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Nov. 12th, 2002 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleinWeather is wierd today. Hot in one place and cool in another. Don't quite understand it
There was a picture of Kuwait desert sunset on cnn just now.
It was a busy busy day at work. i started about 8:20 with the Faculty Secretary, finished with him at 10:20 and went straight to a staff meeting that lasted until 12:30. Then i had to finish up the Course thing so i can give it to C to look at one more time before i send it to the Dean.
i didn't even get a chance to finish the first page of the Field of Study reports for class. They are due next monday back to the students. My plan was to do 3 or 4 a day so i didn't have a pile all at once and burn out and not do justice to them. Although i have a sneaking suspiscion justice would be to bury some of them in a shallow grave in the desert. Now tomorrow i will have to do 8, 6 at minimum. It's possible i can do that. i don't have anything else on my calendar. Although the teachers are all getting antsy about what courses they will be teaching next semester.
The staff meeting went ok, not excellently but ok. i was pressured to have the meeting this week. i was planning on one next week or soon after, i've been waiting for some information i knew the teachers all wanted. So the meeting today was a lot of what ifs, and how abouts and did you think abouts. i told them about a gazillion times that as soon as i get an official word, i'll tell them. i'm not trying to hide anything. But i can't take rumor as fact and pass that on. Dumb bunnies. Finally i just told them i can't work on what ifs. i can only work on what i know as fact. Even then the facts may change and then i'll have to change.
i suppose i could be more unilateral in my decisions. It would make everything a whole lot simpler if i didn't take their thoughts and feelings into consideration but that is not the way i learned how to be an administrator. On the other hand, if i did that, i wouldn't get angry when they take what i do for them for granted. If i didn't try to take their ideas into consideration then perhaps i wouldn't be so bothered by the whiney woman. But that is not me.
i should have been a hermit or a cloistered nun. i've said it before and i'll say it again. There are times when i am just sick and fuckingtired of feeling like i have to be nice. I would like to just tell them all to go to hell, Master too sometimes, but what would that get me? More grief and who needs that?
There was a picture of Kuwait desert sunset on cnn just now.
It was a busy busy day at work. i started about 8:20 with the Faculty Secretary, finished with him at 10:20 and went straight to a staff meeting that lasted until 12:30. Then i had to finish up the Course thing so i can give it to C to look at one more time before i send it to the Dean.
i didn't even get a chance to finish the first page of the Field of Study reports for class. They are due next monday back to the students. My plan was to do 3 or 4 a day so i didn't have a pile all at once and burn out and not do justice to them. Although i have a sneaking suspiscion justice would be to bury some of them in a shallow grave in the desert. Now tomorrow i will have to do 8, 6 at minimum. It's possible i can do that. i don't have anything else on my calendar. Although the teachers are all getting antsy about what courses they will be teaching next semester.
The staff meeting went ok, not excellently but ok. i was pressured to have the meeting this week. i was planning on one next week or soon after, i've been waiting for some information i knew the teachers all wanted. So the meeting today was a lot of what ifs, and how abouts and did you think abouts. i told them about a gazillion times that as soon as i get an official word, i'll tell them. i'm not trying to hide anything. But i can't take rumor as fact and pass that on. Dumb bunnies. Finally i just told them i can't work on what ifs. i can only work on what i know as fact. Even then the facts may change and then i'll have to change.
i suppose i could be more unilateral in my decisions. It would make everything a whole lot simpler if i didn't take their thoughts and feelings into consideration but that is not the way i learned how to be an administrator. On the other hand, if i did that, i wouldn't get angry when they take what i do for them for granted. If i didn't try to take their ideas into consideration then perhaps i wouldn't be so bothered by the whiney woman. But that is not me.
i should have been a hermit or a cloistered nun. i've said it before and i'll say it again. There are times when i am just sick and fuckingtired of feeling like i have to be nice. I would like to just tell them all to go to hell, Master too sometimes, but what would that get me? More grief and who needs that?
