What are your plans for this summer? Will you be teaching?- Doing research?- Chilling out?
I looked back at the 2020 Summer Plans thread and noticed that I planned to put in a garden. That didn't happen. I mainly do container gardening. Maybe this summer?
I'm not sure if I'll be teaching yet- enrollment is abysmally low. If my classes are cancelled, then I'll be gardening, exploring, cooking and hopefully taking time to relax and reset my mind. What about you?
Im visiting my parents' house now. My mom had surgery on her dominant hand, so we are here to do a little to help out for a few days so that she doesnt disobey the dcotor's orders too much! We are leaving on Tuesday and my brother's family comes over on Friday. (We have not yet offered, but I had always made my plans open enough taht I can stay until Thursday.
We are going to the national convention of Better Investing in Dallas in mid June. My bride and I attended one a few years ago in Orlando. She needs a refresher course on the techniques. I will try to get into the Intermediate section. There are some fine points with their computer programs that I will benefit from.
(For anyone old enough to remember, this is the group that supports Investment clubs. I learned about the group ages ago from The Beardstown Ladies).
I am then scheduled to teach 2 online classes. They will require a lot of work, but this year they will be limited to 7 weeks. Last year it was for 12 weeks!
This will be my last year for one of the classes for sure. So next year I will teach a maximum of one of the classes.
Next year is already setting up to be a noteworthy year, as it will include a 2 week trip to Alaska.
This year's Alaska trip was cancelled in January when my bride and my travel companion decided that they were not comfortable going this year. (In January when the Covid cases were peaking was when we were scheduled to pay, so no trip this summer).
Teaching, writing, clearing, walking in the early AM.
Pretty much as usual!
M.
Surviving teaching in the short summer term and job hunting.
Teaching an online class for the first few weeks of the summer, then focusing on research. Lots of travel too, including two international trips. I'm also planning to relax, watch movies, read books, and to stay fit.
Surgery this week will be followed by 8+ weeks of sitting with my foot up and iced.
I'll be teaching 2 online comp sections during June and July; another might materialize, which would be great.
Tending to/supervising care of the gardens should lead to lots of squash, tomatoes, and peppers.
Over the next couple of days, I need to do some badly needed dusting and decluttering. I'll also make plans for Christmas gifts and some other projects to (hopefully) sell, which will also help me get the yarn monster that's taken over our living room under a little better control!
Don't be jealous of my fabulously exciting life.
Riding herd on our first face-to-face summer library program in two years.
QuoteSurgery this week will be followed by 8+ weeks of sitting with my foot up and iced.
Here, we can not use sick pay in the summer. There is a caveat that IF your summer class has started, and you have an accident of illness, you can, but not for surgery.
My best friend (now deceased) had offered to have knee replacement in the summer, but only if he could use sick pay as he didnt want to take a cut in pay. (He was a 30 year + employee with over 3 year's worth of sick pay at the time). They said no.
He scheduled it for the weeks after Spring Break instead.
I learned from that! IF I have to PLAN a surgery, it will be in Fall or Spring. I have too much sick leave, and I have no desire to further subsidize the university by using my precious time off to recover from surgery, IF I have a choice in the matter! (Also, by summer time I m usually out of my health care savings account, so waiting until after 9/1 would be helpful to my wallet!)
But I do wish you a quick recovery! It sounds painful to have foot surgery!
Quote from: apl68 on May 23, 2022, 10:14:47 AM
Riding herd on our first face-to-face summer library program in two years.
Hope it goes well.
Those are important to kids and adults alike.
M.
Quote from: AmLitHist on May 23, 2022, 09:30:46 AM
Surgery this week will be followed by 8+ weeks of sitting with my foot up and iced.
I'll be teaching 2 online comp sections during June and July; another might materialize, which would be great.
Tending to/supervising care of the gardens should lead to lots of squash, tomatoes, and peppers.
Over the next couple of days, I need to do some badly needed dusting and decluttering. I'll also make plans for Christmas gifts and some other projects to (hopefully) sell, which will also help me get the yarn monster that's taken over our living room under a little better control!
Don't be jealous of my fabulously exciting life.
I hope it all goes well. Do you have someone to tend to you and a little bell to ring? ;)
I completely forgot about renewing Lightning Junior's expiring visa, so the cultural & language immersion trip to my favorite countries is not going to happen.
I was really bumming about it, until I found a seriously great deal on a travel itinerary to an exotic island paradise.
Somehow, I need to get everything done that needs to get done, so I don't worry about a to-do list when I'm sitting on a beach sipping over-priced watered down alcohol.
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
Wow. You did it.
