Some better

If I am driven out of academia, it will actually be the creeping increase in administrivia that does it, not so much the students.

I felt a lot better after teaching one of my majors lab courses this afternoon. And it looks at this point that the TA will not need firing, and in fact the reason I was lead to believe they would be deserving of such was based on a lie from a more highly placed person.

It's a pity that certain people who are more highly placed than I am are so full of suck and are making it hard for me to do my work effectively and be as cheerful as I might be.

It's also a pity that they seem to have adopted the Congressional Model of increasing their interference in the lives of those whom they are supposed to serve. (In fact, it's a LOT like Congress with certain folks: it really is as if they believe the people exist to serve them.)

It's especially a pity that certain people get their little spheres of power, and then look around and ask themselves, "Who can I harass today? Whose life can I make difficult?"

Also, part of it is that yesterday was just the day of computer snafu. First, something went wrong with my copy of Acrobat Reader (I don't have a real need for the whole Adobe suite, so I just use the free download) and I could not open .pdf files. I tried reinstalling without success. I finally did a "hard reboot" and got it to work. Then, just as I was ready to start on the work I needed to do, our internet connection crashed.

It's the little crap- the stuff that interferes with my work when I'm ready and eager and have time to work -that just does me in.

Hopefully tomorrow - my other lighter day this week - will be uneventful and I'll be able to get a bunch of work done.