My Unhorrible Week in Review!

This week has been retardly awesome! Amazing what a change of scenery can do for the spirit! :-) After the fiasco with my client last week at work, my company moved me from the hell that is IAIP and moved me to a project closer to home and with a strategic outreach/change management team! I'm now supporting the Department of Defense change communication effort. This is my first non-DHS project since I've been consulting and there's so much to learn about the agency. I've also been the "communications" person for a couple of years now and I feel like my professional growth has been stunted because I haven't been learning from people. Everyone on my team is so positive and I'm astounded at how infectious positive attitudes are. I've not felt this good and had this much enegery on a Friday in a long time!

I've also had some fun times this with my crazy friend from work, Jenna! Monday we went shopping at Leesburg Outlets, I swear it's the closest to God I've ever been! Bombay, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Gap, Banana Republic -- you name it, it was there and I was there shoppng like the noveau riche or something! She and I also hung out last night with a dinner, wine and a Sex and the City marathon; she's almost as obsessed with the show as I am so we had a ball!... we knew we were finished when we decided to dance in the rain in the Safeway parking lot! My hair texture was not all that excited about the latter activity!

I had my Ruhi class and it's really great, but I learned something that really concerned me... One of the things I find the most beautiful about the Baha'i Faith is the belief that both men and women are equal - two wings of a bird. But, I found out that there are no women on the Universal House of Justice, the supreme legislative organ of the Baha'i administrative order. I can't understand how men and women can be equal and yet there are leadership levels in the Faith that are unattainable by women. It reminds me of the politician who represents underserved areas, works for the plight of minorities, campaigns for more funding and yet refuses to let their kids attend schools in those poor areas. It's not too far from the seperate, but equal" theory decided by the Plessy vs. Fergusion case. I'm still trying to rationalize it but perhaps it's something I'm not to understand.