By Scott Westerman
The Week: By The Numbers
427 – Emails answered.
76 – Business cards distributed.
54 – Twitter posts
21 – Hours awake on Friday, starting at 4am in DC and ending at almost 1AM after celebrating my escape from the snowstorm with Mark and Martha Bashore and Kip and Jane Bohne.
20 – Superb MSUAA team members who supported my efforts this week.
19 – The number of times I ran up and down stairs at the Brez during the Northwestern game.
18 – New MSU Facebook friends.
17 – Email exchanges with local alumni club presidents.
13 – New LinkedIn connections.
12 – “aerobic” walks across campus (no frostbyte).
10 – The number of kids I had a meal with in the dorms this week.
9 – The number of shirts I brought with me from New Mexico. Enough to get through almost two weeks without going to Baryames.
8 – Heathcote/Izzo baseball caps purchased (and given away) from the Kellogg Center gift shop.
7 – New friends I made during my visit to the MSU Black Student Alumni board meeting on Saturday.
6 – Skype video calls with my beloved wife. One more week till we’re together again.
5 – New videos posted to our MichiganStateAlumni YouTube channel.
4 – Hours delay in leaving Washington due to a non-functional back up horizontal gyro display on Delta’s jet. Reminder to self: Always fly Southwest!
3 – Phone conversations with MSUAA Members getting feedback and brainstorming.
2 – Lunches at the State Room.
1 of the best altar egos I’ve ever had: My assistant Jennifer Decker.
Thanks to everyone who joined us in DC for Sec. Spencer Abraham’s Grand Award presentation. We’re hoping to entice Julie, Betsy and Spencer II to come to MSU. Great work by Cheryl Denison trail-bossing the event.
Thanks to: MSU Alum Bob Benenson for brainstorming at dinner with me in Washington, to Rich Lewis for welcoming me to the MSUBSA family, to MSU Trustees Colleen McNamara and Melanie Foster for brainstorming the Greening of Detroit with me this week, to Merri Jo Bales for helping me strategize our leadership retreat, to Peter DeLong for trail-bossing the ring project, to the EatAtState.com team for feeding me and to my wonderful wife for trail-bossing our move and being patient while I express my Spartan passions.
We hit the ground running again in the morning at the best job I’ve ever had.
