This is the final week before the Fall semester begins. This means we have to prep for everything asap because the entire campus (except a skeleton crew for all student services because registration is STILL going on) is stuck going to this required function called Convocation on Friday morning. We HAVE to go and if we don't show up we don't get this damned 'Thunderwater credit' for it. People who cannot attend because they are working student services must watch a video of it later in the semester.
We HAVE to have X amount of this credit every year, in various categories, and the amount of credit we are supposed to gather each year is up-ed every year. One category is called "Mind/Body/Health" and they want us to do some kind of exercise. When I was more healthy and could get away, I did line-dancing at noon. However, when we moved to the new building everyone decided NOT to be available in the lab to watch it during the time of the class so I could no longer go. Ex-boss, who is now fulltime faculty starting yesterday plans on going, so I may sneak off with her this semester and make the guys, and the new Associate Dean, remain in the office. However, I know the new boss/AD will go to lunch at noon as usual and pretty much disappear, as usual.
Anyway, this damned Convocation has always started at a ridiculous hour of the morning, with crappy breakfast foods served. They want people to eat and mingle. It is supposed to be a community-building event. Community my ass. Instead of this crap, save the money wasted on this stupidity and pay me more! I stopped going early because I have nothing to say that early in the morning and no one wanted to talk to me, anyway. When I am not being useful to someone, I am ignored. It's been that way for as long as I have lived so I don't expect it to change.
The last few years, instead of getting up and going early, I would sleep late, eat a decent breakfast, then arrive a few minutes before it began, get my nametag to log myself in and go sit down. Well, this year the chairs in the Performance Hall, which were sent to be recovered and were PROMISED to be done by this date, are not ready. Do the Powers-That-Be do the smart thing and cancel the activity, or at least change the date for later? Nope. Now we have to be bussed to an auditorium in another town for the event. Talk about stupid.
We haven't gotten the details yet, but I bet they will force those taking the bus to get up at some god-awful time to meet the bus. I bet they will make everyone be there around 6:30am. That's crap.
Do I want to drive to the event? No. Why should I waste my gas to go to something they fumbled and will not admit it is a ridiculous idea to pursue?
There's lots more to this, like our tech being forced to run sound because the official campus sound guy feels like he cannot do it, so our tech cannot get our rooms completed before class since he has to go to all the rehearsals.
The Associate Deans in our area have also switched so now my great boss is full-time faculty and someone who really does not know our area well enough to do the job is the new Associate Dean. The new AD got back from vacation and was hit yesterday morning with all the crap that has to get done before the Fall semester begins and I really do not regret going it. The new AD has to realize the job has all these nitpicky details that have to be done and I cannot make those kinds of decisions on my own. If I could make those decisions, I would also expect a job title change and all the money that goes with the title.
Enough blathering for now.
rat and I are going out to dinner with his sister and brother-in-law tonight. This is the first time we have been invited out by them and while the excuse is to celebrate rat's new job (which he has not been hired on permanently yet!), I suspect an ulterior motive. I bet the topic of their parents comes up and what to do about their dad's memory loss. Ugh...
Thanks: --> to Lia, my sensei, who has inspired me to draw again. I
wouldn't be doing this without your support, Domo Arigato!
--> to Talon, for sending me her fabulous fics, inspiring me with her writing to draw my first
illustration for a story and actually liking what I drew.
--> to Dasia, for her words of encouragement when drawing her original chara.
--> to Joules, a wonderful epic fic writer, for liking my art enough to want to post them with Talon's
and her own stories.
--> to Lutra, the other half of the epic team, for being so supportive.
--> to Jacque' & Becca Raddittzu, we met on eBay as bidder and sellers and now we are face-to-face
friends. You showed us the real DBZ with your fansubs. It's all your fault the house is full of
doujinshi! *LOL*
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