So, I got some news the other day that is exciting and daunting all at once. My paper that I proposed for the Great Lakes History Conference was accepted. Now I just have to put together 20-30 pages for my session and make hotel reservations for that weekend in November. Professionally, this is about as huge as my winning the assistantship at OU. Personally, it’s a little scary. The last time I did a presentation like this I was a junior (was I a junior? I think that was the summer between sophomore and junior year) at Grand Valley State presenting on our work at 20KT275 and 20KT276 at Student Scholarship Day–a completely different animal. I wasn’t flying solo on that one, for starters–I was presenting with two other people. This is all me, and while the work on the subjugation of Wales under Edward I dovetails with my thesis research, it’s different enough that it’s going to take a bit of additional research to really get this together to my satisfaction.
On another note, officers and I announced that we’re shaking the RoA tree. Some people are enthused, I’m not sure how others feel. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, since I’d definately hate for this to fail. I’m glad that we’re no longer working in the dark, though. Folks know that we’re doing something, which is good. Very good. I have to get myself working on the charter documents based on what we have so far, since the whole IC angle of the mess seems to be my strength (well, no, is my strength). And think of what the next set of things on deadline are going to be, since we have a deadline on some things coming up…gee….tomorrow. And then roll from there. I want everything in place before I start my assistantship in September.
Still haven’t told my boss at the mall about the assistantship. I’m putting off the inevitable panic she’s going to have. I’ll tell her in a few weeks.