early

I seem to be running early this morning - dunno how that happened - maybe cos I woke just before the alarm (as distinct from 2 hrs before the alarm, grrr, which is a more frequent occurence) and actually got up, rather than waiting for the news to wash over me. I've been crunching my way through appraisal interviews this week - never an easy task, and have had to mediate in another couple of touchy situations. I seem to be getting better at dealing with the tricky stuff, but it doesn't come naturally! If I've been able to stop a resignation from occuring (which remains to be seen) I'll be happier.

We had a huge turnover of deans and assistant deans recently, so when new appointments were made this week and 3 of my department were appointed to positions, suddenly a whole new crisis arose - we were already pretty thin in some areas of the timetable, but physics in particular is now stretched to it's limits!

So, this morning ties up my own appraisal - except my appraiser had lost all my papers when we last met on Wednesday, and I have one more tricky one to do myself. Yay to have that all out of the way a week before the end of term!