Goals

This time of year in Higher Education is review time. We all hate it. This year, our Division is using a new computer system to help manage that process. It is supposed to make our yearly review a more interactive process. Instead of creating goals in July and forgetting about them until May, this system will allow up to keep a record of events that help demonstrate how skilled we are in using our competencies and give examples of what we have accomplished over the past 10 months or so. I don't know of many people in our office who like it. Everyone received training on it in September but they haven't done anything with it since. Now they are all scrambling to get stuff in and out to our boss by Wednesday.

I SO wanted to add some motherhood transitional goals in there: Never came to work with baby formula or spitup on my clothes; never mistakenly brought Lucas' bottles in with me, thinking they were my lunch; haven't spent time in student appointments going on and on endlessly about everything Lucas is doing now (if students asked, I said he was fine and growing every day). Managed to make it through the first week back without crumbling in a puddle of tears knowing Lucas was spending his first real days away from his mom.

Somehow I think I would be asked to redo my goals . . .