Our office

SUSTAIN-SLO has an office! I use "office" very loosely. It is a 10 by 8 foot room on the fourth floor of the library. Linda had the very bright idea of it not looking like an office at all...which it does not. Imagine this: white boards on two walls (floor to ceiling), butcher paper and large post-its on one wall and a window on the last. A small table with five small stools (think pre-school) and a thrift store orange naugahyde chair. I hope to post a picture here too.

It has been very helpful for us to get everything out of our heads and onto the white board, but I have to admit that Linda and I do get quite anxious when we see all that needs to be done in a short time. We both are fighting to not be "heroic" in our attempts to make something happen.

Both of us are very good at "doing." I even teach project management classes, with Work Breakdown structures and gantt charts in my head it is difficult to have a different disposition. This is where Roger has been invaluable. He has taught me to hold the intent of SUSTAIN-SLO and then notice how that is happening. This might seem foreign to some, it does to me, but it is really very useful when all the details seem overwhelming.

I hope some of you can come to visit us now that we have a physical location. I forgot to mention how lovely our the Kennedy Library is. It is really the center of the academics on campus. Students spend hours studying together and sharing a coffee. We feel very lucky to be welcomed so nicely into that building.