Communities and Mini-Spikes

Well, it's happened.  11 folks who have chosen to commit to a year of national and community service have been designated to my team.  My role as team leader has gone into full effect this week, and Raven 4 has officially gotten its wings and taken off.  I've got a team now; time to get things done.

And oh, what a team have I got.  I won't go into much detail considering this is a public blog, but I'm happy to say I've quite a dynamic flock of individuals, and most importantly, a group that's as ready as I am for the shindig ahead of us.  In spite of the lack of sleep and long hours, there is something to be said about such a high level of motivation and abundance of positive attitudes from these CMs that can make every hour worthwhile.

As for the administrative side of things, it's still as busy as ever.  This week involved some budgeting for our first mini-project next week, the coordination of food shopping for 80 people, plenty of time on-duty making rounds, enforcing policies, saving lives when I can, driving driving driving, planning/running and postponing meetings, adding these postponed meetings to my ever growing to-do list, assigning specialty roles to the team, and yes, already writing up folks and putting together incident reports.  Typically, this all happens in one day; and throughout that time, our CMs give us many reasons to keep it that way.

But it's gotta be said that our Unit is an incredible community of people who have already inspired me and reminded me why I am here.  Everyone's ready for spike, to get going on projects, and to work hard in general.

Our first mini-project happens next week, a 3-day project with the team.  It will be nice to see our team out in the field.  Here we go!