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Nothing Functions Like A Deadline: Preparing for March 21st

I’m writing this from my parent’s house in New Jersey, where I’m spending time with the fam on my mom’s birthday. Tomorrow I’m speaking to my sister’s social media class at Centenary College before busing it to New York for a few days and then flying to San Francisco on Thursday, then back to Detroit on the 10th.

Along the way I’m fitting in as many meetings and as much brainstorming and as much work as possible for LOVELAND season 2. Besides the birthday and the joy of seeing some friends, that’s the point of the trip.

I think I tend to function like a printer. I slide across the page and leave a bunch of tiny dots that don’t look like much by themelves, and then I move down just a little and slide across again, and again, and again, and sure enough a picture starts to show up. Hey! Look at that!

And lord knows I could print all day, spitting stuff out behind an infinite progress bar, but if you really want to make a picture you gotta gitter done, and nothing helps done like a deadline. The deadline I’m targeting is the first day of spring, which falls between March 20th and 21st. That’s when the picture of season 2 will be done and up.

Of course, a lot will unfold after the start of season 2, but that’s when the functional framework will have to be in place by. The look and the feel and the goal and the invitation to participate.

At the same time, we’re still catching up on the end of season 1. There are still way more things to mail out and emails to get back to than I thought there’d be, and the budget is tiiight. I think a normal person would be scared witless about everything left to do and all the uncertainty.

Fortunately, this is where being a crazy person who’s comfortable with an elephant’s dose of chaos and uncertainty really pulls through for me! haha. Obviously not crazy-crazy, but comfortable being improvisational and figuring things out as we go along, and letting that be part of the fun and interestingness.

As part of the push for spring and getting things done for the deadline, I’m going to start doing a more complete job of updating goals and tasks and questions and difficulties over the next 3 weeks right here on this blog.

As always, my number is 908-343-1981, my email is jerry[at]gmail[dot]com, and I’m usually totally visitable in Detroit, though for the next week+ you can find me in New York and San Francisco.

Ready… Set… Go!