Friday, October 29, 2004

Well, I finished my self-evaluation from the past year and handed it in.

That's always a huge relief. Partly because I'm disorganized enough that I spend a frantic half-hour or so searching my office for some letter from some person that supports some claim I made, and partly because I usually get a major case of "I-suck-itis" doing these - there are so many things I COULD have done but didn't, so many things I could have done better.

This is, I will say, the first year I don't feel like going home and crying after I did it - I think having tenure helps, because I don't have that little panic in the back of my head about "have I done enough to fulfill the rather illusory criteria for gaining tenure?"

I also got paid.
I also finally got reimbursed for my summer conference travels - and they even paid me a per diem I didn't ask for (I went and deposited that check jolly quick, before any minds could change).

Now I am faced with the question: sort biomass bags or just go home? Or sort a few bags, then go home and try to do the workout that almost gave me an asthma attack when it was so humid? Or go do my grocery shopping? Or go home and grade exams?

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