Something of a moral dilemma
The college lecturers are on strike again tomorrow. Unlike last year's, this is part of a one-day national strike over pay. We had been scheduled for a whole day at Strawberry Hill tomorrow (environmental monitoring and history), so when I heard about the strike I made alternate plans, on the assumption that both our lecturers and those at St Margaret's College at Strawberry Hill will be out as well. . Lunch with a friend who lectures at Sussex, and had an unexpected day off, followed by a leisurely afternoon looking at William Morris's stuff in the V&A. I was rather looking forward to it, also to not nurturing my lurking chest infection on the freezing station platform there.
However, it emerged today that the anti-Snape, who we have for the first part of the day, is going down there anyway, and if he is going then the lecturer for history is going too, so everything is still on, and now I'm really not sure what to do. I don't think either of them are members of the unions involved.
Reasons for not going are:
My very strong disinclination to pass a picket line (virtuous)
Equal disinclination to make knee or chest situations worse (neutral)
Desire to stay in bed a bit late and have lunch with friends (non-virtuous)
We can't take any more environmental readings since the monitoring equipment has gone to India (neutral(ish))
The history lecture is on William Morris and Arts and Crafts, which I already know a lot about (neutral(ish))
Reasons for going are:
There may not be a picket line there (since I can't access the relevant part of their website)
This is the last time we will be there this term
There may be a man from the Sussex county museums authority who will talk about practical environmental monitoring
It may be our only realistic chance to talk with the a-S about placements, since he is such a slitherer-out of commitments.
If I go to lunch with the friends, I will be walking about just as much as at Strawberry
Really what's happening is that I'd made up my mind I wasn't going, and now don't want to go, but I can think of good arguments on both sides, and have argued myself into a pointless state of worry. The g-d is off at Brighton tonight and tomorrow with the boyfriend, secure in the knowledge that all their lecturers are properly on strike tomorrow, so I can't discuss it with her, and Lauren, who was in today, just didn't see what the problem was. Maybe I'm just overdramatising the whole thing, and I should just forget about it until tomorrow, then toss a coin.
However, it emerged today that the anti-Snape, who we have for the first part of the day, is going down there anyway, and if he is going then the lecturer for history is going too, so everything is still on, and now I'm really not sure what to do. I don't think either of them are members of the unions involved.
Reasons for not going are:
My very strong disinclination to pass a picket line (virtuous)
Equal disinclination to make knee or chest situations worse (neutral)
Desire to stay in bed a bit late and have lunch with friends (non-virtuous)
We can't take any more environmental readings since the monitoring equipment has gone to India (neutral(ish))
The history lecture is on William Morris and Arts and Crafts, which I already know a lot about (neutral(ish))
Reasons for going are:
There may not be a picket line there (since I can't access the relevant part of their website)
This is the last time we will be there this term
There may be a man from the Sussex county museums authority who will talk about practical environmental monitoring
It may be our only realistic chance to talk with the a-S about placements, since he is such a slitherer-out of commitments.
If I go to lunch with the friends, I will be walking about just as much as at Strawberry
Really what's happening is that I'd made up my mind I wasn't going, and now don't want to go, but I can think of good arguments on both sides, and have argued myself into a pointless state of worry. The g-d is off at Brighton tonight and tomorrow with the boyfriend, secure in the knowledge that all their lecturers are properly on strike tomorrow, so I can't discuss it with her, and Lauren, who was in today, just didn't see what the problem was. Maybe I'm just overdramatising the whole thing, and I should just forget about it until tomorrow, then toss a coin.