Day One: The Meeting
on From Banglatown to Bangladesh (Bangladesh), 14/Jun/2010 06:09, 34 days ago
My month of positivity actually starts yesterday. On 13 June, there was a meeting. I had spent weeks trying to speak to said colleague, and received seemingly endless promises of‘tomorrow, we will talk’. And yesterday, we did. We didn’t speak for that long, an hour or so at the most. But we didn’t need to do more.Apparently, the guidelines I had developed, identifying processes and good practices from a previous piece of work, are actually useful. Since I spend more time than I would like to questioning the impacts of the work I do, this is very reassuring. It was great to hear how my colleague has started thinking about ways of applying some of the principles and approaches we have been discussing to other aspects of his work too.We also started talking about our next task, which again has been subject to delay after delay. But now I have enough information to get started, and we plan to talk in more detail next week. When that next meeting actually happens however, is beside the point right now. The point is, one piece of work has been completed, and the next is beginning. This meeting eventually happened, and the next one will too.This is progress, and progress is definitely something to be happy about.