don't let the empty schedule deceive you

When I began this week, I was expecting a fairly quiet week. There weren't many meetings on my schedule. I didn't have any major deadlines I needed to meet. It was going to be a quiet week for me to work on some projects in my office.

By Monday afternoon I had completely given up the idea of a quiet week. This week was going to be crazy. We unexpectedly received some one-time money (not to be used for subscriptions) that had to be allocated for spending by Wednesday at 1. Now we aren't talking about a small amount of money; we're talking 6 digits.

Because of this, the digital services librarian called me and the history librarian to meet and prioritize the one-time purchase requests in the humanities. So we hurried and discussed about 20 different resource options and prioritized our list only to find out after the collection development committee met that they weren't going to make the final decision until May 2. Kind of irritating... If the committee had told our dig. svcs. librarian that in the first place, the hist. librarian & I wouldn't have had to scramble to get the requests prioritized. Oh well, we should be getting some pretty sweet resources out of the deal.

About the time that the one-time money adventure settled down, several undergrad theses plopped onto my desk. I'd volunteered to be a judge for the Phi Beta Kappa/Phi Kappa Phi Best Thesis contest. This means I read the top 4 theses, rank them, and help a committee of about 4-5 professors decide which ones are tops. The subjects are all over the place - economics, communication disorders, chemistry, history. I've gotten part of the way through the stack, but I think that most of that will be coming home with me for the weekend.

So much for the deceptively empty schedule I had on Monday...