Annoying day in which I continually seem to be at the wrong end of the conversation and drift through the building in a puff of cluelessness.
Trains not working due to flooding on the line, so day starts with a nice comfy lift and chat with my hubby. Then again we need the extra time to clean up after poorly pussycats.
Help an Msc student with referencing. He has major problems with very basicv things. He claims never to have been aware of any of my classes though I ran several fir his group and know for a fact they were heavily promoted by academic ataff. Where has he been all year? Why can students not extrapolate from examples to further instances. How many times do I have to demonstrate the order of names? He’s using a copyright online image without permission as well, so I open that can of worms right up.
Look at a colleague’s holiday photos from Australia. Miss most of the explanation of the picture where people’s feet appear to be being massaged by fish. Some sort of fish spa apparently. Always wondered what sushi was made of: clearly the answer is ‘little piggies’.
Attend 3 meetings relating to 3 different summer school programmes, and develop headache and mild panic about what needs done for all of these and what order they should be tackled in. Then again have a useful discussion with member of our academic support service, looking at what we are each covering and how it all fits together. This is definitely progress.
Won’t even broach the depressingly numbing topic of document storage management – manage to escape that meeting early as double booked.
Subscriptions and renewals just won’t behave and lead to team-wide headaches. No one ever sends the right or the complete information. Crucial people never where you want them and prices never what you expect. Gah. It’s a miracle we can get access to anything at the moment.
Lots bubbling under on the CDG front – submitting our ideas for the Umbrella conference programme; pulling together some last minute event reports for Impact (forced to resort to quoting this blog…)
The end of the day is in sight, am going to knock off shortly and take in a free tasting at the local deli, handily on the way to the station…
