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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

During the college faculty general assembly today the directors (and some of the typical vocal members) I noticed were bolder in telling the dean about what they think should be done compared to her announcements.

I also noticed that when the dean is flustered or fishing for reasons to bring up as counterarguments, she talks longer. It is too bad that it may be too late to use this information, for myself at least.

I do not know anything definite yet. My meeting with the brother president is tomorrow, a week after I have sent a letter to the dean on the suggestion of the human resources head, who was a former student affairs dean in the main campus and therefore the closest thing here to my mentor.

But tell me if this sequence of events does not seem weird to you. First the HR head calls me in for a meeting, asking me for my plans.

I tell her in all honesty that it is the same as last year, which is to wait for administration to decide and just make plans for either eventuality. I even told her that it was the reason I got the side business in the first place.

I also admitted to her that I was not consulted before being appointed, but I just took it anyway.

In that scenario they could not blame me for not being up to the job because I did not ask for it.

So the HR head told me that this year I should be more proactive, and tell the administration what I want instead of waiting for the axe to fall or for the hand to be extended. But what I would write would be up to me.

I could have said in the letter that I quit. That way if they were planning to fire me (or more passively allow my contract to expire) I would have the document to prove that I preempted it, that it was my choice not theirs.

But if I did give a letter saying I wanted to continue, then the ball would be in their court again, which is the same as last year.

So guess what? I chose to leave the decision to them again, although I knew this time around the odds are not in my favor.

I promised the HR head that I would be able to give the letter after the band fest, which was the fifteenth.

During the weekend they had an extended operations council workshop that I was not able to attend due to being expected to be at the band fest, not that I went there either, but that is another story.

On the morning of the fifteenth the HR head even told me that she told the dean about my plan and that my letter was expected.

So I was surprised when I was told by the administrative assistant of the college that she was told my letter should be addressed to the HR head.

Two days after, I received a letter from the dean saying it was not up to her but she would just give her evaluation and recommendation to the HR head. But I knew it was her, the HR head and the brother president who signed the appointment letter, and that the three of them would decide once again.

Session 3021 has to cut the tale short at this point. Class dismissed.