RBOC, midweek edition

• This week I had to do something I never imagined I would have to do. I filed an official report with the Campus Police stating that my hand grenade has been stolen. Yes, that’s right. My hand grenade has been stolen. Luckily, I didn’t have to do too much explaining to the Campus Police about why I had a hand grenade in my office because they already knew I had it. (Last semester, the hand grenade was turned in as part of a multigenre project in my Comp 2 class. The student who turned it in had the foresight to bring it to Campus Police and have them write me a note stating that the grenade was not live.)
• I am hopeful that the hand grenade will turn up. I enjoyed being the only English faculty member to have a hand grenade in her office. I fear my office will now look too generic.
• Who am I kidding? There’s no way an office with mobiles, an eye-catching diorama of a bathroom, a light up goose, and a three foot tall stuffed woman could look too generic. But that hand grenade really pulled it all together.
• I tutor in the Writing Center on Wednesdays and have noticed that the Writing Center seems to have its own microclimate that is cooler and windier than the rest of the building.
• I noticed myself saying “that ship has sailed” lately (as in, “No, you may not turn in last week’s homework today. That ship has sailed.”) and I wonder why.
• I love the Bedford/St. Martin’s Professional Resources series in Rhetoric and Composition. Last week I ordered books from the series for all our part-timers.
• It’s already time to start registering Lily for summer camps. She’s already signed up for another round of Theatre Camp. She also wants to do Zoo Camp again and try a language camp through the Denver International School. I figured she’d want to learn Spanish, since she’s taking a once-a-week Spanish class already, but she says she wants to learn Chinese.

tags: whatever  work  whining  stupidity  writingcenter  lily  

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