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I'm sorry I haven't written much lately. Call it my usual February blahs, call it PMS, call it birthday ----
OK, fine. You want to know how the last few weeks have gone? This is what just happened.
Phone: ring
Me: Center for Teaching Excellence, this is Whitney.
Phone: Yes, I'm sorry I really loved the class I came to last week but I'm not going to make it tonight. I'm calling from the hospital with food poisoning.
Me: (Trying to be polite, since "hospital") Ma'am, are you sure we're the department having the event? We have an event on Monday, but not tonight.
Phone: Well, it's the Cooper Square people (other building which sometimes hosts events). Can't you just call over there and tell them I'm not coming?
Me: (Thinking "hospital!" with all my strength) Well, let me try and look it up. (This proves unsuccessful, but the search to pull up a number of events hosted by the Continuing Ed school at Cooper Square -- and people looking for those events are ALWAYS calling us by mistake) Ma'am, this wouldn't happen to be an event connected to the School of Continuing and Professional Studies?
Phone: No, it's -- well, yes, it's SCPS as we call it. (It's what I call it,too, but a lot of people call it Continuing Ed, and get confused at the acronym).
Me: Well here's the main number. I can transfer you over there.
This is what the last two weeks have been like around here. I sit down to do one simple thing and end up having my time wasted on something I shouldn't have to be dealing with. Or you know, a speaker forgets to show up to an event at which 70 people are waiting, and I fall off the stage in front of all of them. Or that panelists have dropped out of our Monday event because they forgot they have to be out of state on Monday (we arranged these panels months ago). And Interim Boss has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of all this, leaving a part-time employee and two support staff to deal with the fallout and necessary rescheduling.
Though at least Interim Boss did not receive a mysterious empty envelope addressed to him in cutout newspaper letters with the return address "Herpes Test Results." This happened to the boss of another office on my floor today (he's got something of a reputation as a sleaze who hits on women half his age, so we have reason to think someone's trying to embarass him).
Which is all just a way of saying, please don't ask me to explain my recent absence. It just gets me all worked up again.
OK, fine. You want to know how the last few weeks have gone? This is what just happened.
Phone: ring
Me: Center for Teaching Excellence, this is Whitney.
Phone: Yes, I'm sorry I really loved the class I came to last week but I'm not going to make it tonight. I'm calling from the hospital with food poisoning.
Me: (Trying to be polite, since "hospital") Ma'am, are you sure we're the department having the event? We have an event on Monday, but not tonight.
Phone: Well, it's the Cooper Square people (other building which sometimes hosts events). Can't you just call over there and tell them I'm not coming?
Me: (Thinking "hospital!" with all my strength) Well, let me try and look it up. (This proves unsuccessful, but the search to pull up a number of events hosted by the Continuing Ed school at Cooper Square -- and people looking for those events are ALWAYS calling us by mistake) Ma'am, this wouldn't happen to be an event connected to the School of Continuing and Professional Studies?
Phone: No, it's -- well, yes, it's SCPS as we call it. (It's what I call it,too, but a lot of people call it Continuing Ed, and get confused at the acronym).
Me: Well here's the main number. I can transfer you over there.
This is what the last two weeks have been like around here. I sit down to do one simple thing and end up having my time wasted on something I shouldn't have to be dealing with. Or you know, a speaker forgets to show up to an event at which 70 people are waiting, and I fall off the stage in front of all of them. Or that panelists have dropped out of our Monday event because they forgot they have to be out of state on Monday (we arranged these panels months ago). And Interim Boss has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of all this, leaving a part-time employee and two support staff to deal with the fallout and necessary rescheduling.
Though at least Interim Boss did not receive a mysterious empty envelope addressed to him in cutout newspaper letters with the return address "Herpes Test Results." This happened to the boss of another office on my floor today (he's got something of a reputation as a sleaze who hits on women half his age, so we have reason to think someone's trying to embarass him).
Which is all just a way of saying, please don't ask me to explain my recent absence. It just gets me all worked up again.
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