Lessons Learned

One of the things I make my production students do is send me a lessons learned document after every project. When I did this at the doc institute I would just have them make a bullet list. And also we'd sit in a circle and debrief based off those lists. That works better with grad students than undergrads. When I asked these kids to share what they've learned so that people who hadn't gone yet could avoid making the same mistakes all I got was crickets. I had to sit there silently for 2 minutes before anyone would offer something. But I still make them write something.

So because I think self-assessment is a useful thing, here are my lessons learned from my first semester on the tenure track:

Doors Open Milwaukee

So there's this annual event where for free or cheap you can get into buildings around town that are usually not open to the public. One of my colleagues was going and invited me along. I had no idea what to want to do so I just went along with whatever she wanted.

Welcome to Milwaukee

It's been a month, I should probably tell you that I survived the move.

Beautiful day on the river

The humidity broke so after mowing the lawn I rewarded myself with a 4 mile paddle. I only got pictures of the egrets, but I also saw gulls, a cormorant, an osprey, 2 ducks, and 2 ??? (small, speckled brown on top, white on the bottom, pecking in the mud at the edge of the water).

My new house

I didn't take as many pictures as I intended because the husband was there showing us around, so mostly the realtor photos are a good view. Here's a few that I took though.

2016 Family Reunion

For now just photos. Give me a week and check back and I'll add some videos of the Folks vs Peeps competition. Folks won the Passaukee this year (again) taking the Ladder Ball, Salad Bowl, Bocchi Ball, and the tie breaking kayak race. The Peeps won the the Egg Toss, Volleyball, and team standing on the SUP.

June Cape Things

How is it June already? Tick tock tick tock.

And now it's July. I'm leaving today to give others a chance to enjoy the Cape. I'll be gone for the first half of the month, and shooting a film in the second in half of the month so this ends my time of savoring.