Day 58 "In the trenches" (positive-tally edition)

Some days feel more overall-positive than others. Gonna give myself a break from a lengthy post, because of the weekend's demands:

Saturday:

• fund-raise for local public-radio station (live-talk, play CDs, pitch like a cracked-out Yankee madman on-air);
• haircut
• brainstorm with colleague from Sociology on a project for Transnationalism lecture series
• teach Slow Session (for learning Irish-music players)
• play a gig for art-department colleagues

Sunday

• write and record radio show
• finish encyclopedia articles
• lead Celtic Ensemble at fund-raising event for School of Music

But, today was a good day. Here's the tally:

• Master's conducting student oral exit exam: passed
• Undergrad history review Exam #2: administered, almost all passed
• Car fixed
• undergrad Honors advisee's research presentation: successful
  
• various bureaucratic problems: solved
• Doctoral student's dissertation Topic Proposal defense: passed
• pub session: quiet and thoughtful; people actually listening

It's a nice day when you feel like the overall ratio of helping people versus messing-up is in the high positives.

More tomorrow. Will be live photo-blogging at least a part of the fundraising.