M.
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 25, 2022, 08:21:14 PM
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
That's it?
Surely, you could resign in a much more flamboyant way? Or, at least think of a creative way to resign and put it on a Fantasy Resignation thread.
Quote from: lightning on May 25, 2022, 09:19:31 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 25, 2022, 08:21:14 PM
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
That's it?
Surely, you could resign in a much more flamboyant way? Or, at least think of a creative way to resign and put it on a Fantasy Resignation thread.
Keep it a fantasy. Giving the middle finger to the place the rear view mirror sometimes tempts us on the way out. Social media is not kind to those who choose this route. The last thing you want to explain at the new place is how you left the old place.
FYI - All about creative ways to screw over bullies and creeps if it can't be traced.
That must be so satisfying, Vkw10! Congratulations!
I'm probably going to be a homeowner by the end of this summer, one way or another. Kind of wish it were in a different market, but oh well.
QuoteAs soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
Congratulations on your new job!
However, please check on your university policy about health insurance if you are not starting until the Fall.
In my current job, as well as my prior job, IF you told HR that you would not be returning in the Fall, they immediately canceled your health insurance. (It is not exactly their fault - in my current state, it is a state law! The state does not pay its share of he summer health insurance if you are not returning without regard to the fact that YOU already have!)
As an alternative, you might tell the dean that you are no longer chair - effective immediately. Then on August 1 or so give them the notice that you are leaving and in that letter tell them that you WOULD have given notice in May IF not for the fact that it would have cost you several thousand dollars in health care costs. Or just tell them that the job came up and you could not resist.
Congrats, Vkw10!
Thanks for the good wishes, all--surgery is in about 5 hours. I'll definitely make extensive use of the bell: I truly plan to get every bit of service and pampering out of this that I can! :-)
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 25, 2022, 08:21:14 PM
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
Congrats!
Quote from: AmLitHist on May 26, 2022, 07:24:23 AM
Congrats, Vkw10!
Thanks for the good wishes, all--surgery is in about 5 hours. I'll definitely make extensive use of the bell: I truly plan to get every bit of service and pampering out of this that I can! :-)
Sending you good wishes for the surgery and a speedy recovery, AmLitHist.
Teaching one face-to-face class, gardening, and trying to avoid going to campus most days.
Taking two weeks off this month, post semester, just to be outside doing outdoor things, and then a trip northeast in July for a "fun" workshop, which is unrelated to work. I've been looking forward to this trip, but the gas prices are going to mean that I'll have to cut down on other stuff.
Quote from: Antiphon1 on May 25, 2022, 09:45:14 PM
Quote from: lightning on May 25, 2022, 09:19:31 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 25, 2022, 08:21:14 PM
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
That's it?
Surely, you could resign in a much more flamboyant way? Or, at least think of a creative way to resign and put it on a Fantasy Resignation thread.
Keep it a fantasy. Giving the middle finger to the place the rear view mirror sometimes tempts us on the way out. Social media is not kind to those who choose this route. The last thing you want to explain at the new place is how you left the old place.
FYI - All about creative ways to screw over bullies and creeps if it can't be traced.
Who said anything about giving a a middle finger, metaphorical or otherwise?
You can be creative & fun about resigning without giving the middle finger.
Here's one. My university HR has this dumb policy about resignation letters and that they have to to be hard copy. IOW, you can't just email your resignation. Sooo, I'm printing up a large outdoor banner for my resignation letter (which has only date & "Dear Lighting U. "I quit. Dr. Lightning") and hanging it in the early morning outside of the main admin building, with a small note in the lower right corner that reads "Have fun stuffing this into my Manlia folder."
Or, I'll send an "I quit" cameo video from the Soup Nazi.
Quote from: lightning on May 27, 2022, 10:34:47 AM
Quote from: Antiphon1 on May 25, 2022, 09:45:14 PM
Quote from: lightning on May 25, 2022, 09:19:31 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 25, 2022, 08:21:14 PM
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
That's it?
Surely, you could resign in a much more flamboyant way? Or, at least think of a creative way to resign and put it on a Fantasy Resignation thread.
Keep it a fantasy. Giving the middle finger to the place the rear view mirror sometimes tempts us on the way out. Social media is not kind to those who choose this route. The last thing you want to explain at the new place is how you left the old place.
FYI - All about creative ways to screw over bullies and creeps if it can't be traced.
Who said anything about giving a a middle finger, metaphorical or otherwise?
You can be creative & fun about resigning without giving the middle finger.
