Tuesday, September 9, 2003

the beat goes on

and i'm dancing as fast as i can.  tonight will be the first of my evening classes, getting me into the full schedule for this term.  yesterday had some truly awful moments in human resources trying to figure out this schedule.  they were going to pull my contract for the evening class, because i had too many hours.  as a part-time adjunct instructor i can only have 25, and i had 26.  BFD.  it ended, not happily, with bringing the class down to five hours instead of six.  how administrative of them to only notice this the day before the class was to begin.  so, anyhow, we will begin tonight.  there will be a new director of human resources soon, i can only hope it will bring some efficiency to the department.

and the Resident of our country wants $87 billion more for his pet project, iraq.  ben cohen, one of the founders of ben & jerry's, in an email from www.truemajority.com tells me that for this sum of money we could:   -solve the school budget crisis in every one of our communities  OR  -provide health insurance for every uninsured american child for 15 years  OR  -provide food for all 6 million of the children who die from hunger around the world for 7 years.  think of that.  no child left behind, or what? 

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