Mid-Week

Went to work today again, met some students who had an appointment, then attacked the mess on the desk and around it, too.  I knew there wasn't going to be a chance for an outdoor shot today, so it was going to be another ball on the tree.  Anyway, cleaned up a lot, and left the office at 21.00.  Phoned hubby that I had a lot to do and didn't want to get caught up in the evening rush anyway.  What was left over will be done tomorrow.

While cleaning up, had two visitors.  One was M, IBC team leader, who just chatted.  I told him I had woken up this morning wondering how to improve the communication and coordination between us and the other subject teachers to smoothen up the integration process, and my solution was to have the managers facilitate and formalize our joint meetings.  At the moment, there are occasional meetings but they're informal and only between individual instructors and not between teams.  Someone should take down the minutes and everything we need to tell the students should be organized, formalized, and uniform.  And approved by the managers.  These days, the managers just like to leave things to us, so it's all 'voluntary' or 'informal' or 'makeshift'.  This often leads to confusion among the students because the various teachers say various, and sometimes conflicting, things.

The second visitor was an administrative colleague who was chasing a mouse which, she claimed, sneaked under our door, entered my room, and whooshed beneath a cabinet.  I asked her if I had to jump onto a table and she said no.  Apparently, there are a couple of mice who enjoy the place after we all leave and sniff out all the interesting scents we leave behind in the form of leftover biscuits or cookie wrappers, etc.  We had a lengthy discussion about the risk of these mice earning a nightly salary to feed their respective families and even gnawing at our printed documents.  After a while, she had to go back to her own office where she was busy sending out the last bits of mail before leaving for the holidays.  I think she left much later than I did.  As the building doesn't close till 22.00, she wasn't in danger of getting locked in.