The beginning of a brighter week

[treeskin]

The Troll resigned yesterday. There may be a party.

And it was, according to her, All. My. Fault. Big surprise there. Since neither Donna nor Dr G see it that way, her opinion doesn't matter.

The Troll told Donna yesterday morning that she just had trouble taking directions from people, because she expected to be the most knowledgable person in the place. **insert favorite rude noise here** (Yes, I know what that says about the places she used to work.)

So now, we're waiting for her to get her written resignation in, so that she's officially gone and we can rewrite the job description and post it again. We've got four students who've expressed interest, and any of them would be fantastic to have.

I should have gotten more class stuff done over the weekend, but I just couldn't focus. I spent three fairly productive hours on it yesterday, and will go on to that after I finish my morning updates. Must remember to run over to facilities and grab a map this afternoon, make copies for class.

Had a fairly quiet weekend...did a little shopping on Sunday (which included the yarns for your giftmas socks, tnrkitect), and a lot of knitting. I'd pulled out The Sweater last week as take-my-mind-off-the-bullshit knitting, and have made decent progress on it since. 11" done on the body, one sleeve half done, the other sleeve not far from that. I'm in a toot to work on it again, in hopes that maybe I'll get it done this time. Not that it's likely to be cold enough for that dense a sweater for what's left of this winter, but it'd be nice to have a major project done. Then I wouldn't feel guilty about starting the Enchanted Forest Aran. (Which I've been trying--and succeeding, thus far--to resist. But I've had the yarn for months now, and it's calling me.)

Comments

[bladed-pentacle.livejournal.com]

Rawk! All that time spent chasing her off worked, and you didn't even get busted for it. (Kidding! I know you just wanted her to get off her ass and do her job.)

Here's hoping you get a decent replacement.

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping for Courtney or Brian to get on as her replacement. But I know Courtney really wants (and needs) a full-time job, and Bri doesn't care for the current job description, which calls for working weekends. That part is fixable.

We'll just have to see. Both of our current work-study guys (Brian, and the new guy, Mike) have expressed interest, then there's Courtney, and maybe one of Donna's students, Bonnie. Just have to get the job description rewritten to take that stupid 2-yr degree requirement out of it.

[cammie018.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she will be out of your hair. And I hope you find the perfect person to replace her.

As far as feeling guilty about which projects you work on, here is Phoenix and I's take on that situation when making cookies. "They are our cookies, we can do what ever we want with them" I would say that rule applies to string as well ;)

Re: guilt and projects

[treeskin.livejournal.com]

It's been noted recently that folks who didn't know better might think I was raised Jewish, I get guilty about so much.

I am working on it.

I usually don't stress about it too much, but The Sweater's been a UFO for three winters now, and that's a bit much. I can't justify starting another equally time-consuming project when I've had that one in progress so long.