News of the world, and a question

[rolanni]

The auction for the papers associated with Lee and Miller's Carpe Diem has ended. Congratulations to the fortunate winner!

While the weather outside is cooling down, the weather in the attic office is...not. Today after work, I came home and napped, hoping to settle a headache (of which more in a moment) so nasty it was starting to upset my stomach. With Mozart's help, I fell asleep, waking in time to participate in a Heinous Act of Betrayal, as Steve and I boxed up himself and Scrabble for the annual pilgrimage to the vet. Both are pronounced healthy and were awarded shots.

Back home, I answered an editorial email, and will shortly join mine spouse for lunch. And an early bedtime. It's 'way too early in the academic year to be having even mini-meltdowns.

It appears that I have been granted a spot as a panelist for the February 18 presentation on Moonlighting sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Feminist Coalition at Colby College. More on that front as it materializes.

Via the New York Daily News, a reminder that writers aren't the most-exploited artists. Thanks to kinzel for the link.

About that headache.

One of my new chairs was trying to arrange a meeting. They had me reserve a room for Day X; called back and had me cancel that date, and reserve the room for another date, canceled that one and had me reserve for -- and I finally told them that I wasn't reserving any more rooms until they got their committee on-board with the date first. Then I'd reserve the room. To soften this, since I fear I may have been just a little stern, I added that the Scheduling Office would think that I'd lost my mind.

To which they replied, "Oh, just blame me."

To which I replied, silently, grrrrrr. Because of course, it's not the Scheduling Office's opinion of my sanity (they already know I'm a fruitcake), but the fact that it's wasteful of my time and disrepectful of the other departments I work for to continue to have me reserve and cancel rooms until the heat death of the universe.

A notion of which my faculty member seems Blissfully Unaware.

Honestly, some people's children.

Comments

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

New chairs, such fun! Our new chair quit or was fired today not even a week of classes yet. All applauded! God luck with yours.

I read the moonlighting thing and wondered. Somehow they perhaps define what is the moonlighting differently than you do? Writing being the real job not the day job?

[berry-k.livejournal.com]

Musicians are indeed much, MUCH more abused than writers. Check this out:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

Faculty

[sonyaotto.livejournal.com]

As a faculty member-who worked as a secretary for a number of years I now always ask myself before asking our administrative assistant to do anything: "What would Sharon and my sister (also in the same line of work)say about this request? And would they need to blog about it?" This keeps me from making many stupid requests and mistakes.... I apologize for my kind!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Our new chair quit or was fired today not even a week of classes yet.

That's...impressive.

I read the moonlighting thing and wondered. Somehow they perhaps define what is the moonlighting differently than you do? Writing being the real job not the day job?

Context is everything. There is a great deal of emphasis here on the "community of the college." Perhaps this is also true elsewhere; I don't seem to remember quite so much of a Thing made out of "community" at either the University of Maryland Grad Schools or at UMBC, but that might easily have been the times.

In any case, here, in the common thought, one is first a member of the college community, and then whatever else it is that one does.

I think that one of the things I'll have to address in my presentation is the fact that I'm "day-lighting;" that my/our work as a writer (stipulating timely payments) pretty much floats our boat. What the day-job does, is provide reasonably priced health insurance. If I could get that any other way, then I would not work here, because of the amount of time it takes away from my writing, and the business related to writing.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that (very scary) link.

Re: Faculty

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

"What would Sharon and my sister (also in the same line of work)say about this request? And would they need to blog about it?"

We here at Eagles Over the Kennebec are pleased to perform this small public service *g*

Re: Faculty

[baggette.livejournal.com]

YOU are NOT their kind!

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Re-Arrange the 'Chairs'......like the Titanic chairs.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Re-Arrange the 'Chairs'

If only...

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I know I shouldn't have to ask, but what was the question? See, the title promises a question, and ... I missed it?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had planned on positing the chair's behavior as a question, but -- I forgot.

Headache. I plead headache.