Wednesday and have been overwhelmed both with information and lack of
information. No one is helping me through the process of getting
hired-- HR took my paperwork in two minutes and sent me on my way. No
word about anything else I needed to do. Later my colleagues were
asking if I got the email about the meeting on Friday. (Email? Meeting
on Friday?) Oh, and they gave me the wrong room for one other meeting.
That made for a lovely wild goose chase in the 90 degree heat. Where
do I get books? What classes am I teaching? How do I get into the
classroom if it's locked? And many more questions are getting answered
as I think of them and hunt someone down to help me. That has been
incredibly frustrating. Also difficult has been getting used to being
around people. (!) I love being alone at home, and have enjoyed much
of the last three months of solitude. Lots of people, new people, all
day, wears me out! But today is the last day of meetings, and
hopefully my ID will get created and I can get my stuff into my office
just fine. We shall see.
The very bad morning is today. I was just woken up by a sharp pinch
on my bottom. A big ant was biting me. Not even kidding. I felt it
and squished it and threw it. I was sleeping in the guest room so I
went into our bedroom to complain to Brad, but he was in the bathroom
killing a large roach in our shower. I waited to congratulate him and
then went back to the guest room to survey the situation. Lo and
behold, as I pulled back the covers, there were more than 30 ants
crawling all over my bed, pillows, and blankets, where I had been
asleep not five minutes ago. The floor between the bed and window had
many more little buggers. ICK. So I just sprayed the dickens out of
the floor and baseboards, and hopefully things will be better.
It's rainy season here and the bugs are looking for dry ground. It's
not that I keep a dirty house or anything, I promise. Everyone else
is having the same issues. Doesn't make me feel much better about
sleeping in an ant-ridden bed.
Brad just yelled to me that he just killed six more in our closet. I
am SO calling the exterminator today.
Hope your morning is better than mine so far.
1 comment:
From one part-time instructor to another, it will get better at the school. They seem to not know how to relay information to part-time people, yet over half their staff is part time. Don't people know that they need to have a checklist of what each new hire needs to be told. It's amazing how some organizations actually work when they have such communication break downs. But I can tell you that it will get better and once you get to know people you will know from whom you can get information.
Regarding the ants...YIKES!! That's all I can say.
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