I got called a "goddess" this morning.

(And by a MAN, baby < /austinpowers >)

One of the classrooms where we do a lot of teaching - I do not know why, but its temperature-control system has NEVER worked. (this is a building built in 2000, with supposedly state-of-the-art stuff, etc.)

It was a veritable Black Hole of Cold this morning. Seriously. I swan it was 45 degrees in there.

So I moved my early class to another room that was empty at that hour (and I will probably move it permanently - it is a nicer room and it has a coffeemaker. I promised the students I'd ask the owner of the coffeemaker if they could use it, provided they clean it out).

But my colleague who teaches after me - he had to move to a little-used room. And the computer-projection-screen was not working. So he happened to see me in the hall and asked me to take a look at it (I'm kind of known as the "computer whisperer." Honestly I am not that knowledgeable about them. But I think because I do THINK before I push buttons, more often than not I get things to work.)

And I "fixed" the projector (well, seriously, all I did was hold down the "on" button for longer than the chap had, until the thing lit up and said it was "initiating startup sequence."

Still, there's something good about being known as a person who can make things happen like that, I think.