Time at last to wake up from a long stuporous hibernation...

Hibernation is one of nature's survival kits. And I survived, thank God.

The interview for the promotion went ok if I remember right. But in a game you win some and lose some. I was column-rised to DH48 but in the process also lost my post as head of dept. all the fringe benefits that came with the position - a reserved covered parking lot, an office to myself, a personal laptop and printer, no teaching hours, the authority to get people to run errands for you - well the list could go on and on and on...

But then again all my black hair turned white in a jiffy, the stress meter turned black and I was pressed to do so many reports ever so often ( I hated doing this cos the reports inadvertently ended up in some god-forsaken files which would rarely or never ever see daylight again).

Now my no. 1 boss envies the fact that my hair is slowly but surely turning a darker shade again!
I am now reunited with my first love i.e. classroom teaching and I actually can say I like it - again. I kinda missed the interaction with the students. I now take orders instead of dishing them out and it takes a while to get used to this fact. They gave us a 'senior lecturer' title and how is one supposed to take that! I have 16 contact hours which is quite a luxury compared to my other half's workload in her school. Mercy me, God has been good all the time!

Enuff said for now. Hope I don't go into this habit of hibernating after each new post. Needs motivation or rather aggravation depending on the day to post something new!

Or Is It?

2 months. 60, maybe more days to wait! Latest I heard they asked for a copy of my PTK results even tho' they were submitted during the interview and even way back b4 the interview. How could they be so inefficient? Or should we just sit back and accept it as the norm when u deal with these inept officials up there?

They asked for a clear copy! The original PTK result slip was blur and was barely legible, so how could one get them a clearer copy. All these little officials up there had to do was connect with the Ministry of Education and they would have had all the PTK results they wanted in the world.

Just another one of the grouses of the silent majority......