Snapshot of today...

I wrote and mailed thank you letters to two donors today. I really believe in getting these out within a day or two we receive a check and in handling this personally. This was my first priority for today. As an aside, our donor support has been so encouraging over the past 4 months and is at the highest its been in our 30-year history.

I then turned to a conference call with Allegheny Land Trust in which we discussed some ways we'll be working to educate listeners about greenspace in Allegheny County.

Then, it was on to finalizing a mid-term progress report on our after school work with Pittsburgh Public Schools. I don 't think anyone really likes writing progress reports but they bring to mind one of my favorite sayings -- "I hate to write, but love to have written." While writing the report took a long time (we also prepared an accompanying set of CDs), it was satisfying to see how much we accomplished in 4 months. Another saying I like came to mind as well: "I'm sorry this letter is son long: I didn't have time to write a short one!" (Mark Twain). We managed to capture our work in three succinct pages but, as you may know if you write for a living, succinct writing is time consuming.

Along the way I took a few breaks to finalize a workshop with Northview Heights Elementary for tomorrow, arrange audio services for a meeting next week, interview a potential addition to our staff, be interviewed by an Allegheny College student for a radio drama project she's involved with, complete paperwork for our Washington & Jefferson intern, discuss a few operational issues with museum staffers, update Rounder Records on our growth and put the finishing touches on this week's edition of "Jazzin' Around", a separate public radio program we produce for Pittsburgh jazz radio legend David Jaye.

Believe it or not, I did leave a few things out but -- if I had to account for my time -- I think I hit the high points...although I did order toner for one of the printers, update our playlist...well, *most* of the high points ;).

BTW, the answer to the Haiku I posted yesterday is "hogan".