34 Weeks

Because of last weeks debacle with my supervisor and site manager at work, we ended up having a meeting with the Advisory Board and the graduate students. The meeting was productive, but I came out of it feeling defeated and not an efficient manager. My supervisor, who has never had children, came out of it feeling better about the situation than I did, but thanks to a comment from another board member, started to panic about the project's progress post baby. Our original agreement was that they would treat me as if I was salaried, despite not being salaried in the university pay system because I made a few hundred less than was required. Thanks to the comment, my supervisor wants me to count my hours, and then if there are any left he can switch them to the students to give them more hours. This is a frustration I did not need, but I will deal with the situation after the baby arrives and see if I will be reduced in hours.

I have been calling the poor health department daily, trying to get the H1N1 vaccine shot. Our state stopped testing patients, and so now our numbers of infected look like we have fewer than anybody, so they have been slower to ship the vaccine to the state. Hopefully soon I will get it. In the meantime, I finished cleaning out the professors office that I have been helping with since the spring. I don't plan on coming to campus very often the rest of the year so I can avoid all the germs.