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Sep. 4th, 2020 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIt's been a reasonable week, which is somewhat of a surprise, but I'll take it. I actually got to meet the new Dean via Zoom today, and he at least acknowledged that I'm more than a glorified secretary (partly because I introduced myself as the program administrator for the MMSc in Dental Ed and the DMD curriculum coordinator, and didn't mention that I'm also the assistant to the Associate Dean for Dental Education). New Dean is a periodontologist, and a researcher, so there's going to be some shift in focus because the previous Dean was a clinical oral surgeon. I think I might have wasted all the work I put into curriculum maps for a combined MD/DMD program, but what the hell, I got paid for it anyway.
I took the air conditioner out of the office window today, because I only really need it when it's 95 and humid, and it hasn't done that for several weeks and isn't supposed to do that for as far out as the weather forecast goes. I only really believe any given weather forecast for about three days out, but I'd rather have an open window than an air conditioner taking up all the room. I did at least put the screws back in the holes they came out of so I can find them next summer, if I'm still working from home next summer.
Having looked at the disaster going on around that window (the third-floor air conditioner leaked in the wrong direction several years ago and there was water coming through the top of the second-floor window frame), it's not quite as bad as I thought. Several hundred layers of paint have peeled off the plaster, but the plaster itself is just sitting there. (But ye gods, they must have used paint about the consistency of peanut butter last time they painted this place. I wonder how they got it through the sprayer?)
Anyway, never mind, it's a long weekend and I really ought to do something with it besides getting my hairs cut on Sunday. Still not quite ready to take the time to be a redhead again, but at least I can get it cut and not walk around looking quite so shaggy.
I took the air conditioner out of the office window today, because I only really need it when it's 95 and humid, and it hasn't done that for several weeks and isn't supposed to do that for as far out as the weather forecast goes. I only really believe any given weather forecast for about three days out, but I'd rather have an open window than an air conditioner taking up all the room. I did at least put the screws back in the holes they came out of so I can find them next summer, if I'm still working from home next summer.
Having looked at the disaster going on around that window (the third-floor air conditioner leaked in the wrong direction several years ago and there was water coming through the top of the second-floor window frame), it's not quite as bad as I thought. Several hundred layers of paint have peeled off the plaster, but the plaster itself is just sitting there. (But ye gods, they must have used paint about the consistency of peanut butter last time they painted this place. I wonder how they got it through the sprayer?)
Anyway, never mind, it's a long weekend and I really ought to do something with it besides getting my hairs cut on Sunday. Still not quite ready to take the time to be a redhead again, but at least I can get it cut and not walk around looking quite so shaggy.
