Category: Life at the Office
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Pensive
I forget how bittersweet these last days of the semester can be. One of the things I regularly tell students is that “our best view of you is watching your butt cross the stage at Commencement, because that means we’ve done our job.” We faculty know that we are charged with these students for only…
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Live applause
Just after 4 p.m. yesterday, I heard live applause in a concert setting for the time in over a year. And I almost wept. The choral concert at Webster University took place outdoors. Under brilliant blue sky. In temperate weather. With minimal wind. With our masks on, both on stage and in the audience. With…
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79 days
Now with 79 days to go as department chair, I can feel some of the squeeze dissipating. I realized this past week that I have spent most of the last 17 years with one eye always on some future goal — promotion and tenure, next year’s budget, recruiting goals, raising funds for a forthcoming project,…
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That’s a wrap
5 p.m. Friday, 11 December 2020. That’s a wrap on the Fall 2020 semester. Grades are posted. All student meetings are complete. And we are all exhausted. Zoomed out. Ready to rest tired eyes and weary brains.
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Home office
I realize that I am fortunate to have a home office space where I can work, and then attempt to leave the daily of my administrative life behind.
NATS Central Region Governor 