I can't even tell you how weird the bureaucracy (okay and that literally took eight goes to spell correctly) at the University is. This week alone, I've been running all around the place doing finance things, and insurance things, and PHOTOCOPIER things and just CRAZY shit related to the fact that the University is now run by a whole new Vice ( Read more... )

*falls on Friday evening, hugs it to chest, molests it ( Read more... )

This is about the fourth time I've opened this window in the last week alone, and not posting, but wanting to, you know, reach out into the world and so on. It's not that there's nothing happening, there's TOO MUCH happening. It's like one of those dreams when you want to yell and yell and all that comes out is a tiny breathless squeak ( Read more... )

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Today I heard that as part of our University's restructuring process, my entire department - Theatre and Film Studies - may be disestablished (read - CUT) as of January 1 next year. The rationale given for this is dual: that the department is not profitable, and that Theatre Studies and Film Studies are not "core disciplines" (whatever that is ( Read more... )