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kismet09I'm liking my job right now. I've talked my way into co-managing the health professional school application process, which means I've streamlined the way that we handle all the information that comes in, and eventually I'll get to meet with the committee and write composite recommendation letters, which means taking all of the recommendations that various people have written and merge them all into one succint, comprehensive letter. I finally managed to find some editing that I get to do as part of my job, rather than as a side piece for which I volunteer. I'm also hopefully making myself a little more indispensable, since I get nervous with all of the budget cuts coming up. Oh how I miss my little RLC job at a private, overfunded school in the middle of Iowa when it comes to total job security.
So now I work down in another office, surrounded by people who do similar jobs, for a couple of hours every day. I have to not neglect the main portion of my job, which is still working with the majors in the sciences, but most of them are on vacation right now. I am planning on writing a little survival skills manual to give to the first-year students, but I'm having trouble deciding exactly what to include and how much information I can give them before they hit overload and won't read/absorb any of it.
The rest of my life is rolling along smoothly. Tim's busier with his NSF research right now, and I'm entertaining myself by finishing up my sweater and watching guilty pleasure television. I have to clean my house since I'm hosting gatherings this and next Friday. That is one drawback to having Monday off - I'm one day closer to the deadline for getting things clean, or at least presentable. I've decided that it's time to give away some of my crafting supplies -- the chances that I'll ever use all of the collage material that I've accumulated are slim to none, so now I have to decide whether to just give it away, or try to sell it on eBay in one-pound packs or some such. Weekend project, I suppose.
So now I work down in another office, surrounded by people who do similar jobs, for a couple of hours every day. I have to not neglect the main portion of my job, which is still working with the majors in the sciences, but most of them are on vacation right now. I am planning on writing a little survival skills manual to give to the first-year students, but I'm having trouble deciding exactly what to include and how much information I can give them before they hit overload and won't read/absorb any of it.
The rest of my life is rolling along smoothly. Tim's busier with his NSF research right now, and I'm entertaining myself by finishing up my sweater and watching guilty pleasure television. I have to clean my house since I'm hosting gatherings this and next Friday. That is one drawback to having Monday off - I'm one day closer to the deadline for getting things clean, or at least presentable. I've decided that it's time to give away some of my crafting supplies -- the chances that I'll ever use all of the collage material that I've accumulated are slim to none, so now I have to decide whether to just give it away, or try to sell it on eBay in one-pound packs or some such. Weekend project, I suppose.
