Back to Reality and Work

I knew the first week back at work and a busy one it was. I concentrated on the Student workers for this first week and we have about half the group are new. Chris will be taking them on but for now I am doing my usual thing. I have plenty of work getting the Lecturers in English, Communications Studies, and Math setup and I like it that way. Putting together the puzzle of the Geek skill set that I need to perform my job has been an interesting exercise—passwords, Active Directory, printer setup, new on-call system. It has woken me up a couple of nights with worry but proved to be nothing beyond the pale. Saturday morning I slept until 10 am—I was pooped. Dinner at Sue’s on Wed. with Marie and Kathy’s families was wonderful—they let us babble and tell stories—it is a little surprising to me what we tell of the highlights and what they find the most surprising. Our harrowing first day on the Chesapeake when we lost our anchor (momentarily) and the day out of Atlantic City when we were met by high waves and turned around were our 2 most scary days and oft repeated. We caught up on the family news we had missed for the last 6 months too—all is well with the Fitzpatrick clan. Campus characters—girl with 3 stands of Grandma pearls with her short shorts and t-Shirt and the boy with flower hat, madras shorts, and stripe shirt if we were in NYC I would have taken their picture but I am home now. I did take pictures of the new student workers and note that the boys don’t comb their hair, the girls are beautiful. Reuniting with coworkers was OK—took them a bottle of wine but they were all overwhelmed with things left to do to start school and not interested in our escapades. AA’s on the other hand were very welcoming—our Lori, English (Janis, Margaret, and Donna), Dean’s Office (Vicki Latham and Dean Karen Campbell and Dean Jones), Prof Steve Buckles (told me about the Loop they do in the Northeast they do from NYC to Maine past his home in Connecticut) , Julia in Asian Studies, Shelley in Anthro (she wants to find a person to do this with—ex-husband bought a boat to do it and now health is keeping him from achieving this goal—poor thing). We have a new baby in the family! On Thursday (8/21/14) Lisa Debusk had baby Katherine Taylor Debusk (Kate) at Centennial 7lbs 4 oz , Fitz and I went on Friday to meet the new baby and they both are beautiful.

Baby Katherine Taylor Debusk (Kate)

Lisa, Lola and Kate at Centennial