Nonprofit update

Sometimes I forget to share bits and pieces of my life that are so diverse, but yet, in my mind it is all connected. I've added a couple of new blogs on the nonprofit part of this simple website. I too am back in school for the semester and working away at a couple of classes this semester. I've worked it out so that I'm retaking my comprehensive exams that I failed. One, after the Thanksgiving break. The other after the Christmas break. As for now, the independent study I'm working on is something I've been working on all year. I did 19 interviews of board members this summer and am coding them with a new qualitative data analysis software called Atlas ti . This is a new learning experience and learning curve so I find that it is taking a bit of time. In addition, the other course I'm taking right now is on leadership research. We've spent the first few weeks tracing the history and development of different leadership theories. It seems that the field of leadership is pretty diverse and there is little agreement about what is real. This last week we got into Implicit Leadership Theory, which is relatively new part of the field, but it studies followers. Can you say, duh? It's about time.

I sat at the spinning wheel for a good while this week too. I had missed a couple of weeks there and I'm glad I had it.

Oh. The girls went to the vet yesterday for their annual check up and shots. Rumor has it that they tried to convince the whole staff they were having near death experiences. Yeah. Right. They came home and settled back in without any traumatic reprecussions.