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Nov. 16th, 2002 06:57 pmMany things happened today.
1. The dog refused to go for a run with me this morning. i wonder if he is over trained. i wonder if he has sore muscles or if the muscles just told him enough was enough, it was time to rest. We've been taking him out to the desert every day and twice on weekends for over a month now. And mornings have been a 5 mile trot with me on the bike. Maybe he just needs a day or two of muscle rest. The problem with the rest is that if we don't take him out to run, he is so full of energy he drives me up the wall.
2. Master is having contract/job problems. The company he works for is such a fly-by-night production. He refuses to sign His new contract because of salary questions. He went to talk to the what-ever in charge of the contract and was told that He had to talk to someone else who is conveniently out of the country until next week. Master said He would wait. The upshot of all this is, when He left the base today, He was seriously thinking of packing up and leaving this country. And what am i to do?
3. It is Ramadan. The Dean has stopped smoking from sunup to sunset, which makes him a very very moody, cranky man. Some students complained to him about one of the teachers in the unit. The Dean called the Vice Dean Academic Affairs and gave him a truck load of shit about how this teacher should not have been given this class and he said that at the beginning of the semester and now she's back to her old tricks and he wants her out of that class right now and yada yada yada yada yada.....
Then the VDAA called me and gave me an earful. Well, the problem is, said teacher has cleaned up her act from last year. i don't much like her, i wouldn't socialize with her, but to be fair, she is doing a good job this semester. VDAA wanted to know where we could put her. i said, in the class she is teaching. i told him she is doing fine, she's teaching an oversized class and i have invigilated all of her quizzes and edited the midsemester exam she gave. They are all good. They test the skills taught in the course. She doesn't test things she doesn't teach. And if the Dean was going to take the word of some whiney assed students over mine, there was going to be a problem. i will not tell her she has to take another class. We don't have any extra teachers to trade her with. And, besides, i won't do it. If the Dean wants her out, he will have to do it himself. And if he doesn't let me run the unit in the way i think best, i will walk out of that office and go back to teaching, the thing i love best.
The VDAA advised me to think about it and try to help him come to a solution. He doesn't want to lose me. And as a friend and colleague he'd like to be able to work out some equitable solution or compromise. i am going to write a memo to the Dean to try to show him the error of his ways. i want to tell him he is being very unfair and letting his bias from last year color his vision this year. i want to tell him he shouldn't be making executive decisions when he is in nicotine withdrawal. i want to tell him to let her be until the end of the semester and it will all go away with the laundry. She has documented everything she has done. i will not let her be railroaded just because the Dean isn't getting any (nicotine or sex).
i don't think the VDAA expected me to respond quite that way. He knows i don't much care for the woman, but damn, i have to be fair. i said i will walk out, and if push comes to shove, i will.
1. The dog refused to go for a run with me this morning. i wonder if he is over trained. i wonder if he has sore muscles or if the muscles just told him enough was enough, it was time to rest. We've been taking him out to the desert every day and twice on weekends for over a month now. And mornings have been a 5 mile trot with me on the bike. Maybe he just needs a day or two of muscle rest. The problem with the rest is that if we don't take him out to run, he is so full of energy he drives me up the wall.
2. Master is having contract/job problems. The company he works for is such a fly-by-night production. He refuses to sign His new contract because of salary questions. He went to talk to the what-ever in charge of the contract and was told that He had to talk to someone else who is conveniently out of the country until next week. Master said He would wait. The upshot of all this is, when He left the base today, He was seriously thinking of packing up and leaving this country. And what am i to do?
3. It is Ramadan. The Dean has stopped smoking from sunup to sunset, which makes him a very very moody, cranky man. Some students complained to him about one of the teachers in the unit. The Dean called the Vice Dean Academic Affairs and gave him a truck load of shit about how this teacher should not have been given this class and he said that at the beginning of the semester and now she's back to her old tricks and he wants her out of that class right now and yada yada yada yada yada.....
Then the VDAA called me and gave me an earful. Well, the problem is, said teacher has cleaned up her act from last year. i don't much like her, i wouldn't socialize with her, but to be fair, she is doing a good job this semester. VDAA wanted to know where we could put her. i said, in the class she is teaching. i told him she is doing fine, she's teaching an oversized class and i have invigilated all of her quizzes and edited the midsemester exam she gave. They are all good. They test the skills taught in the course. She doesn't test things she doesn't teach. And if the Dean was going to take the word of some whiney assed students over mine, there was going to be a problem. i will not tell her she has to take another class. We don't have any extra teachers to trade her with. And, besides, i won't do it. If the Dean wants her out, he will have to do it himself. And if he doesn't let me run the unit in the way i think best, i will walk out of that office and go back to teaching, the thing i love best.
The VDAA advised me to think about it and try to help him come to a solution. He doesn't want to lose me. And as a friend and colleague he'd like to be able to work out some equitable solution or compromise. i am going to write a memo to the Dean to try to show him the error of his ways. i want to tell him he is being very unfair and letting his bias from last year color his vision this year. i want to tell him he shouldn't be making executive decisions when he is in nicotine withdrawal. i want to tell him to let her be until the end of the semester and it will all go away with the laundry. She has documented everything she has done. i will not let her be railroaded just because the Dean isn't getting any (nicotine or sex).
i don't think the VDAA expected me to respond quite that way. He knows i don't much care for the woman, but damn, i have to be fair. i said i will walk out, and if push comes to shove, i will.
