i unfortunately missed posting last week and will be posting a relatively short post this week (and yes, it's a couple days late...). things have been pretty hectic. i want to talk about two separate, unrelated things, neither of which are fully-formed ideas:

exams and presentations
this past monday, i had my first exam in my managing talent class. it was a group presentation and i was in a group of three. we all did a lot of meeting in advance of the exam and chatting/revising via email, so i think we felt pretty confident coming into the presentation. i also think we did relatively well, came off as confident and organized, and made good, thoughtful points. i actually really enjoyed doing the presentation and working in the group and i hope to have more opportunities to do this kind of thing in the future.

writing against my politics
for work this week, i have to write a review of a research article that makes a few points i deeply disagree with. just reading the article kind of grates on my political value system and i'm having a hard time thinking of how to write the review without pointing out the inherent flaws in the authors' frameworks. part of my job in this case though is to let it go and write through it, and i'm excited and nervous and annoyed at the challenge.

okay, more later. what an exciting couple of weeks.