Like 'Cube says, it was a good day. Got a good nights sleep, got to work early, got started on preparing new course in applied nanotech. A paper is gonna get submitted to a very good journal today.
Then some kind of clusterf*ck happened.
We're probably not gonna get a new kitchen installed until over New Year's. I was supposed to have a phoner with a prospective grad student, but I never got anything but his voice mail. And the crowning achievement of the day - the Department Head sent me an email informing me that he'd volunteered me as the department's ombud for equal status/equal rights representative at the faculty.
I am now the Crown Prince of Political Correctness and Grand Wizard of Soul-Draining Meetings.
I sense some serious sucktual overtones happening here.
To quote Linda Eide in the last episode of Norske Attraksjoner - "Negative tankar"
If this sucks even half as much as I think it does, I'm going to seriously contemplate my chosen profession.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sic transit gloria mundi
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the Department Head sent me an email informing me that he'd volunteered me as the department's ombud for equal status/equal rights representative at the faculty.
He'd probably read all your rants about the stereo-typing Bohus commercials here on this blog...
:D
Too bad about your kitchen, but it's not urgent, is it? You still have a functional kitchen, no?
..yeah...that must be it....
The kitchen thing isn't urgent, but seeing as how Christmas is the busiest indoor cooking season, it would have been nice...
o quote Linda Eide in the last episode of Norske Attraksjoner - "Negative tankar"
Hey, I had a date with her last Friday, actually!
Shouldn't you be given the opportunity to volunteer yourself before some administrative dude did it for you? Since when were you so damn political correct anyway?
..I'm not, which could cause some problems down the road. Moreover, it's approximately one evaluation per week, which is a ton of extra work for which I receive the Princely compensation of nothing but reduced overall productivity.
You want some cheese with that whine?
Absolutely bogus assignment, seeing as how I won't be able to spot a screwjob outside of my scientific comfort zone unless it's blatantly obvious. For fields far outside of my own, all I can realistically do is add a sentence like "How come there are so few women on the short list", seeing as how I wouldn't be qualified to properly rank candidates.
Pass the Jarlsberg
Hey, I had a date with her last Friday, actually!
What do you mean?
Well.
A book-signing is perhaps the proper word for it.
..she has a book out?
Yeah.
About the attractions featured in the series. Haven't started reading it yet, though.
http://butikken.nrk.no/shop/index.wa2?ParentProductId=1936
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