Update
It must have been ages, years or even a longer period of time since I have updated my journal. Why? I don't know. Because I have been busy? Maybe. Because I have had other, more important things to do (or at least things that seemed to be more important)? Even a bigger maybe.
What has changed lately (or during the time I have been away)? Not much and pretty much everything. I'm still doing work-wise what I was doing when I last updated my journal; I still teach at the Uni and hope to get my PhD theses done during the next spring. But I have a new boss. The one I used to have was a lovable old guy who treated us all with respect and the one I have now is not the kind of boss I would wish to anyone. She got her job, mainly, because she slept with the right guy. She doesn't know how to lead a department and she knows almost nothing of the subject she is supposed to be in charge of. She has no social skills and she is pretty much making the life of us working in the department a living hell.
Personally things are going either well or not so well. I broke up with my ex in January and found a new one about a month after that. And already I am not sure whether that was the right move. It's not that I don't like/love my boyfriend (okay, if I write like/love, that might not be the best of signs), it's just that I'm so used to hanging around with people older than me, that it somehow feels so weird to be dating someone 5 years younger than me. I mean, until now, I have always been the "kid" in our group of friends and now I'm supposed to be the adult...But that's just not me. Even though it's hard to admit, I would so much love to have someone like my ex (who was 10 years older than me) who is in charge so that I can just live my life and not care about everythig. I have to care about around 600 students 5 days a week; isn't that enough? Couldn't someone just make the decisions for me when I'm not working? Or should I maybe just try to grow up?
What has changed lately (or during the time I have been away)? Not much and pretty much everything. I'm still doing work-wise what I was doing when I last updated my journal; I still teach at the Uni and hope to get my PhD theses done during the next spring. But I have a new boss. The one I used to have was a lovable old guy who treated us all with respect and the one I have now is not the kind of boss I would wish to anyone. She got her job, mainly, because she slept with the right guy. She doesn't know how to lead a department and she knows almost nothing of the subject she is supposed to be in charge of. She has no social skills and she is pretty much making the life of us working in the department a living hell.
Personally things are going either well or not so well. I broke up with my ex in January and found a new one about a month after that. And already I am not sure whether that was the right move. It's not that I don't like/love my boyfriend (okay, if I write like/love, that might not be the best of signs), it's just that I'm so used to hanging around with people older than me, that it somehow feels so weird to be dating someone 5 years younger than me. I mean, until now, I have always been the "kid" in our group of friends and now I'm supposed to be the adult...But that's just not me. Even though it's hard to admit, I would so much love to have someone like my ex (who was 10 years older than me) who is in charge so that I can just live my life and not care about everythig. I have to care about around 600 students 5 days a week; isn't that enough? Couldn't someone just make the decisions for me when I'm not working? Or should I maybe just try to grow up?