Tunnel Vision

Well, this is my swing week...a little Greenlights, alot of University of Texas, and a growing list of Psychology without Borders tasks and questions. It has been an interesting week!

The technology has been enough of a challenge to eclipse emotional reactions to the transition. Leaving Greenlights on Monday, I carefully closed down email, voicemail, and put all my important files onto the Greenlights server for all staff to use. When I got in on Tuesday, to run a 3-hour class, and wanted to download some materials from the server, I found I could not access these files.....I am now getting email from University of Texas, Psychology without Boders, and Yahooo....and trying to get all the mail going into the same mailbox, much less get all the outgoing mail sent...has proved to me a challenge. But I am confident that by the end of the month, I will know how to maneuver email and settle into one of my three offices with a rhythm.

On Tuesday I said farewell to the Greenlights Board at their January meeting, which had been rescheduled due to the ice and winter weather. So I was there as the guest...with Matt doing an admirable job of taking on the ED role. It felt odd, but good, to leave after my brief presentation, knowing the team was in capable hands. I keep thinking of things to tell Matt, but I am holding my piece.....he may not have need of all this info, at least not yet.

Matt and I will be doing a bit of visiting over the next few weeks - with one another, to continue the download, and with key stakeholders who need to meet Matt and bond with the new team. I am hopeful I can fit in all this, in between the other work I have committed to do. I think, ruefully, that my tendency to say yes may have gotten me overcommitted. One more way to ignore the realities of the transition from Greenlights.