Lighttime success

The lightproofing worked! D didn't close the door when he came to bed, so I did wake up at 7:00 with the light from the spare room at the end of the hallway, but nothing came in the window, which was marvy. I felt like I finally got enough sleep. And D has been gently instructed on how to operate the bedroom door before bedtime.

Worked a long day again today. I spent a good deal of time re-organizing the teachers' room, which changed rooms while I was away. I played a role in the January move to our new building, so I organized the old teachers' room, and when they changed the teachers' room last month while I was on holiday, everything went to pot again--photocopier in the doorway, computers everywhere, shared teaching books stashed away in private cubbyholes, etc. A mess. So I sorted that out (paid time, of course... D has trained me well to stop doing work that I'm not getting paid for). So I got most of that straightened out, finally. My boss has this tendency to want to fill the teachers' room with furniture, forgetting that people have to fit in there as well.

And then I started getting the welcome packs ready for the Filipino students next week--collected some leaflets and brochures from the tourist information centre and the bus station and am waiting on a couple more things that I'd like to go in them. Not a bad day.

Had a good discussion with the Japanese fellow from the head office (our school is owned by a Japanese company) who's working on our site for the summer about some improvements, such as a timetable board. This is the stuff that I like to do, actually. I think I should organize other people's lives for a living. If only I could organize my own...

D's philosophical methodology seminar begins tonight for this term, and he spent a lot of time preparing for it. He ran it last term as well, but he really wanted to make it more appealing and more popular this term. He feels like it went really well, and he'd like for more people from the department to be involved in the discussions of the topics he covers in his seminar. He's not home just yet, but I hope it goes well. He's used a few good old American marketing strategies to sell the seminar, such as including a line in the seminar announcement that gets emailed to all the philosophers about their usually going to the Merton Bar afterwards. :-) So I probably shouldn't expect him home anytime soon, I guess.