Decompressing from the PSO

I am back in the office this morning after taking a couple days off from the successful completion of last week's PSO. Boston has been baking under 90-plus degree weather and it's actually comforting to be back in the air-conditioned cave that is UMass Boston.

Despite the completion of activities from the PSO, there is still a lot of paperwork to process, evaluations to read and improvements to be documented down for next time. We've ran four PSOs in the last year, which has kept the process fresh in the Project's mind. Fortunately for our stress-levels, our next full-PSO won't happen until next summer; unfortunately, that leaves a lot of time to forget what we've learned unless we document it.

Even with the Lowell PSO over, there are a few more VISTAs that will be joining us in August. They will be attending the Corporation's PSO in Providence, RI, which is gentler since the Project won't be running it, but we'll still have to orient them to all the CTC VISTA specific info and procedures. All of the paperwork for those incoming VISTAs is due next week!

Ben Sheldon's Recent Field Reports

CTC VISTA LOLnptech

Looks like the CTC VISTA Project has made the big time: we got a CTC VISTA LOLnptech Cat. We is teh awsom. …read more

Thoughts on post-VISTA success

An interesting article just crossed my desk (well, email inbox) and I thought it would be good to share. It's about a VISTA member who served during the late 1960s and has gone on to be an immigration lawyer named one of the Best Lawyers in America for ten years running. …read more

Trying out Survey Services

A lot of the work at the CTC VISTA Project is getting information back from our VISTAs and their supervisors. I've been trying out two different Survey Services and I thought I would post some of my opinions on them.…read more

Hello September at Project HQ

Boston has just started getting chill again, which is unfortunate, since the weather in Boston is near-usually pretty darn cold. Of course, I don't know that about 9 hours out of my day because I'm in an air-conditioned, fluorescent lighted alter-space where the rules of nature our blocked out by cinderblock and drop ceilings. …read more