![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Feb. 28th, 2018 09:34 amI'm dragging myself through this week, because the daily grind is getting more grinding than usual. But yesterday I did have a perspective readjustment; I was walking up to the bus stop behind a man who was sort of wandering up the sidewalk in a daze, and when he realized I was behind him he moved over and said "Sorry, my son just made it through brain surgery and that's all I'm thinking about." So I said Excellent, glad to hear it, and he slapped me on the back and we went our separate ways. And I didn't mind that a perfect stranger had just slapped me on the back, because he seemed to want somebody to be glad with and I could do that for him. Daily grind notwithstanding, at least I don't have anything like he had to deal with.
This week I finally instituted the ODE Non-Dental Book Swap. I'm waiting for the Vice Dean to say something about it because he hates things on top of the filing cabinets, but they're my filing cabinets and he has a door he can shut if he doesn't want to look at them. So there. Or he can just take all the books away himself, and it's only about a dozen books.
Good, I don't have to worry about the DMD/MD program for at least another year, because HMS is dragging its collective feet about it. So I won't have anybody to coordinate until August 2019 at the earliest. That means I have a year to figure out the MMSc in Dental Ed coordinator stuff. And learn to be a manager. And I have three months to write a one-hour presentation on defining competencies for accreditation (but I wrote 10 slides already, so that's a start).
It's a personal day when you're taking it because otherwise you're going to say something you really shouldn't say to somebody you really shouldn't say it to, right? I think there may be one of those coming up next week.
This week I finally instituted the ODE Non-Dental Book Swap. I'm waiting for the Vice Dean to say something about it because he hates things on top of the filing cabinets, but they're my filing cabinets and he has a door he can shut if he doesn't want to look at them. So there. Or he can just take all the books away himself, and it's only about a dozen books.
Good, I don't have to worry about the DMD/MD program for at least another year, because HMS is dragging its collective feet about it. So I won't have anybody to coordinate until August 2019 at the earliest. That means I have a year to figure out the MMSc in Dental Ed coordinator stuff. And learn to be a manager. And I have three months to write a one-hour presentation on defining competencies for accreditation (but I wrote 10 slides already, so that's a start).
It's a personal day when you're taking it because otherwise you're going to say something you really shouldn't say to somebody you really shouldn't say it to, right? I think there may be one of those coming up next week.
