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Today, I kind of realized that my life is going to be a scheduling nightmare this year.
I have to put in 10 hours/week for English Peer Advising, somewhere around 6 hours/week for Campus Unions, and I still have a huge amount of work to do for SPAC. It's a little crazy. I can definitely do all the work, but it's hard to fit in all that with classes during business hours in reasonable chunks of time. I'm definitely going to be running all over campus from 9-5 every day. And then bring home some work, I suppose.
Or use my MU code and elevator key to get into my MU office after hours! Yesss.
I met with Lynda Jones today, who's the English Department Staff Advisor. She's like the nicest lady ever, so that's awesome. I can tell that she's a little scared that I'm a fuck up. I was spacey today since I was thinking about my other two jobs, so I wasn't thinking right. Plus, I really don't care too much about the programs I'm supposed to put on for English majors, because really, who goes to those? But I'm so good at event planning now, I can do those in like five minutes! Just kidding.
Lynda said that I get to sit in on Departmental Committee meetings this year and help the Undergraduate Chair (Fran Dolan, the coolest professor ever) and the Department Chair develop and modify the English major! That's sooo cool! I hope they'll let me talk.
Um so I rode the bus home the other day, it was like really fun. I love the bus!
After orientation with Lynda, I went to my office and I worked a lot. I'm so impressed with myself, it's kind of ridic. Like, I call so many people every day and leave professional messages (sometimes). My office phone doesn't work though, so I have to give my cell phone number to like every department on campus. So I changed my voice mail to say something like "You've reached Chris McDonald, Event Coordinator for the Student Programs & Activities Center and the Program Coordinator for Campus Unions Programs." I don't know what it says, you should call me.
I'm in a weird mood right now. I think it's because I no longer have to/get to socialize with people every day. I get enough social interaction because I talk to a lot of people at work, but they are more professional conversations. It's kind of hard to make friends with the people I work with because we're all really busy. So we don't make jokes. Is this what the real world is like? No jokes? That's rough. Still, I am sure to wear my funny t-shirts to work every day. No one ever comments though. Maybe I'm inappropriate.
So I had to schedule meetings with my boss today for Fall quarter, and guess what, I have to meet with her like 14092 times between now and October 18. It's more like every other day, until the week before, and then it's every day. And if you know Rosanne, you know that that might kill me. I actually thought I might yell at her the other day just because I got sick of her talking. This MUST be the real world!
Just kidding. Because whenever I think that, I realize that all the professional staff in SPAC went to grad school and now they are event planning, which is basically what I'm doing and I haven't even graduated yet! But I have stepped up from the RA job, because Rosanne told me to make some posters for something, and I assigned that task to my assistant. I win!
I have to put in 10 hours/week for English Peer Advising, somewhere around 6 hours/week for Campus Unions, and I still have a huge amount of work to do for SPAC. It's a little crazy. I can definitely do all the work, but it's hard to fit in all that with classes during business hours in reasonable chunks of time. I'm definitely going to be running all over campus from 9-5 every day. And then bring home some work, I suppose.
Or use my MU code and elevator key to get into my MU office after hours! Yesss.
I met with Lynda Jones today, who's the English Department Staff Advisor. She's like the nicest lady ever, so that's awesome. I can tell that she's a little scared that I'm a fuck up. I was spacey today since I was thinking about my other two jobs, so I wasn't thinking right. Plus, I really don't care too much about the programs I'm supposed to put on for English majors, because really, who goes to those? But I'm so good at event planning now, I can do those in like five minutes! Just kidding.
Lynda said that I get to sit in on Departmental Committee meetings this year and help the Undergraduate Chair (Fran Dolan, the coolest professor ever) and the Department Chair develop and modify the English major! That's sooo cool! I hope they'll let me talk.
Um so I rode the bus home the other day, it was like really fun. I love the bus!
After orientation with Lynda, I went to my office and I worked a lot. I'm so impressed with myself, it's kind of ridic. Like, I call so many people every day and leave professional messages (sometimes). My office phone doesn't work though, so I have to give my cell phone number to like every department on campus. So I changed my voice mail to say something like "You've reached Chris McDonald, Event Coordinator for the Student Programs & Activities Center and the Program Coordinator for Campus Unions Programs." I don't know what it says, you should call me.
I'm in a weird mood right now. I think it's because I no longer have to/get to socialize with people every day. I get enough social interaction because I talk to a lot of people at work, but they are more professional conversations. It's kind of hard to make friends with the people I work with because we're all really busy. So we don't make jokes. Is this what the real world is like? No jokes? That's rough. Still, I am sure to wear my funny t-shirts to work every day. No one ever comments though. Maybe I'm inappropriate.
So I had to schedule meetings with my boss today for Fall quarter, and guess what, I have to meet with her like 14092 times between now and October 18. It's more like every other day, until the week before, and then it's every day. And if you know Rosanne, you know that that might kill me. I actually thought I might yell at her the other day just because I got sick of her talking. This MUST be the real world!
Just kidding. Because whenever I think that, I realize that all the professional staff in SPAC went to grad school and now they are event planning, which is basically what I'm doing and I haven't even graduated yet! But I have stepped up from the RA job, because Rosanne told me to make some posters for something, and I assigned that task to my assistant. I win!