Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

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

Continuing where I left off yesterday, in my letter to the dean, which I will post sometime in the next few days because I am not at the office computer right now, I told her that in general I could attribute the problems of the current school year to both me and the students adjusting to the heightened expectations of the administration from both the Office of Student Affairs and the student leaders.

Of course there was a promise there to do better and be more prepared at the start of the new school year - IF.

But during the faculty general assembly yesterday, it was pretty obvious to me that it was a hatchet job.

I was asked to present the activities of the office of student affairs for the entire school year, and it seems all the problems I presented or they saw were traced back to a lack on my part, as if I were a mind reader or at least a disaster preparedness and prevention office ready for every possible mishap.

I even went to the HR head to unload exactly how I felt and how I believed the dice would roll, but of course she could not preempt what the brother president was going to say, even going so far as to say she only wrote the paperwork based on what was passed on to her. In other words, it was a hand washing.

I do not blame her for that, but I do blame the dean, who everyone knows is my immediate superior.

Besides, one thing I told the HR head is that the rumor around the college faculty is that if the dean does not talk to you about your employment status, then it is a sure sign you will not be renewed.

Because if the others had known what was coming, would they have been surprised to get the last day letter?

At the very least, they should talk to the dean about that, or at most realize that part of the problem is how the dean handles things herself.

But moving on to today, I was there early to talk to the brother president, and in fact even talked about the proposed student attire before getting to the matter at hand, where he closed the door.

For the best of the school, he said. High expectations of full time administrators, he also mentioned, something I had already heard from him before about the termination of the previous guidance counselor.

So I knew the axe was coming, and I give him credit for softening the blow, and making sure I was alright before I left his office.

There were a lot of other things discussed, but I do not want to write them here right now because even though my supposed strengths were mentioned, in the end they still were not enough.

Still, given that I have approximately two months before I have to leave, I know that several times in the next few weeks I will be looking at some things around me and cannot help but feel this will be the last times I will sit here and it will be missed, although at the same time I am cherishing other perennial problems (more than I have before) I will not have to deal with anymore.

There is so much more to say on the subject, but for once I am thankful for the one page limit I have set for myself.

Session 3023 does not want to be sad or for this writing to b sad. Class dismissed.