Making Connections

As I've mentioned before, one of my goals this year was to get more involved, including joining professional organizations. I started attending monthly BYU Management Society meetings in January. The meetings have been enjoyable - everyone is friendly and the speakers are interesting, but I've honestly felt a little out of place. Almost everyone else who attends the meetings are men in suits, most of which are old enough to be my dad or grandpa... not that that's a bad thing, I just didn't feel like I quite fit in. I was excited at one of the luncheons earlier this year to meet Melanie. I guess we technically met (although I didn't remember it!) in 1998 at BYU where Melanie helped a girl who lived in my dorm hall with her homework once a week (or something like that). It has been fun to get acquainted with Melanie over the past few months, and we've been able to get together a couple times to just hang out. She is really cool and we get along well. I've wondered if maybe I joined BYU Management Society just so I could meet Melanie :-)

Here we are one evening last month enjoying dinner at Good Thyme Grille, a small restaurant where my friend Stephanie works.