segues from the excellent to the disturbing

[lunabee34]

1. Please join us at journalsandplanners for talk about . . . journals and planners. LOL And all things stationery related. I just made a post to kick off activity, but feel free to make your own top-level posts. I'd love to see that comm get active again.

2. I got elected chair of Faculty Senate for next academic year. My plans for world domination continue apace.

3. I am clearly an outlier, but I really enjoy doing annual evaluations. I get to the end of mine, and I'm all, "I'm awesome. Look at all this amazing shit I did this year and recognize!" I have never had a problem tooting my own horn (which is perhaps its own kind of problem LOL).

4. Sammy wants to get in the fireplace, so that's A Project for today.

5. I put on my big girl panties and bought my plane ticket for SWPACA, a regional academic conference held in Albuquerque at the end of this month. I am crossing my fingers that I can get most of that + the conference registration reimbursed by my institution.

6. When Josh was at the grocery store yesterday, an employee suddenly started screaming and trying to cut himself with a box cutter in the middle of produce. It was very upsetting. I'm glad everyone in the store ended up okay, including the employee (or least not shot by police or a "good guy" with a gun), but Josh was really shaken up.

Comments

[amejisuto]

Congratulations on getting elected! That's so great!

And you are awesome! Glad to hear you say it though! LOL!

Hopefully, you can scare Sammy out of that. I use one of those cans of compressed air to scare Max, it works better than water because half the time the little booger is sitting on my computer.

I hope you can get a reimbursement. That would be bad if you couldn't.

Holy crud! I'm glad Josh is okay. I mean, did the man do it by accident or did he have a psychotic break? That sounds so scary.

[lunabee34]

Thank you my dear! :D

Compressed air is such a good idea. I definitely would prefer that to spraying water everywhere. LOL

I will get some reimbursed for sure. I just want it all!

I think it must have been some kind of mental health episode. Josh said he was just incoherently screaming. But he said the response was instant; all the employees around instantly restrained him and more instantly showed up, and all the patrons quickly and quietly exited the area, which is exactly what you want to happen in a situation like that.

[amejisuto]

Compressed air sounds like a giant cat hissing so their claws tend to come out as they run. But I think it works better than water.

Gosh, I'm glad the other employees there were able to help him out. Still, that had to be jarring for the customers.