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Happy Fourth, everyone.
I've just been over to visit the new (read: OLD and crummy) offices we're moving to at the end of this month. It's pretty bad. We started out being told the paint and carpet were going to be replaced, and now (esp. knowing this school) it seems like that might not be happening. If this is so, we have decided to paint on our own! "We're not... gonna take it!" We also mentioned it to the Dean (the paint and carpet) and he's going to discuss with the project manager of the renovation/move.
We have chosen where everything is going to be located. The setup of the offices is fine. It's just my workspace I'm not too happy about. It's basically going to change a lot of our procedures.
At least we'll be in the center of campus now, but I'm still not looking forward to it. We have unanimously decided that we're not going to use the bathrooms in our building; we're going to walk over to the cafe instead. We're all feeling like the building is pretty claustrophobic (no windows on our side of the building and florescent lights everywhere). So we'll be fleeing to the rest of campus as often as possible.
My supervisor is still talking about privacy for herself from the students. I don't think she realizes she needs to serve them when I'm unable.
The good news is that in our 04-05 budget, a student worker has been approved. So now I can finally go to the department meetings and actually know what's going on. Plus I can get help with filing or other projects.