Re: Thanks

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

I'd just like to thank those of you on this list who replied to a posting 
of mine last spring asking for advice about organizing departmental 
retreats.  We in the Division of Rhetoric and Composition are just back 
from the retreat I was planning last spring, and it went very well.  We 
said some things that needed to be said, made some plans that needed to 
be made, and took the time to enjoy each other's company, something that 
we as very busy people needed to do. As I'm analyzing why things went so 
well, I can see that it's in part because I followed your advice: we got 
far enough away so that people weren't distracted by regular work, we 
went someplace pleasant, we took a day and a half, and the schedule was 
organized but it left time for us to talk with each other informally.  

Of course I can now claim the distinction of lugging a bunch of 
workaholics into the country to discuss workload issuses, inter alia, and 
finding that we propose to address the situation by forming six committees 
;-) 

Sara Kimball
UT Austin