Wow I'm back!
Dec. 1st, 2023 10:51 amNo good reason, just irritable and need a place to vent. This has not been a spectacular week.
There's a lot of brouhaha on campus, and late wednesday we were advised that if we could swing working from home for the rest of the week we should do that. I was amenable but I have two budget meetings today. They're not our usual all-hands-on-deck meetings, it's for smaller units who meet with just a vice provost. This year I'm sitting in as a favor to the VP. Anyway, I was hoping he'd move them to zoom, no dice, so I dragged myself in this morning. Not only is the building on lackdown so I'm struggling to get my effing ID out, then I get quizzed when I come in the door. How long will I be here? Will I be staying on my floor? When I leave, can I please use a different entrance? JFC, people, I would in fact PREFER TO BE HOME and if it was this important to you that you suppress all traffic in and out and through the building then perhaps you should have been a little more directive with the Vice Provost about moving those meetings! I assume our attendees will get to go through the same "welcome" to boot.
And I would truly rather be home because I have standing water in my laundry room from a mysterious floor drain, and it's making my washing machine also not drain, so I'm trying to keep separate the clothes that are wet (but cannot yet be rewashed) because they're wet from laundry water vs those which are wet from mystery floor water which I think it grey water but could possible be sewage(!!!) and again: none of this stuff can be rewashed right now. So I have a lot of wet clothes on my deck and yes, it's raining and making them wetter, thank you universe. No idea when maintenance is going to reply
And then I'm still steaming that my father-in-law sent me a huge long email about the current student activism situations at my employer (information courtesy of a reliably biased news network) while giving my name/email to the daughter of one of his church friends who is all upset about the very biased take she's gotten. This person, by the way, lives in Houston, and ever went to UM, so I don't know what her effing deal is. If she contacts me... well I hope she does not.
I don't have time to type out the 74 other things on my list.
There's a lot of brouhaha on campus, and late wednesday we were advised that if we could swing working from home for the rest of the week we should do that. I was amenable but I have two budget meetings today. They're not our usual all-hands-on-deck meetings, it's for smaller units who meet with just a vice provost. This year I'm sitting in as a favor to the VP. Anyway, I was hoping he'd move them to zoom, no dice, so I dragged myself in this morning. Not only is the building on lackdown so I'm struggling to get my effing ID out, then I get quizzed when I come in the door. How long will I be here? Will I be staying on my floor? When I leave, can I please use a different entrance? JFC, people, I would in fact PREFER TO BE HOME and if it was this important to you that you suppress all traffic in and out and through the building then perhaps you should have been a little more directive with the Vice Provost about moving those meetings! I assume our attendees will get to go through the same "welcome" to boot.
And I would truly rather be home because I have standing water in my laundry room from a mysterious floor drain, and it's making my washing machine also not drain, so I'm trying to keep separate the clothes that are wet (but cannot yet be rewashed) because they're wet from laundry water vs those which are wet from mystery floor water which I think it grey water but could possible be sewage(!!!) and again: none of this stuff can be rewashed right now. So I have a lot of wet clothes on my deck and yes, it's raining and making them wetter, thank you universe. No idea when maintenance is going to reply
And then I'm still steaming that my father-in-law sent me a huge long email about the current student activism situations at my employer (information courtesy of a reliably biased news network) while giving my name/email to the daughter of one of his church friends who is all upset about the very biased take she's gotten. This person, by the way, lives in Houston, and ever went to UM, so I don't know what her effing deal is. If she contacts me... well I hope she does not.
I don't have time to type out the 74 other things on my list.