1. It isn't descriptive and doesn't tell them anything about my project at all. They know what I'm building, and if they're asking, then I should assume they are genuinely interested. Morgan --- DON'T BE LAZY. ANSWER THE QUESTION.
2. Everyone is busy, including my coworkers, or more accurately especially my coworkers. We're all busy. It is the nature of work. So here we get back to giving a lazy answer, but giving this answer also implies that work isn't normally busy. Worse, it might imply my coworkers aren't busy because they're not on this project since obviously my project is the only crazy busy one. Silly, not busy people.
3. Finally, and this gets back to the "Busy is a Sickness" article from the Huffington Post, giving this answer with a heavy sigh is incredibly negative. I don't want to suggest that we should pressure ourselves to always be upbeat, because that isn't realistic. But what kind of message does it send to my coworkers and my supervisors if I always seem degraded and down by the busyness of my project? It doesn't suggest that I have a shiny "I'm awesome because look how busy I always am" badge on my chest. It suggests that I have too much going on or I'm unhappy with my workload. If that's the case, then it's a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Otherwise, I should give an honest answer about a current challenge or success and move along.
Anyway, things have been busy with my project....in a great way!
We are debuting SCHPR at the SC State Historic Preservation Conference in two weeks! Several months ago, I made myself a series of weekly deliverable goals for myself and my supervisors so that we could make sure SCHPR was fine-tuned by the time of the soft launch. That's not to say that there won't be issues that arise after the general public starts using it. But we'd like to take care of as many foreseeable problems ahead of time as possible. So, we're coming to the completion of my nine-week list of goals. This weekly list of goals has been invaluable in helping to keep the project on track for launch!
As soon as our URL is instituted, I'll share it far and wide so that I can get some feedback from everyone!