clubs.

This will be the "Let's think things through" post of the week. Let's talk about the club levels of donation - Amicus Pepperdine; Well, sure, it means "friend of the Court," very classy. Management Partners; for the School of Business and Management, very fitting, brings a sense of prestige to mind. Colleagues; Ok, a little general, but still, not extremely off-the-wall.

And then we have the Seaver Century Club. Because when I give a $100 gift to Pepperdine, I don't want to be reminded of the scenic beauty of Malibu, the broad liberal arts education or the sense of ethics I was instilled with - I want to be reminded of a bunch of guys gathered around a table doing 100 shots of beer in one night. Woo hoo! SPRING BREAK!!! Yeah! Nothing says class like the mental image of a bunch of shirtless guys yelling "Sigma Chi Do or Die!" from their apartment window at every car that passes.

The thing that takes this across the border of absurdity into what I like to call just plain foolish is the addition of the Seaver Parent Century Club. Nothing like imagining said frat guys doing body shots off your mom, or Dad puking in the bushes. Ugh...I just gave myself the heebie-jeebies.

Let's revisit this at the next Advancement retreat...please?

I second the motion.

So I was just sitting here clearing off my desk (thank God Janet's back, now my workload is significantly lessened - or at least there's someone else they can blame slow productivity on) and I was thinking about how unfulfilling my job is. A great mind once told me, "You need to be proactive and do things to make your life better." So I was brainstorming and thinking what a great idea some sort of networking website would be - networking as in like business professional networking, not all the smoke and mirrors crap they do downstairs to make my intarweb work from day to day. (Although I greatly admire the IT dept and everything they do to hide my continual abuse of the Pepperdine network policy.)

So I think I'm going to start dedicating my time to setting up some sort of infrastructure to creating this for advancement professionals for universities in the Southern Californian area -like my Patton-like marketing professor always said, "focus on a specific market share and stick with it."

If you're interested in getting plugged into said network, let me know and I'll get you started. (Sorry if that sounded extremely sales-ish.)

In the beginning...

This is the first official post of my blog. Probably this will get lost in years' time, but more than likely I'll never end up doing anything with this thing. Honestly, folks, I should just be writing a nice little website for myself and adding stuff to it, like my primary web design project. However, that turned out to be little more than a website full of unsavory pictures of my DC internship and what a bored, jobless college grad can do w/ a little time and a few pirated software packages (thank you, Macromedia and Adobe - you nurtured my creative habits - side rant, why the heck is development software so expensive? I digress.)

My cycle of creativity, well-writtenness, etc. is notable during the beginning of my day at work (go figure) and slides as the day goes on. (Apparently there's a slight advance during the wee hours, such as now when I should be in bed dreaming of sugar plums, as the feller said.) Hopefully, I'm able to dredge up a little more tomorrow. I'm not going to use this thing as my diary, cuz that's just stupid. I'm just going to be overly pretentious and put up my meaningless rants and quibbles. Yeah, I said quibbles. I also said well-writtenness. Bet you didn't catch that one, huh, funny man? K, maybe you did.