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Happy New Year and blisters galore

This past week student drama reached a new peak, but looks like it is on the mend, well fingers crossed anyway! I can't even begin to share how much bandwidth this took from staff in the past week, but we all made it through and settled details for the new year. Life lesson of the week, don't walk 6 miles in converse as I can proudly boast quite a few blisters across both my feet. So with that here is to a shorter post and all of my greatest wishes for a sweet new year and the patience to learn and grow!

"a normal week," a conference and more!

 Hi there! I know it's been more than a week but life happens and I am happy and busy, so all good things.  Since my last update, I have gotten to take on more responsibilities regarding the engagement interns, which has been really nice as I get more of my grounding. I will say though that I thought I was prepared for a lot of student reasons for cancelling or changing meetings but "is it safe to walk in a thunderstorm?" did not make that list. Suffice it to say, we hosted a mostly successful hybrid meeting.  Outside of meetings, there are a lot of chats with students over walks, iced teas & coffees, stickers and fidgets! There are a lot of idle chit chat and feelings, but I am growing some good connections and 90% of the complaints I have received are very easy to act on.  Beyond the usual responsibilities, my students are starting to put on programming-this past week we had friendship bracelet making- and we are prepping for the high holidays and alumni weeken...