Work Update

Just have to get through this crazy week. Things at home are mostly normal, but work is a bit nuts this week which makes me a bit stressed at home.  Lots of meetings (the one today was from 9-4) in addition to having to maintain my regular duties - I've hardly been in my office.  Then I took off tomorrow weeks ago, for Caroline's field day, before knowing the craziness of this week which adds to my stress of accomplishing everything and then on Thursday I'm out all day to attend a training session on the academic advising module in Peoplesoft that I will be taking over in my new position.  Thankfully, Friday will be a normal day in my soon to be old office.

June 24 is my official move date to my new office.  As it gets closer, it hardly seems possible that I will be completely relinquishing about 90% of my current duties for a new position.  My new supervisor, who I totally click with, has been involving me in everything which is such a change from my current supervisor. I even got to pick out my new office's paint color (a light grayish blue called "Upward") and had some say in the carpet.  (Not something I ever expected.)  And then this week in the meetings I've been in to negotiate the future of our MBA program, I've been working with my new supervisor and the Registrar (her supervisor) and I can't even tell you how much I like him! I really couldn't be moving into a better office.

It will probably be rocky at first.  I won't move into my real office until mid-July because there are people in my current office that have to move and then they have to, ahem, do asbestos removal (um, YAY?) and then repaint/recarpet.  So I will be in a temporary office and probably not have fully assigned tasks right away and will be answering a lot of questions and forwarding a lot of emails and phone calls back to admissions since my contact information won't change, just my job/title.

And after being in my current office for 7 1/2 years, there will definitely be changes. I will miss 2 of the women I've worked with very much - I feel like they've been my work mothers - always checking on me and making sure I get out of the door on time.  They've always been so sweet to me and my kids - it will be weird not seeing them every day.

I will be so happy when it's Thursday night and the weekend is upon us again.  The heat is coming again and I want to take the kids swimming!  It's summer, for pete's sake!

Yay Job!

I can't remember how much I've talked about the possible changes at work here on my blog.  I try to, for the most part, refrain from talking about work here except other than to utter words of being busy.  I generally don't have much to complain about (other than a little stress) but for the past year, our office has been under the microscope of our provost for a restructure.  We had no idea what that meant.  I even started looking for a new job.  (Was practically offered that job but then turned it down - I liked the work I would have been doing but didn't feel as though the office was a good fit for me and the commute would have been longer.) 

But today, we finally got a word from the provost about our restructure.  And it turns out that my trusting the process and waiting worked!  I'm going to be moving out of graduate admissions and into the Registrar's Office and continuing to do my favorite parts of my current job in addition to some additional responsibilities that I won't bore you with (but I'm excited about!).   I feel as though someone has handed me the moon and I don't know what to do with it!  I'm just thrilled.  Thrilled that both the Registrar's Office wanted me that much and that my current supervisor wanted me too, and I got to pick!   (Bracken, I'll fill you in on all the details via email since you won't be bored by all the details!) 

I'm just thrilled.  Thrilled.  Probably won't happen for a few more months and big change is coming but it's good change.  I've wanted to work in the Registrar's Office for a long time and now it's happening.  I never thought I'd get this excited about work.  There's a lot of potential for growth for me in this position and office and can see myself getting settled in there for a long time - which is exactly what I want. 

Total winning!

It's Still January....

At least it feels like it at work in terms of my work load.  The past few days I haven't been eating lunch until after 2pm because I'm so busy (I eat breakfast at 6:30am).  I'm not even hungry because I am so overloaded.  I never understood how people did that - you know, skip a meal because they were busy.  But, now, I'm pretty used to it.  And with that, it's back to work....

Grinding

Back at work and things are busy busy. Classes start in 3 weeks so the crunch is on as well as the fact that I'm cleaning up messes that were made in my absence. Seriously, is the stress associated with cleaning up vacation messes worth it? Yes, but barely. I only had 80 emails when I got back, which surprised me. Although it's "off" season so I'm sure that calmed it considerably. But there were 96 emails in the community email pool.

By tomorrow I should be caught back up and then I'm off again on Friday since Jay and I are piecing together childcare this next week since my IL's are going on a trip. Big thanks to my mom, brother, and sister for helping us out in the crunch!