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August 15, 2006
Summer Wrap Up
Over the last month I have kept an extremely busy schedule. It’s not that I haven’t had time to blog, its just that I haven’t done it. Half of every day I have sat at a desk with three 19-inch flat panel monitors so I have had access. I have spend most of my mornings working on Senior portraits at Lifetouch. It’s been kind of funny because these same kids I use to teach as seventh graders come in with much larger bodies but the same devil-may-care behavior. One of the most humorous exchanges was watching Grant squeezed into Travis jeans walking around trying to get pictures taken. It is nice to know these kids did not grow out of their good humor.
Working with NCPics.com has also kept me relatively busy. We have added product photography to our rapidly expanding areas of service and finding and ordering the equipment has been a challenge and joy. I realized quickly this type of business could keep us as busy as we want to be and that is both a good thing and bad. The potential to be overwhelmed is right there lurking behind the schedule. We will have to make sure we do not over commit in this venture. Alex and I spent the better part of a day cleaning and converting the old campaign office into a small office area for photography. We set up our product photography area and workspaces as well as began organizing the already growing collection of videos from our weddings. This has the potential to be fun and profitable as long as we do not lose the fun part.
Yesterday I spent a good part of the day taking Smith into Snow Hill to pick up some big black leather chairs from my storage unit. He purchased four of them. Half the stuff in his classroom once resided in my classroom – it is nice to know that these items I labored to add to my classroom will continue to benefit kids.
I have written a couple of grants this summer. Pamela and I wrote a $60,000 grant to DPI for Wayne County for Service Learning. Since the two of us have been awarded almost $25,000 over the last 4 years we felt it was time to begin going a little bigger. We should know the first of September if we receive this grant. I also wrote a $5,000 grant to Dollar General for the Media Center at CBA. I have long been interested in audio books that students can listen to on their Ipods. (While they skim the Cliff's Notes for many of you) By September 22nd, we will know if we received the grant.
Tomorrow morning I begin my back to school routine with my first Media Coordinator’s meeting. It is in Jacksonville at a brand new high school. It should be nice to see new facilities and to begin this new journey of learning.
Posted by hlperson at August 15, 2006 08:10 AM
Comments
Any chance of you helping the grant ignorant in writing a grant in your "spare" time sometime?
Posted by: Melissa at August 18, 2006 06:26 AM
Hey Mr.Person!What's up?I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed having you as my teacher in 7th grade.We did some cool mess, like them dolls and that huge cookie!!!Well I hope you have good years from now own and get better kids then our group...ha ha.I'll miss everybody like you, Mrs.Cox, and the coaches!...Bye
Posted by: Jessica Cole at August 19, 2006 01:35 AM
Mr. P, whats up...I saw you friday...awsome...mrs fields thinks u r kewl and stuff...i told her u were my fav teacher...she was like yeah i love mr person....lol... well maybe i will see u monday..ttyl. peace
Posted by: Fogleman at August 26, 2006 08:49 PM
hey jessica and mr person wats up. this is kyle johnson im in uhta right now and i miss the tar heels!!!!!!!! e-mail me back at brazilboy@comcast.net and tell wats goin on. later dogs.
Posted by: Kyle Johnson at August 30, 2006 02:13 PM
hey mr.person wats up
Posted by: said mahmoud at October 26, 2006 09:39 PM