Just Down
I am just really down.
It is so hard to force myself to do the things I need to do lately.'
Last Thursday was VERY pleasant at the Retiree's Cigar Group. One bright spot in an otherwise gloomy time.
The person I no longer write about was in rare form Saturday, and it colored my Saturday, my Sunday, and into now.
My secretary screwed up one version of one of my exams I gave yesterday. I was not able to catch it since she did not have the exams ready until about 10 minutes before class. This class has about 150 students, with five versions. One version had many, many mistakes (including two questions labeled as #43). Instead of the work I needed to do yesterday afternoon, I had to spend the hours figuring out what the hell she did to this exam so I could create a new, separate answer key for grading so this subset of the class would be graded fairly. It was annoying and not what I wanted to do. And, she had this exam for over THREE WEEKS to prepare. This new secretary (she has been here 3 years) leaves a lot to be desired. I miss my old friendly secretary who was very meticulous. She retired three years ago.
I voted this morning. I honestly do not care anymore who wins. I just want the election to be over. But, of course it will not be over for months and months no matter who wins. I cannot bear to watch news any longer because it is just too much stupid politics. I cannot listen to my friendly NPR because it is ALL damn politics.
PipeTobacco
3 Comments:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, Professor, but how does your secretary's mistake become work for you? Shouldn't she fix her own mistakes? If she doesn't, isn't she setting a very bad precedent for the future? I would think/hope that you could explain to her what she got wrong, and what she needs to do to mitigate her mistakes (e.g. prepare a usable new answer key). If she can't or won't, maybe this is work you can delegate to a graduate student in the future? It doesn't seem right that her mistake should cause extra work for you; if that's the pattern, you might as well do it all yourself, yes? Which defeats the purpose of having a secretary, I know.
I suspected there were a few people out there who didn't care about the election. But I never guessed you would be one of them. At least that's one worry off your plate. I have one word for you...retirement. Based on reading your early blog entries I'm pretty sure you're old enough. Retirement is pretty wonderful so I hope you don't deny yourself the chance to experience it. Time's a wasting!
That is a situation that should not have happened. Could you not have printed what you submitted and run off 500 copies? I know it is not standard protocol, but it would be a fix that would do in a pinch.
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