I was walking across campus on my way back from class yesterday and ran into a colleague of mine whom I hadn't seen for a while. She told me she was heading to her "farewell lunch" because she'd been laid off.

She's a lovely person and her work is absolutely stellar. I am bummed beyond words, really.

I've agreed to write a review of a proposal and sample chapters of a new writing text (for money). The deadline is the 19th, which I can easily meet, and, in fact, I'd been planning to work on it this weekend. Today, there's an email from the publisher offering me $100 bonus if I get it in by Monday at 8:00 am.

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I had my first real administrative success at work today. When I arrived back at work, there had just been a lot of last minute changes made to several people's schedules and one or two of them were very unhappy about it. One person's concerns were sufficiently serious that it became apparent that I would need to fix it, but changing one schedule ( Read more... )

As if I needed it, I have been reminded several times this week that I'm not as young as I once was. This has been a very busy week socially, and now of course I'm too tired to sleep, so it's 5 AM and I'm awake writing in my journal ( Read more... )

Oh my, what a busy week! But the first week of term is always so busy that you think you're going to die, then you remember that the first week of term is always like that... and you're not going to die and you get through. On the whole, I have felt really GOOD all week - it's a little bittersweet but true that this is the first time in several ( Read more... )

It was a busy week; I had two DE workshops, and as a result this was the most active I've been in my job for quite a while. The workshops went well, I think, despite the ongoing frustration that the IT people at my college are not keeping up with the needs or wishes of their clients. It's difficult to spend nearly 2 hours selling the benefits of ( Read more... )

For those who I know are anxiously awaiting news... I've finished grading my 150s and have done those of the 280s that I promised I would early (Susan and Sarah, this means YOU - your grades are up in Camlink). I should have the rest done by tomorrow, I think. O boy this is a hard slog...

I really want to do the "15 things about me and books" meme, or to comment on someone else's but I really need to mark more papers, so I'm going to mark at least three more papers before supper, and then maybe three more, and then set my 280 exam, THEN maybe I'll do the meme...

You know that meme where you say what you were doing 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago... well, it gets kind of monotonous in my case. On Thursday, I was given a "pin" to celebrate fifteen years of service at Camosun College! It feels nice. Strange, but nice. It was a very warm gathering of friends and colleagues, especially as there was ( Read more... )