I survived the first 30 days on the new job. So far I’ve already:

• Attended at least 1,000 meetings. OK, maybe not quite that many. But it feels like it.
• Been taken out to lunch at least a dozen times. OK, maybe not quite that many. But I wish it were. There’s lots of great restaurants around here.
• Read and processed at least 1,000 emails. Yes, I’m sure about that many.
• Developed a financial stewardship fiscal-year-end campaign theme and designed a series of postcards. The art is appearing in mailboxes, the bulletin, newsletters, campus message boards and slides.
• Designed a tri-fold brochure to accompany a new 5-part message series on “relational evangelism.” The cool thing is that the piece will live on long after the series is over as a practical evangelism tool.
• Started a Communications Team collaboration on branding a three-year church-wide strategic initiative plan … yeah, uhm, I’m not sure what that means either. But we’re getting there.
• Assigned to assist in the content management system. Wow. Now that’s a big elephant to chew.
• Learned how to manipulate the website. Dangerous.
• We’re also slated to begin a number of other projects. And that number would be 140 new projects in 2009 so far and counting.

Good times. How are things in your world?