That Time Again

Ah, the start of a new semester... In a week or two, all the budget C-R-A-Z-I-N-E-S-S will be over for another year. I will have absolutely nothing to do, and Wendy will be swamped with syllabi and evaluations. :-)

I'm trying to write down some notes so I will do a better job next year. There is so much budget stuff to do for the start of a new year. And half the time the computer programs aren't working properly so you have to fill out the same form 3 times before it works. But I did better this year than last year, so hopefully I can do the same next year. They can't really train you how to do these things, because you only have to do it once a year--and it changes each year. So they just have to tell you when they need something or if you did something wrong.

I have a great budget rep. this year. She is new, too, so she doesn't know the answers either. So she just says, "We'll just do the best we can and handle things as they come up. No reason to get uptight about it." I like that attitude.

I don't think we have any rooms double booked, so that is always a step in the right direction. Although an entire speech class showed up to use one of our rooms that a philosophy class was already using. The philosophy professor told the speech class to "get the hell out of our building." That was fun.

Here's to the first day of classes!