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June 3, 2010
A year of learning
Though not a year of learning much about the Middle Ages. Sad.
Because I am serving on the Committee on the Faculty, I've learned lots about the inner workings of these Colleges, especially about squeaky wheels.
Because I'm on CoFac, I got seconded to the President's Budget Advisory Task Force, and I learned even more about the innards of the place -- especially how close to the edge we always skate. Who would be a dean?
Because I'm chair of the Department of Art and Architecture (oops - need to agitate to get the web page updated!), I get to hire adjuncts for the Fall. Luckily, there's a Chairs Handbook to help with that sort of thing.
The things one learns.
Luckily, to raise my mood, the theme for one of the fall medieval conferences plays right into an occasional paper I did for our Classics Department's annual lecture last fall - so I just have to (1) turn it into an abstract and then (2) give it a much firmer foundation for public presentation in front of medievalists. More about that later, but that helps!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 3, 2010 11:29 AM