Tenure and the tender librarian

I seem to talk about the weather a lot don't I? Now that I have weather to be interested in, rather than the Tucson "it's gonna hot today" all year round, I have assumed the title of Weather Lady here in the liberry and deliver random weather reports to Charlene my office mate.

The week is counting down to surgery and I have been trying to make sure and finish things up before I'm out recovering (or rather reading smutty novels and boring myself with TV). One of the main things I had to finish up were my folders for my review. Folders for a tenure track librarian have many names and are sometimes called packets or binders or the notebooks. They often carry a descriptive phrase like "my tenure packet from hell". These folders take a long time to do and even longer if you like to procrastinate or don't keep track of everything you do all year.

So my folders were due on Friday at 5pm but I had decided that sitting here surfing craigslist or looking at CNN or derby related webthings seemed funner than writing out my "Professional Contributions" sheet or putting together my appendixes of support. I did get it done on time (hurray me!!) and turned in by the deadline which made me happy yet anxiety ridden wondering if my folders and written stuff were perfect so my fellow librarians would not be compelled to bring their red pencils and correct my grammer. Keep your fingers crossed for me kids.

I forgot to mention that the weather is changing we have a forecast of possible snow and "blizzard like" conditions out in Western Nebraska. So in preparation I went to the ACE and bought some stakes to bring my tomatoes inside as they are actually produing tiny little baby tomatoes. Damn late tomatoes. Why didn't they bloom earlier in the year like regular plants I ask? Maybe my plants are procrastinators too!