She had just started to print the email when the power went out. When it came back on, the email was pasted to the grant proposal file name and had been saved that way. How could that happen? I looked for a Word temp file that might have the original, to no avail. Just one of those adventures in computing in the third world.
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