Promises, promises

"They" are assuring us that the air-conditioning in the building will be repaired by tomorrow at the latest. I'm not holding my breath. It has been two weeks already, and today is another uncomfortable day here. I'm even more glad that today is my last day until a week from Thursday. Hopefully when I get back, we'll be back in the climate control zone.

Tick Tock...Tick Tock

It is sooooo quiet at work today. Most of the staff is either on their summer Friday, or taking a vacation day. I swear, you can hear a pin drop. It is hard to be here when it is so empty. I have a feeling today is going to drag, so look for many blog entries from me today ;)

Gross

There is a colony of ants living under my keyboard.

We didn't have anything at work to get rid of them except for a thing of pledge and Joy dish detergent. So, I used both. It now reaks to high heaven in here of lemon and my wrists keep slipping off the keyboard tray.

I think it is time to go home.

Number Crunching

Next week I will have my annual performance review. Although the department I work for is pretty laid back, I still get kind of anxious about it. In preparation for this meeting, I need to list out my accomplishments, with regard to our department's goals and objectives for the year.

Before I moved into higher ed., I held onto this uninformed fantasy about what it would be like to work in "the ivory tower." Surely, it wouldn't be anything like the corporate sector, where the almighty $$ seemed to drive everything, right? Well, it is somewhat less obvious as when I worked in corporate, but at the end of the day, it really all does boil down to how much revenue you are generating (even very indirectly, as in my job) for the University.

Our daily hours (minutes, even...for any task that takes more than 15) are reported and tracked in a system that somewhere down the line allows some number crunching administrator to use Financial Reporting Sofware to generate reports on our productivity, and value to the University. So, in noting my accomplishments for my review...it does make me think about how I should summarize them. Ack! You can see why I'm feeling anxious.