And yet, a week before the event, I had backed out.
As the Comrade might say: What the ffucke?
And I realized that sometimes, dedication to work needs to take a backseat. That I could be here in my office from sunup to sunset every day, just in case some student wanted to see me, and that I'd probably see maybe one more student a week. That while I enjoy my job, and have been really proud of how well I've been doing, it's okay to relax once in a while. It's okay to opt out of a meeting rescheduled at the last minute, even if your "appointment" was with the couch and some reading you really needed or wanted to do. That it's okay to tell a student that you're just not available for a special meeting at that time.
I'm about halfway there on this. The halfway that has learned to say "no" retracted my retraction and got my ass to the out-of-town-but-not-by-much venue and had a fun lunch, full of foods I usually don't eat, swearing, stories about college drinking, and lots of inappropriateness with a bunch o'bloggers (CP and I noting the moribund-but-not-quite-dead states of our blogs). The other half had to bail after two hours because I had office hours at 4:30. Two days before Thanksgiving.
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| From left: Comrade Physioprof; Notorious Ph.D.; Historiann (with spouse) |
I totally forgot that I had that "work less/live more" tag. Maybe that needs to be something I work on.
9 comments:
Thanks for coming down for lunch! It was really fun to see you again & to meet CPP, finally.
Yes, live more, work less (or work smarter, as they say.) CPP, the Spouse, and I didn't break up the party until 4:30 p.m.!
You would have been just in time to come down to LB for office hours! It would be fun! Scare my students!
Gotta love day-drinking with amazing peeps!
We actually considered calling you so you could put us on speaker in your office to help you with office hours!!
Comrade, that would have been beyond excellent. I would have had to INSIST that you do it in your usual vernacular. It would make me seem tame by comparison.
Oh, yeah: one more thing. What is "OGs?" (I'm serious, and probably seriously stupid. Must have been the day-drinking, for which I am far too old.)
Original Gangsters.
The real question is whether you had students in your office hours @ 4:30 on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Because that would be pretty impressive.
This sounds fabulous!
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