TGIF and other comments
Mar. 23rd, 2007 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt's gorgeous out. I wish I had opened the kitchen door before I left this morning, so as to air the place out all day. (I'm waiting for it to start snowing again just because I said it was nice out. This is New England in March, after all.)
My elbow is mostly thinking about behaving itself again, although it still hurts and gets stiff when I get tired. My shoulder is complaining some, but I think that's because there's a knot in it.
I was right about work not being particularly pleasant while we sort out workloads again. While some of the things I was doing have gone to other people, I've inherited the tracking of several searches (which clog up my inbox like nobody's business) and I'm supposed to be tracking about 20 committees as well. Needless to say, I'm not getting all of it done. The problem is that while we've got more help now, they don't know which end is up yet. If something's got to be done, they've either got to ask me how, or I've got to do it. On top of which, apparently we're now going to change the way things are assigned to people.
It used to be that we divided the entire promotion process into chunks by time, so L was in charge of the CAD meeting and inviting committees and tracking acceptances and turndowns and sending out materials once we had a complete committee. While the committee was working, I was tracking it, setting up the final meeting and the SOP meeting, and closing the appointments after SOP. Now it looks like the committee invitations will be dealt with by one person, and after the committee is complete, whoever is assisting the Dean's Office rep for that committee will do everything from then on, up until the SOP meeting, which I'm still in charge of. The problem with that is, the Assistant Dean has 2 assistants (3, actually, but 2 are part-time), but my boss only has me, so I'm suddenly tracking 20 committees. My clone has been hired, but she doesn't start until April. So I'm trying to figure out what I have to do for which committees when.
In cheerier news, I've got all available appendages crossed that I can move back to Union St. in September. The human chimney who's living there now is moving to Maine sometime soonish, and if I can afford whatever the rent turns out to be, the place will be mine. Even if I have to paint the entire apartment and steam-clean the carpets so it stops smelling like an ashtray, I won't be living in Roxbury any more, and I'll have my own thermostat and I'm encouraged to have pets if I want them.
If the universe wants to balance out my falling down the stairs with giving me back the Union St. apartment, I'll certainly let it!
My elbow is mostly thinking about behaving itself again, although it still hurts and gets stiff when I get tired. My shoulder is complaining some, but I think that's because there's a knot in it.
I was right about work not being particularly pleasant while we sort out workloads again. While some of the things I was doing have gone to other people, I've inherited the tracking of several searches (which clog up my inbox like nobody's business) and I'm supposed to be tracking about 20 committees as well. Needless to say, I'm not getting all of it done. The problem is that while we've got more help now, they don't know which end is up yet. If something's got to be done, they've either got to ask me how, or I've got to do it. On top of which, apparently we're now going to change the way things are assigned to people.
It used to be that we divided the entire promotion process into chunks by time, so L was in charge of the CAD meeting and inviting committees and tracking acceptances and turndowns and sending out materials once we had a complete committee. While the committee was working, I was tracking it, setting up the final meeting and the SOP meeting, and closing the appointments after SOP. Now it looks like the committee invitations will be dealt with by one person, and after the committee is complete, whoever is assisting the Dean's Office rep for that committee will do everything from then on, up until the SOP meeting, which I'm still in charge of. The problem with that is, the Assistant Dean has 2 assistants (3, actually, but 2 are part-time), but my boss only has me, so I'm suddenly tracking 20 committees. My clone has been hired, but she doesn't start until April. So I'm trying to figure out what I have to do for which committees when.
In cheerier news, I've got all available appendages crossed that I can move back to Union St. in September. The human chimney who's living there now is moving to Maine sometime soonish, and if I can afford whatever the rent turns out to be, the place will be mine. Even if I have to paint the entire apartment and steam-clean the carpets so it stops smelling like an ashtray, I won't be living in Roxbury any more, and I'll have my own thermostat and I'm encouraged to have pets if I want them.
If the universe wants to balance out my falling down the stairs with giving me back the Union St. apartment, I'll certainly let it!
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Date: 2007-03-23 09:16 pm (UTC)Where's Union St., btw?
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Date: 2007-03-23 09:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-23 11:11 pm (UTC)