"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Today was a very long day. Well, these things are all relative. But it was a slow day. Mostly because things I needed to do at work need other things to happen before I can do them.
I swear, though, there were plenty of times today when I was sure all the clocks were broken…or dirty, lousy liars.
I went campus calling today, visiting Adelphi University and talking to instructors across departments. Well, it was supposed to be across departments, but I just missed the professor in political science I’d hoped to meet with this afternoon — she warned me, she was in advising sessions all day — and couldn’t connect with the few others I thought might be willing to meet. So it was pretty much all psychology, plus the bookstore. I’m still hoping to get a few “meetings” done over the phone, with people who said they’d meet but couldn’t do so today.
I just can’t get those people to respond to my follow-up e-mails is all.
Meanwhile, I was unexpectedly given a new desk chair for my birthday yesterday — along with a number of other very generous gifts and well-wishes — and it’s amazing to discover this odd sensation at my desk which I think might just very well be comfort.
I took today off from work, to enjoy a long weekend. I work from home tomorrow, and then will be visiting a college campus close to home on Wednesday, so I’m sneaking in a little extra where I can.
I spent a lot of today getting caught up on The Walking Dead. I was less disappointed in the episodes than I thought I would be.
Today was kind of a weird day, if only for the weather, which was nasty and rainy and snowy for most of the day and then turned beautifully sun-shiney in the late afternoon. I got to work from home, which from all accounts was a good thing, commute-wise. I can’t claim it was an especially productive day, but I did some things. It was just, I dunno, kind of a weird day.
It rained all day, and I got less work done than I might have liked.
I’m waiting on people to reply to me. One person who did reply, an author I worked with several years back and was hoping to make part of my next required campus visit, said he probably can’t meet and…remind him who I was again? That’s always nice. I was just a lowly editorial assistant at the time, but it’s good to know I make such a lasting impression.
And then my parents and I had dinner out with my aunt and step-uncle, who are in town for some family business.
That was pretty much my Tuesday.