1.22.2008

the one with the dividing line

 Several of us were out of town for the weekend, but the people that were here did an amazing job at the site- good job guys.

Despite the progressing form work, i still seem to be lacking confidence in the project. There is just something about it that is really bothering me, problem is- i cant seem to figure out what "IT" is. Is did a couple of interviews last week for the papers, and I started to feel awkward about it. I feel like we are in some way exploiting the family, even though- we have asked them if we could tell their story. On the one hand we are doing all this to raise public awareness of substandard housing in Ruston, but on the other hand I don't want the Evans kiddos going to school and their classmates being like "hey, we saw in the paper that your house if full of mold"- that would be uncomfortable for them.... which is not something I want to happen. Perhaps I will try and think of a better way to do handle that aspect of the PR work. 

I really like doing the PR stuff, but it is tough, because so much of it has to be done during the day time- which is when everyone else is out on the site working. I want to be out working, because i want to see and learn what is going on (after all is was one of my goals for the year), but i also, want to and have to be here in studio working to do things like finding power poles and doing interviews (things which cant be handled at 10 pm),,, yadda yadda ya- its tough. I need to figure out the dividing line somewhere in all that... oh and plus, find a  way not to fail all my other classes!



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