Here's one. My university HR has this dumb policy about resignation letters and that they have to to be hard copy. IOW, you can't just email your resignation. Sooo, I'm printing up a large outdoor banner for my resignation letter (which has only date & "Dear Lighting U. "I quit. Dr. Lightning") and hanging it in the early morning outside of the main admin building, with a small note in the lower right corner that reads "Have fun stuffing this into my Manlia folder."
Or, I'll send an "I quit" cameo video from the Soup Nazi.
Hilarious.
Quote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on May 27, 2022, 10:57:33 AM
Quote from: lightning on May 27, 2022, 10:34:47 AM
Quote from: Antiphon1 on May 25, 2022, 09:45:14 PM
Quote from: lightning on May 25, 2022, 09:19:31 PM
Quote from: Vkw10 on May 25, 2022, 08:21:14 PM
As soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
That's it?
Surely, you could resign in a much more flamboyant way? Or, at least think of a creative way to resign and put it on a Fantasy Resignation thread.
Keep it a fantasy. Giving the middle finger to the place the rear view mirror sometimes tempts us on the way out. Social media is not kind to those who choose this route. The last thing you want to explain at the new place is how you left the old place.
FYI - All about creative ways to screw over bullies and creeps if it can't be traced.
Who said anything about giving a a middle finger, metaphorical or otherwise?
You can be creative & fun about resigning without giving the middle finger.
Here's one. My university HR has this dumb policy about resignation letters and that they have to to be hard copy. IOW, you can't just email your resignation. Sooo, I'm printing up a large outdoor banner for my resignation letter (which has only date & "Dear Lighting U. "I quit. Dr. Lightning") and hanging it in the early morning outside of the main admin building, with a small note in the lower right corner that reads "Have fun stuffing this into my Manlia folder."
Or, I'll send an "I quit" cameo video from the Soup Nazi.
Hilarious.
Now that's a leaving I can get behind. Pun intended.
I may or may not have left a sneaky, stinky gift in a particularly heinous employer's office. I understand it took some time to find and eradicate the odor.
Oh, dear.
Not everyone likes Roquefort cheese....
M.
Quote from: mamselle on May 27, 2022, 03:54:41 PM
Oh, dear.
Not everyone likes Roquefort cheese....
M.
Ummm, no. Think Flipper gone so, so bad.
Quote from: clean on May 26, 2022, 07:06:00 AM
QuoteAs soon as offer letter is signed and received, I'll notify CrazyNewDean that it's time to find another department chair and start packing my office.
Congratulations on your new job!
However, please check on your university policy about health insurance if you are not starting until the Fall.
In my current job, as well as my prior job, IF you told HR that you would not be returning in the Fall, they immediately canceled your health insurance. (It is not exactly their fault - in my current state, it is a state law! The state does not pay its share of he summer health insurance if you are not returning without regard to the fact that YOU already have!)
As an alternative, you might tell the dean that you are no longer chair - effective immediately. Then on August 1 or so give them the notice that you are leaving and in that letter tell them that you WOULD have given notice in May IF not for the fact that it would have cost you several thousand dollars in health care costs. Or just tell them that the job came up and you could not resist.
Twelve month contract, so not an issue for me. I'm starting new position in August 1, so I just need to resign effective July 8th so they pay me for the holiday. :-)
Quote from: ergative on May 25, 2022, 11:23:42 PM
That must be so satisfying, Vkw10! Congratulations!
I'm probably going to be a homeowner by the end of this summer, one way or another. Kind of wish it were in a different market, but oh well.
Not an easy market to buy, so good luck! 🍀
Quote from: AmLitHist on May 26, 2022, 07:24:23 AM
Congrats, Vkw10!
Thanks for the good wishes, all--surgery is in about 5 hours. I'll definitely make extensive use of the bell: I truly plan to get every bit of service and pampering out of this that I can! :-)
Hope the surgery went well and you're on the road to recovery!
I've officially been granted tenure, so going to budget in a little extra celebratory time this summer, in addition to plans already mentioned above
Whoop-de-doo!!
This calls for a party thread....
M.
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on May 30, 2022, 07:37:33 PM
I've officially been granted tenure, so going to budget in a little extra celebratory time this summer, in addition to plans already mentioned above
Congrats!
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on May 30, 2022, 07:37:33 PM
I've officially been granted tenure, so going to budget in a little extra celebratory time this summer, in addition to plans already mentioned above
Congrats!
Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on May 30, 2022, 07:37:33 PM
I've officially been granted tenure, so going to budget in a little extra celebratory time this summer, in addition to plans already mentioned above
Wonderful news!
Thanks! I do feel the burden having been lifted off my shoulders.
Congratulations, Sun_Worshiper!