School, Sleepovers, and Snakes on a Plane

School starts tomorrow at the college. It is bound to be a very interesting day as students are looking for classes that have been changed to half way across campus. We had a our big beginning of the year opening day ceremonies on Friday. I skipped the big hoopla. I did sign in, retrieve my name tag and Cuesta badge of Courage (a dumb button they were handing out to everyone), and grabbed a bagel and left the building. I went to resume my packing duties in the lab. Seriously, you would think I would be done with all this packing by now, but I haven't done much in the way of my own work for the past two weeks. I was helping geology with their move since theirs was more imperative to get done. I did not help physics. They all showed up on the final days running around like nuts and I had no empathy for them at all. NONE. They did piss me off with the fact they took my packing boxes though. They were supposed to order their own, but none of them had their shit together enough to manage that task. Grrrrrr. I am now forced to listen to their physics lab tech (part timer who nary showed her head this summer at all) bitch about her new office space and how the building was fine before and how mad she is that the other people threw so much good stuff away etc, etc, etc. She was the subject of my Piffle write up quite some time back. I am getting really close to the point of telling her I don't give a flying rats F*&k about her problems in physics. I doubt I ever will tell her that, but I really wish I would. I just don't have the meaness in me to do it. I think she has started to notice that I don't really talk to her much anymore at all and that I am somewhat short with her when she does come around now. Fortunately, our paths will cross less and less with this remodel as she will be in a completely different building in the interim. Hooray!

I also paid my respects to the job hire situation for our satellite campus. Out of the 17 applicants we chose to interview 4, with two alternates. Well, the first four people accepted the interview. The interview consisted of an oral portion, and they also had been given two problems to solve when they were called to notify them of the interview; and with this information solved, they had to prepare two solutions for the interview panel. I had no idea how informative this demo part of the interview was because I had no problem when I did it eons ago. Some people look great on paper, and do okay on the oral interview portion, but when they do the demo it is obvious they have no idea how to make a solution at all! It can be pretty scary. Fortunately we use dummy chemicals so all was safe.

I have to get this posted...I started this on the 20th of August and never got back to finish it so I am posting it nonetheless.