A long week
Posted: November 20th, 2009 | Author: Moonstar Silverwolf | Filed under: Personal | Tags: work | CommentsThis week has been a week that would not end, I swear. Part of my problem is that I keep feeling as though I am walking through this world alone. Whether this is true or not, I do not know. I know part of it is my own fault since I don’t have a lot of time to call up my friends, but it seems many of them are in the same boat as me. Add to that the fact that I have no family here, I’m currently going through a rather emotional spiritual change and I get stressed from work too easily, I ended up just not wanting to deal with anything.
First, I want to thank everyone of my friends who took the time to post a comment on the previous post about why they are Muslim. Sadly, I know many more females than I do males in the Muslim faith, so most of the commenter are female which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I find it rather interesting and realized this as I started to notice this trend.
Tuesday showed me again why I do not like my workplace. I had to express my concern to another coworker after we planned a meeting then told students less than 24 hours from when the meeting was scheduled. We also didn’t do my suggestion to have the meeting scheduled during the scheduled class time when our class is scheduled on people’s schedules, but instead we scheduled it for earlier in the day. Just doesn’t make sense to me – I think it would be smarter to schedule meetings earlier in advance and then do it at time when most will be free to come. I had to express my concern due to the fact that we are growing and we have roughly 100 majors and minors now which means we cannot assume we can all get together anymore unless we plan ahead. I have also heard students complain about how quickly meetings are scheduled and how short of notice they get. I doubt this will change anytime soon, but at least I know I have done something..
Of course, the meeting situation got worse when the times had to be redone due to something that came up the day of the meeting – (yet -if they had followed my lead it would have stayed the same – just had to say it..).
Thursday was my last day of classes before a break and today I went in just for my students so they can finish their projects. I am also working on getting my life back from work and have figured out that I just need to ignore my cell phone and emails once in awhile. My general idea is – what would you do if I didn’t have a cell phone or access to computer? Guess you have to tell me sooner right? Sure, this will get some people to not like me because I’m less available, but I feel it is what I need to do if I want to have a life away from work.
I’m also a nerd and emailed the professor of a class I plan to take next semester to ask whether he know what books he was planning to use as I would like to get a jump start on the reading. And, yay, he replied back, so I immediately ordered them..lol. The only thing stopping me from taking the class is a medical form, so I have to schedule an appointment during my semester break. I also looked into the possibility of what classes I can take online, so maybe next year I can work up some money to take a class or two more, I would love to get this Masters degree done in a few years, then I might actually think about other possible job options in the international political world.
Tomorrow I have to get up early (ick!) for one last thing for the University. As soon as I get home from that, I am free for a week. I plan to ignore work phone calls, so if you try to call me & you are from my University, leave me a bloody message and I’ll decide what I want to do.
Related posts:
- A day of twists
- I’ve got some nosy students – with audio podcasting update from my IR classes this week
- Looking back on Ramadan and forward to Eid
- I hate this..
- Solitary Working
