Bullets

Let’s try to make today’s entry a little more interesting than yesterday’s, shall we? The day went like this:

• I woke before my alarm which I only ever set for Tuesdays because that’s when my cleaning lady comes.


• My cleaning lady was late because one end of our street has a huge hole in it, surrounded by large, earth-moving machines and she had to go around and come up the other way.


• I had a delightful bubble bath which I did not want to leave.


• I drove the courtesy car back to my garagiste only to find that the Volvo is not ready yet. This is going to be one mother fucker of an expensive bill. When are we going to get rid of this money sink already?


• I returned home, paid off my cleaning lady, told her not to come next week because Hubby and I will not be here, and had lunch with Little Princess, who came home mid-morning after being away last night.


• I went to the university and bought a red binder because I cannot find my own red binder which contains the exercises I give my students and a few other things that I desperately need for teaching, seeing as how I can’t find them on the computer either. I think I’ll be tearing the reading room apart looking for it.


• I practised.


• Choir practice consisted of learning two more Messiah choruses. I feel like my voice is finally getting stronger and I’m not yodeling and crackling in the upper break anymore, or at least not as much.


• I came home and found a message on my machine from Lise, my belly-dancing teacher, called her back and she told me that there is a class on Mondays at 8 p.m. which I might find appropriate. So I will do that.


• After supper Hubby and I watched another episode of TPB, the one with the cougar. It was really sweet.

I also had a very strange internet correspondence with our department chair which went something like this:


To: Elgan
Subject: student drops

L. H. dropped but at the same time K. H. (in choir) added so I just made a switch.

Chair


This guy has a doctorate and I was not put on this earth to make his life easy. This was my response:


Chair:

I have no idea what you’re trying to tell me in this email. Please clarify.

Thanks.

Elgan


He responded thusly (note the snippiness at the end):


Further to the list I sent you on the weekend, you will notice that you were assigned L. H. as a student. Today she dropped. Since lessons have not started yet, i figured that instead of following the rotation and assigning K. H. who registered today to the next available tutor (not you), I thought that since you were “down one student” in the rotation due to the drop, I thought it best to replace the void with a student who registered in the course the same day.

I would be happy to place this new student with the next person in the rotation if you feel that you have too many new students. Is this clear now? Kindly let me know ASAP

Chair.


I might add that in both emails, he misspelled the name of the new student he’s assigned me. He also neglected to tell me what course number she was enrolled in, which I had to verify when I accepted the offer, which went like this:


Chair:

Yes, thank you, this is perfectly clear. I have no problems with taking on this student. I am presuming that she is also a MUS 070 enrollee, as are the others.

Sorry about the misunderstanding.

Elgan


It turns out she is actually a regular first-year student, which makes a difference. The 070 course mentioned above is only 45-minute lessons, while the other is a whole hour. I also discovered that this girl is the one who requires a motorized vehicle to get around, and I teach in the basement. I am hoping that this doesn’t create a problem. I’ll soon find out.

And that was my day.



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