{"id":5748,"date":"2015-03-10T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:24:49","slug":"march-is-the-new-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/march-is-the-new-january\/","title":{"rendered":"March Is the New January?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing like finally feeling you’re ready to start the new year 68 days after it begins! <\/p>\n

Well, I knew when I took my new job<\/a> that I would be in for a really steep learning curve, and I could see see right away how much time it was taking<\/a> just to keep relatively on top of all the new things. <\/p>\n

What I didn’t really expect was how long things would stay that way: <\/p>\n

\"Only<\/a>

Only one post in November!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Also<\/a>

Also only one post in February!<\/p><\/div>\n

Between keeping my head above water at work and doing what I needed to to keep the Bells<\/a> afloat, there hasn’t been much time for anything else: professional reading, dreaming up new storytimes, watching my blog feeds, or blogging much at all. <\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong–I’m not beating myself up for not being more active–that’s just how things shook out. <\/p>\n

But I’ve missed being here so much! <\/p>\n

And while everyone kept telling me, “It’s going to get better! Hang in there!” and I pretty much sort of believed them, as of the end of February I have turned two serious corners and now I really do. Whew. <\/p>\n

For one thing, I have wrapped up my active leadership of the Bell Awards and have handed things off to two amazingly smart, thoughtful, energetic new co-chairs, and for the second thing, for the first time since we launched the team I have a full staff AND I made it through my first round of year-end performance reviews! <\/p>\n

My daily work is already starting to fit back in that 8-hour-a-day box that it used to, and for the first time in I-actually-don’t-know-how-many-years, I am not in charge of a professional committee. <\/p>\n

\"Thank<\/a>

Thank you, Anna, for my new sticky notes!<\/p><\/div>\n

I still don’t know what a regular blogging schedule will look like, and I don’t know exactly what I’ll be writing about (some of the same stuff, to be sure! But also new things as a result of my new scope), but I can’t wait to figure it out. <\/p>\n

Thanks for sticking around! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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