I’m feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment. Everything was working out great over Christmas break, but now that school has started up I feel like I’m doing a little too much. There’s just so many interesting opportunities I want to take advantage of, but I’m learning to restrain myself. Just this week I had one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make in a long time. I had an amazing job opportunity to come on as the web designer for a new startup. Any other time I would have accepted it, but my plate is full.
Here’s what I’m doing right now:
- Events
- BarCampTX – We’re having BarCamp Texas in Downtown Bryan tomorrow. There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done. Someone needs to drive down to Houston to grab the shirts, and we need to build 2 walls tonight! We’re in a huge room that we want to break up into three rooms, and just this week found out we’d need to build these walls.
- BIL – aka, “The Other TED.” We’re reaching critical mass with this one. We have some amazing speakers already lined up and word is spreading throughout the science and technology community about it. Two days ago we finally confirmed the location – we have a conference center reserved for March 1 & 2. I’m working on promotion mostly right now. Getting interesting people to actually commit to a topic and add themselves to the wiki. We have a little over a month until BIL happens!
- Trip to California – Cody and I are going to California for a week (two of those days being BIL). We’re setting up meetings with all the people and companies we know but haven’t met in person. If you’re interested in meeting up, send me an email.
- School
- Two quizzes on Monday
- Paper due on Tuesday
- Still have work to do in moving my midterms around. I’ll be missing three midterms while I’m in California for BIL. I was able to get BIL considered a “University Sponsored Event” but I still have to work with my professors to move the midterms.
- Reading – some of this falls under school, some pleasure
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – I’ve heard great things about this book for years, and started reading over the Christmas break. I’m only about 150 pages into it (it’s over 1000 pages long), and it’s on the back burner now.
- Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill – for Philosophy 111
- Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant – for Philosophy 111
- The Little Book that Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt – for Finance 421
- The Game by Neil Strauss – This one is about the art of being a pickup artist, and “the community” behind it. One of my friends is friends with a leader in the community, and I thought I’d read up on it in case I run into him. Very interesting book about the psychology of social situations.
- Work
- Still webmaster at Mays Business School. Working on some video stuff at the moment.
- About to relaunch Coursevote, my facebook application.
- We’re launching A blank site at BarCampTX.
- Working on Activist Apparel, a clothing line owned by Always Creative and I.
- Creative Space stuff. We’ve been doing a lot of networking and meetings in Houston recently.
So yeah, that’s a quick summary of what I’m up to. Busy Busy Busy
