Rarely do I ever get excited about work.  I know, it’s sad, and a little bad, but it’s hard to be enthused by regulations and accountability reports.  To sort of keep things interesting for me, I started volunteering in a committee to plan seminars for our organization.  Basically, we get speakers to present topics that are of interest to our audience and helpful to their jobs.  For example, one of the seminars was about the multi-generational workplace.  Understanding the differences among veterans, boomers, gen-x, and y helps us to overcome possible conflicts and maybe even use those differences to our benefit.  These seminars are usually zero budget with an audience of about 150 people and a crowd of webcast watchers.  I’m trying to push for our audience to webcast more because it saves gas!  But there are obstacles to that, remember the generational-divide issue I mentioned earlier?       

So the reason why I’m all excited now is because of next month’s seminar.  One lady, who normally isn’t in our committee, somehow was able to get John Christensen, the author of Fish! to present for us!!  He’s a bit of a celebrity author and I’m so excited, I’m bringing his books to the presentation so he can sign them.  I’ll keep you posted if there’s a webcast.  Did I mention I am EXCITED?!?!  I hope I catch a fish. :)