Workin' Woman Blues
January 16th, 2003 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shiredancer*BIG SIGH*
This time of year just does me in. Right now I'm in the race against the faculty review committee -- they meet next week to start reviewing applications for the best-of-the-best, fellowship-nominated grad candidates, and they need a well-built database from me to smooth the way. Recalculated GPAs, GRE scores averaged two ways, letters of rec reviewed and notated... well, boring stuff, really. I do have help -- a very diligent young man from a temp agency is now helping with the odious GPAs (and if you run into any registrars from Georgia State, just kick them for me, will you? How can they *do* transcripts like that???), and my fabulous work-study student got the database started before she got called out to jury duty. If they'd chosen her, I think the judge would have had me to deal with -- give me a break, a seven-month trial?
There are perks, though. I can hear Arabic, Hebrew, Tibetan, Persian, Hindi, or Punjabi being spoken out in the corridors at any time, and where else do you get a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in full regalia coming in to ask about your grad program and breaking into a huge smile instead because you're wearing an authentic Arwen Evenstar necklace (TM), and launching into an animated (if broken) discussion of the Lord of the Rings?
Yep, it's a plus and minus time of year. My birthday's soon, too, and I have a couple of posts planned -- whoohoo! My birthday poem (well, okay, not mine, Dylan Thomas's), and something I once promised long ago to Chrysti: the Weirdness in Boston story. Sheesh, I'm running out of stories to tell on myself...
This time of year just does me in. Right now I'm in the race against the faculty review committee -- they meet next week to start reviewing applications for the best-of-the-best, fellowship-nominated grad candidates, and they need a well-built database from me to smooth the way. Recalculated GPAs, GRE scores averaged two ways, letters of rec reviewed and notated... well, boring stuff, really. I do have help -- a very diligent young man from a temp agency is now helping with the odious GPAs (and if you run into any registrars from Georgia State, just kick them for me, will you? How can they *do* transcripts like that???), and my fabulous work-study student got the database started before she got called out to jury duty. If they'd chosen her, I think the judge would have had me to deal with -- give me a break, a seven-month trial?
There are perks, though. I can hear Arabic, Hebrew, Tibetan, Persian, Hindi, or Punjabi being spoken out in the corridors at any time, and where else do you get a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk in full regalia coming in to ask about your grad program and breaking into a huge smile instead because you're wearing an authentic Arwen Evenstar necklace (TM), and launching into an animated (if broken) discussion of the Lord of the Rings?
Yep, it's a plus and minus time of year. My birthday's soon, too, and I have a couple of posts planned -- whoohoo! My birthday poem (well, okay, not mine, Dylan Thomas's), and something I once promised long ago to Chrysti: the Weirdness in Boston story. Sheesh, I'm running out of stories to tell on myself...
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Date: January 16th, 2003 12:33 pm (UTC)The Buddhist monk story made my day. It's good to be reminded now and again of just why we put up with this nonsense (because it sure as hell ain't the big bucks they're paying us).
Sheesh, I'm running out of stories to tell on myself... Then we shall simply have to get together and make more stories to tell. *wicked grin*
Lovelovelovelovelove!!
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Date: January 16th, 2003 01:39 pm (UTC)Heh. You *knew* that was exactly what I was thinking, didn't you, oh-one-who-shares-a-brain?