First, this is nothing health-related and I am thankful that I and my family are all okay. Merely work drama but trying to manage so I don't end up with the stress-related illness I got the last time I chaired.
Today is day five of my term is department chair. yesterday I learned via our website that the past chair (who the dean told had to work with all TT and tenured faculty to make hires) had made an appointment I was unaware of. This is to cover for a resignation a year ago, but in the wrong rank (person in new appointment can't do academic advising or senior theses; it is a lecturer position, multi-year). So thus begins the second year of covering for all this work (I am in the closest subfield as the resignation).
Meanwhile there is also still an open adjunct position for this fall, and the chair botched the negotiations with a high profile person we could have offered a lectureship (dean was amenable) and didn't want to offer enough so now here I am looking for someone to cover a very specialized course less than two months before term starts and a day before my research trip starts.
Needless to say, I am not excited to begin this term.
