K and all--
I think I'm feeling a little like you. Because my school was losing an administrator, we got a turnaround specialist--someone whose supposed to be able to get our shit in a pile--and I'm feeling a little intimidated by the idea that now everyone is trying to do better and be better. So what makes me so special? It's nice most selfless Mother Theresa-like ways, to see the rapid progress the school is making and the way some of even the most reticent folk are being dragged along behind kicking and screaming, but I'm also, in the slefish egocentric ways, thinking, wait up! I'm the boss here! I wanna keep doing my own thing and keep feeling superior. I need to stop being Mother Superior and start being Mother Theresa.
Aside from work (and what else is ther, I sometimes feel), all is well. I'm trying to decide whether to move out of my big giant apartment where I'll soon be living alone to move in with a friend (Cyndi Early, for the two of youse who met her) in the small house she just bought. Less privacy, but I'll save money. Any thoughts, Oh wisdom of the listserve? Guide me!
Andrea
From: "Kathleen J. Klompien" <kklompien@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: comptesol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: comptesol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Back in the saddle . . .
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:44:21 -0700
M et al.,Great to hear from you! I want to try to call you sometime when we are both on our way home. Watch out fellow drivers! I am about as happy as an Eyeore. I am really wondering why I did this crazy thing. I miss my tutors and fellow CSLAers TERRIBLY. This is the land of dudes, cowboys, bare midriffs and bleach blondes. It will get better, it will, it will, but right now I am missing the hunger and the drive of my old dirty dysfunctional campus. I think I am supposed to be a problem solver--I am so used to dysfunction that I don't know what to do without it. I am sure that things will get better once I see some students who need me, but help me Dr. Phil! Why am I so bad at being in a stable environment??One thing I am going to do is start getting together with people for lunch. I need to do an Amy!I have yet to do anything on my dis., but starting next week I am going to carve out 45 minutes a day, 3x per week to work on my proposal, hold me to it, k?feeling sad at the loony bin,kath
On 8/31/05, Natalie Dorfeld <natalie_dorfeld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mysti --
So glad you hear from you, darling.
In fact, I used you (and not in a dirty and bad Angelina Jolie way) in class the other day. I threw out lollipops when the kiddies voiced their fears about writing.
By the end of class, they were too hyper to be frightened. "I love grammar!"
Stay cool.
-- Maria
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world [?] the point is to change it." --Karl Marx
