Today is the first day of our new year. In celebration, I spent about a half-hour cleaning my desk. I brought in some swiffer pads and dusted everything and then tossed a bunch of crap. If I get really motivated, I may actually go through desk drawers. My office is by far one of the neatest ones because I hate clutter, but things had gotten a little out of hand.
Yesterday I went to a meeting on evaluation which may sound boring, but it was a great meeting and we’re going to pilot a new evaluation on one of my courses. Hooray.
Trying to get to the meeting was a nightmare. Something caused traffic to come to a stand-still on the interstate so I had to get off and travel on a side street. Then a douchebag with a Shaggy (as in Scooby snack) goatee decided he’d rather be in my lane–like in my lane on top of me. I had to swerve and when I flipped him the bird and called him an asshole, he never once acknowledged he nearly caused an accident. We traveled quite a while together and he NEVER got into the lane. Douchebag hipster.
At the end of the day, I tried to get on the same interstate and a truck had flipped over on it’s side in the merge lane. AWESOME. I ended up staying on the ramp and looping back to take the long way home.
Yesterday was also the last day for all the people my organization had to lay-off. For some people it seemed like they’d forgotten because they never acknowledged that yesterday was THE DAY and for others the afternoon was spent talking with colleagues who were leaving. A little sad on both accounts.
Then to top off the day that wasn’t so good, I passed a house fire less than a mile from my house.
The house fire was a family of a student in my class this past year. The kids were home with Grandma and had to be evacuated by a neighbor who witnessed the fire! As you can imagine, they are all a bit shell shocked!
The place is shot. You’ll see it this weekend. We were really worried because they used to do babysitting there.