Time Keeps On Slippin'

And so the strike lingers on. Like a party guest that doesn't see you putting your pajamas on as a signal that they should go home, it just keeps on keepin' on. A mediator, one of the best I'm told, has been dispatched to the scene. The media keep on sensationalizing what is really astonishingly boring and childish.

But it's okay.

There is a silver lining after all.

That is that I've been repeated hit in the back of the head with one shovel of a headcold and taking considerable time to recover. Today marks my first full day out of bed since Sunday. I'm only on the couch... but it's not my bed so I'm excited. Hork Honk hork honk honk...

I'm sharing the couch with my wonderful partner who is "working" from home today. He's getting a lot of reading done... and by reading, I suppose I mean he's turned on the closed captioning on some MST3K reruns. I am attempting to get some work done on a referencing project, but my prof's admin assistant isn't responding to my requests for some word documents. Oh, well. Watcha gonna do?

The lesson of this stike for me is this: don't fret over that which you have no control over. So I'm not fretting. I'm deliberating deciding to have faith that everything is going to work out okay. It's necessary because - well, I was sick this week and I missed the deadline to pick up shifts at the org. I take it as a sign... if I had taken the shifts and then we went back to school, I'd be in a tight spot having to work and be in class at the same time. So please, please... let the negotiator work his or her magic.

In psych news:

I get to peer review a journal article submitted for publication. It's my first time doing this. And it's intimidating. It's also a bit of a conflict of interest seeing as I have also submitted to this publication and there is a competition for the publication spots. They have all the people who submitted evaluating each others' papers. Isn't that a bit weird? I mean... I want to be chosen over the person I'm evaluating (who I can tell is a prof because they site themselves as "Author" several times), so I'm inclined to give them a bad peer review. But then I'm only a first year's masters student -- uh, this paper is a bit beyond my purvue to criticize in an in depth manner.

Fortunately, I'm not a hose-beast and will do my honest best.

Now if only the union and admin would do the same thing.