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AAAAH THIS WEEK
Mar. 18th, 2016 09:23 pmOr rather, the past two days. So on Thursday, I had to set up all the chairs, projectors, and screen for the lunchtime lecture, and get the coffee and tea ready, then break it down afterward (with some help) to set up four tables with twelve chairs for the board meeting. After work I had to come back 6:30-8 for said meeting, where I had to read the things Sue normally reads and had put together, but without really understanding how much needed to be said out loud or most of the facts. Then today I had to organize for the volunteers to come and put labels on our magazine to send to our members and then get the bins of magazines to the post office, go back to the museum and get the form I needed, find out I needed a check as well, write a check, drive to Sue's to get her to sign it, call one of the board officers to come sign it and the checks that I'd forgotten to bring out at the board meeting, call him back when the local officer came by and signed them, bring that to the post office, I left out that I went to the post office for an ordinary visit this morning, write up the bank deposit, figure out where the hell I went wrong so that I was $40 off (this happens almost every week*), take that in, and stay until 8. Nightmare. Now, this is also all the worst and most confusing stuff that I have to do as acting director, so everything's downhill from here. But it was pretty stressful.
* I'm so bad at administrative stuff. Even when I've had 100% administrative jobs. I've done some soul-searching to figure out if this is unconscious snobbery, like I think it's not worth effort, but in the end I think I'm just a stereotypical absent-minded professor, unable to be competent at anything except my academic field.
When I bought my dinner at the health food store, I let myself get a baggie of those great vegan fruit snacks and eat half of them. Comfort eating is bad and I'm trying to get rid of the winter weight that's settled, as usual, on my waist, but it felt very earned. Especially as I woke up at three realizing that I hadn't brought the checks out at the meeting and therefore was a useless human being.
I have so many books from NetGalley, I'm never going to go to the library again. Our Crowd is still good, but made a long digression to detail every step in the Reconstruction-era portion of the Seligmans' financial story, which was a bit painful. Probably ten percent of the book at least, all about money deals in the 1870s.
Other things: I mailed out signed complimentary copies of RWD to all the museums where I patterned, and I contacted the Cornell Costume Collection again. I already sent two emails to the address on the website and one message to the Facebook page, but I found an email they posted on FB a few weeks ago and sent the message to that one. They're bizarrely hard to get ahold of.
* I'm so bad at administrative stuff. Even when I've had 100% administrative jobs. I've done some soul-searching to figure out if this is unconscious snobbery, like I think it's not worth effort, but in the end I think I'm just a stereotypical absent-minded professor, unable to be competent at anything except my academic field.
When I bought my dinner at the health food store, I let myself get a baggie of those great vegan fruit snacks and eat half of them. Comfort eating is bad and I'm trying to get rid of the winter weight that's settled, as usual, on my waist, but it felt very earned. Especially as I woke up at three realizing that I hadn't brought the checks out at the meeting and therefore was a useless human being.
I have so many books from NetGalley, I'm never going to go to the library again. Our Crowd is still good, but made a long digression to detail every step in the Reconstruction-era portion of the Seligmans' financial story, which was a bit painful. Probably ten percent of the book at least, all about money deals in the 1870s.
Other things: I mailed out signed complimentary copies of RWD to all the museums where I patterned, and I contacted the Cornell Costume Collection again. I already sent two emails to the address on the website and one message to the Facebook page, but I found an email they posted on FB a few weeks ago and sent the message to that one. They're bizarrely hard to get ahold of.
