I'm discontinuing my blogspot blog in favour of wordpress.com Shouldn't be that much of a change, but thanks to all who read and contributed to my inane ramblings here over the last year.
My new blog can be found at http://andrewstothers.wordpress.com and is a bit bare at the minute. Please bear with me as I think of witty and informative stuff to say/rant about.
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Unnatural Disaster
Last night I was happy that 2008 was going well. This morning that all changed.
I got an email from one of the maths secretaries telling me the roof in my office had collapsed over the holidays and that there had been a leak. Unfortunately, the leak had concentrated itself over my desk, thus ruining all the paper and whatever else happened to be on it (including the calculator that had so faithfully served me since GCSE days).
Effectively, months of work down the drain then. They are relocating us to the office upstairs but it is scant consolation. Mine was the only desk affected in the office, thus making this particular "Act of God" seem like something of a personal attack. I'm trying not to think of it like that though.
So the question is, where do I go from here? I have been unhappy with things for a while and this might be a good opportunity to "get out" as it were, but I don't just want to quit because it's a convenient time to do so.
So it's that or stick with it, and try to overcome the setback. That's actually a better option, since much of my discontent was due to "Other" issues and when I think about it, yes I've lost a lot of work, but most of it is firmly lodged in my brain or on the servers.
What I will do is take some positive action- clearly God took some major offence at what I was writing so perhaps it's time to move in a new direction, which is what I was planning for this semester anyway.
Not so bad then, but I'd rather I didn't have to worry about this.
I'm being encouraged to seek compensation for the problem. Yes, I lost some work, but as I said, it was nothing that I couldn't reproduce with a bit of effort, and to be honest I was ready to move on anyway. The most precious things in my desk remained intact and when I think about it I haven' t really lost that much. Trying to get some money from this would be crass opportunism, which is not something I want to get started in.
I'm just glad I'm not in Edinburgh just now, as i don't know how I would react to seeing all my work up in smoke. Since I'm not there I might as well look at it positively. Trust me though, it's hard....
I got an email from one of the maths secretaries telling me the roof in my office had collapsed over the holidays and that there had been a leak. Unfortunately, the leak had concentrated itself over my desk, thus ruining all the paper and whatever else happened to be on it (including the calculator that had so faithfully served me since GCSE days).
Effectively, months of work down the drain then. They are relocating us to the office upstairs but it is scant consolation. Mine was the only desk affected in the office, thus making this particular "Act of God" seem like something of a personal attack. I'm trying not to think of it like that though.
So the question is, where do I go from here? I have been unhappy with things for a while and this might be a good opportunity to "get out" as it were, but I don't just want to quit because it's a convenient time to do so.
So it's that or stick with it, and try to overcome the setback. That's actually a better option, since much of my discontent was due to "Other" issues and when I think about it, yes I've lost a lot of work, but most of it is firmly lodged in my brain or on the servers.
What I will do is take some positive action- clearly God took some major offence at what I was writing so perhaps it's time to move in a new direction, which is what I was planning for this semester anyway.
Not so bad then, but I'd rather I didn't have to worry about this.
I'm being encouraged to seek compensation for the problem. Yes, I lost some work, but as I said, it was nothing that I couldn't reproduce with a bit of effort, and to be honest I was ready to move on anyway. The most precious things in my desk remained intact and when I think about it I haven' t really lost that much. Trying to get some money from this would be crass opportunism, which is not something I want to get started in.
I'm just glad I'm not in Edinburgh just now, as i don't know how I would react to seeing all my work up in smoke. Since I'm not there I might as well look at it positively. Trust me though, it's hard....
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