8/25/2004

 

Library tip-o-the-day

A box of New York Times microfilm is excellent for squishing ants. FUCKING ANTS that keep invading your office, hiding in your trash cans, swarming in your desk drawer, going after the candy that already can't serve its intended purpose (freshman goody bags, see earlier post) that I am damn well not going to let go totally to waste in spite of what the FUCKING ANTS might have in mind.

It's been a very long day and I'm ready to go home.

9:50 PM

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8/19/2004

 

***SIGH***

The repair guy has officially pronounced the library's fax machine to be dead. (Well, technically it's fixable, but the repair would cost more than a new machine.)

Why do these things always happen in the year of budget cuts???

4:30 PM

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8/16/2004

 

Venting

So I did some researching and some planning. How to draw freshmen into the library, how to foster some library goodwill. I planned goody bags to hand out to freshmen after the mandatory library tour during orientation. ("The library is cool, they give you free stuff!") Spent a morning and a good chunk of book sale profit buying stuff to go in the goody bags, spent an afternoon sitting in my office floor stuffing the bags. Obtained a raffle prize and made up raffle tickets to go in the bags, so that freshmen going on the tour could turn in the raffle ticket and win (bring 'em back into the building to drop off the ticket - and more free stuff!)

The orientation schedule, next to "Library Tours", left off the word "Mandatory".

Take a wild guess how many people showed up for the 9:30 tour.

Go ahead, make your predictions as to how many will show up for the 10:30 and 11:30 tours.

Remind me again why the %)*#! I do this?

UPDATE: The scheduled tour times are over. Grand total of students I gave tours to today? TWO!!!

9:54 AM

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8/13/2004

 

From the fun, back to the grind

The recital went GREAT. The kids performed wonderfully, everyone was in the right costume at the right time, Ginger and I managed to do our new routines flawlessly (a couple of them it was the first time we'd accomplished that!) and it was a huge success. I foresee this becoming an annual event, although shorter next time (it ran about 2 hours!) and hopefully with less than 10 costume changes! The costumes looked great though. Pics are here.

This week has been insane. Monday I was worn out from the show. Tuesday thru Thursday were faculty workshop, meaning I was in meetings all day. Thursday morning I was actually presenting all morning, which seemed to go pretty well. This morning I met four of my new students and got them registered for classes, and I've been trying to get caught up on my regular library stuff this afternoon before I go meet with my students again at 4. (Which is why I'm blogging, right?) Tomorrow morning I get the rest of them registered. I figure if things go as usual, my job will be positively nuts from now til fall break. Yahoo!

And on a totally different note, I would like to tell the world how incredibly happy I am to be celebrating 10 wonderful years of being married to Brian. I love you honey!

2:16 PM

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8/05/2004

 

Long time no blog

What can I say, summer break for me tends to wind up being summer break from EVERYTHING. So, the goings-on for the last month...

The Adoption. Info about that on our China Dreaming blog.

The trip out West. My grandpa and I flew to Denver and spent the next week and a half driving 2000 miles. We went up to South Dakota to Deadwood, saw Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse, drove across part of Montana to revisit an old haunt or two, down through Yellowstone (incredible), and across Wyoming. It was a very nice trip. Pics here.

The house. We have new carpet and paint in the living/dining rooms, new paint and tile in the front hall, new linoleum in the kitchen and laundry room, a new dishwasher, a new pantry cabinet...Wow! I feel like I live in a new house! It's wonderful and it looks great. We've still got plenty of loose ends to finish up, but hopefully they won't take too long...then we'll start on Emma's room.

The recital. We are doing a big clogging show/recital this Sunday. Lately that's meant two practices a week for me plus doing my part on the costumes (which would be much larger if I could actually sew.) We have no clue how many people to expect but it is by far the largest performance we've ever done - around 25 dancers, 23 songs, and several costumes for the older girls (7 or 8 for me and Ginger!) So hopefully there will be a good crowd to make it worth it! Ginger and a couple of other people in the group have put in tons and tons of hours to make all the costumes (and they're not done!) Wish us luck!

And finally, back to work. This is "get ready week". Next week is Faculty Workshop (for which I am giving a library presentation, which I didn't know about until I got the printed workshop schedule), next Friday and Saturday are freshman advising, the following Monday is Tour Day, and Tuesday classes start. I am way ahead of myself - I already have my syllabus mostly done! Now I just have to figure out what to do the first week of class...the subject matter is school history, and yesterday I came up wtih a kickass (if I do say so myself!) idea about making a set of Go Fish cards with photos of important people in Pfeiffer history, old buildings, etc. so the students can have fun playing a card game while they learn. But of course I came up with this idea too late for this year, so it will have to wait. Of course, next year I probably won't be teaching (unless Emma comes earlier than expected and I'm totally back in my normal routine by then.) But the other seminar profs may want to use the card game.

And on that note, I will actually GET back to work. :)

1:54 PM

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