I just had my annual progress meeting. It went well. It went very well.
I admit that I was a little nervous. What if my chair, with whom I get along superbly, decided to call me out on my flaws? I am, after all, opinionated, vehement in meetings, and complain an awful lot. Sometimes I also wear really pilly sweaters.* But instead of pointing out such things he said that I am "terrific" and "fabulous." [Other comments have been redacted in the interests of making a pretense of humility.] It was so good that it actually made me a little bit uncomfortable, and I was glad when the meeting ended. It's weird to be evaluated to your face, even when the evaluation is good.
But, yay, I still have a job.
*ETA: I've also become a terrible gossip. Terrible! I haven't been this bad since middle school. But everyone else here is too--it's really the only way that information of any kind gets disseminated--so I shouldn't be surprised that that doesn't count against me. Yikes, though--I don't like justifying my flaws this way. I think I'm going to work on that.
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Many many congrats!!!
Yay, you!
Gossip... like tawdry sex: it feels so exciting and good at the time, and you feel a bit icky and soiled afterward.
Hooray! That's great news.
And since gossip is now recognized in some circles as a genre, perhaps we can think of gossip time as a creative endeavor...ooh, maybe we can put it in our annual reports, too, as professional development!
So now I'm wondering what you complain about.
Hurray -- that's fabulous! I'm so glad you're being appreciated (and, of course, that you still have a job!).
Nice that you get to celebrate this fabulous accomplishment with a Caribbean sailboat spring break -- not too shabby.
Congrats! "Terrific" and "fabulous"--that should make the midterm grading easier to bear.
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