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[dchenes]

My wedding hairdo only had 24 bobby pins in it. Well, 23, because one of them fell out before it got to the wedding. (The record number I can remember in wedding hair, and it wasn't my hair they were in, was 36.)

I sort of wish this had been the long weekend, but I can't imagine the headache it would have been having a wedding on Memorial Day weekend. I could use three days OFF, though. Most of the reason I need that is because work continues to make me horribly frustrated at least once a day. For the last couple of weeks I've been having dreams in which nothing was going quite right and there was nothing I could do about it, and then I would have to get up and go to work where nothing went quite right and there was nothing I could do about it. (And then I had to put makeup on for the wedding, and I wasn't sure that was going to come out right either, since I almost never wear makeup. Of all the silly things to have subconscious fits about...)

It would help with the frustration and with the things not going quite right if there were any progress on the office-reorganization front. We have to hire a new Assistant Dean (with whom I'll be working; that's six different direct supervisors in two and a half years, if anybody's counting) and a new Program Director before I can switch over to junior promotions. Once I do that, I can maybe stop doing one and a half people's jobs in senior promotions. I will, of course, be doing one and a half people's jobs in junior promotions, but at least I'll be doing something completely new and maybe learning things.

Still tired. Still not king, either. (Was not expecting to be king by now, however.)

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[whuffle.livejournal.com]

The wedding I used to refer to as the pre-annulment party? My hairdo for that had 42 bobby pins in it and stood up on it's own AFTER the pins were removed. It was an incredibly Jersey girl sort of hairdo.

Given the extra workload, have you considered doing what I did and going to the union to ask for monetary compensation for taking on additional duties when a superior leaves? It's written into the union contract as a requirement......

I'd also suggest that maybe you consider whether or not it's time to look for another job that would be less stressful and more engaging. There's plenty out there right now and you know people move around internally a whole lot without it being considered bad political form to do so....

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

My hair was a French twist, which actually did come down once I figured out how many bobby pins were crossing each other and therefore locking each other in place. (OW.)

I can't really get any more money, because I'm not taking on work above my level; I'm just doing things I can do more expediently than anybody else, when they need to be done expediently. Which is pretty much always, so I end up being The Person Who Does This Thing.