June 6th I woke up at 4:30am. 11 hours and alot of quality time in the car with my coworkers later, I was in Springfield, MO for the ACSD conference. This is the first year that my position has been a part of this conference and I was geek-tastically excited about it.
It was so good to be out in the Ozarks and the campus we stayed on was beautiful. The plenary sessions were interesting and even if just personally I was encouraged. I could see it being a really great networking place in the future too for work related things...I just wasn't quite brave enough to mingle apart from my group this year.
I did meet some great people from another college at the opening banquet though. I liked them so much I decided to attend their session held over lunch a few days later. The opening slide flashed up and I knew I was in the wrong place... "being a single RD" hahaha. I am not an RD. oops! At least the single part was right. :)
The planning of the conference tried to incorporate the arts. I am a huge fan of this, but unfortunately I was too immature for some of it. A radio personality man read an excruciatingly descriptive poem about nature... I don't know if it was the bellow of his voice or all the frogs hippity hopping; but I just picked a spot, bit my lip and focused on not chuckling.
One of my fave plenary session speakers was Donna Feitas. She was so interesting and candid and funny- pretty much I want to be her when I grow up. :)
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