5-17-11

I split half my time working on my internship paperwork and the other half working on NRCS things. Today I worked a bit more on adding more documentation to my application and developed an outline for each of the sections in the application. This is information I will use in the 5 page description of my plan and as a way to guide people on what they are seeing. A lot of the information in the plan is confusing and very technical, and one of the complaints I heard at the midterm seminar on a previous plan was that a lot of it was confusing. So I plan on explaining the six different sections of the folder and why each is necessary to the Farm Bill application. I then helped with some administrative things that have a tendency to build up in the office. Since Angie is still not full time and still has some adjustments to make as far as running smoothly with Rich, there is a tendency of things falling by the wayside. Therefore making interns helpful to pick up the slack. Today I organized envelopes to mail out to people we had met with and had promised to send them things. There were follow ups with people we had met with weeks before and probably had been expecting some follow up for a while now. Then I assisted with reviewing HEL determinations from all clients from 2008-2011. It was tedious but interesting to get a snapshot of all the different applications and clients the NRCS has worked with in the past 3 years.