On needing a new life...

So I just had the most amazing weekend ever. We had "Fall Break," which isn't a real break...it's just one extra day we get off (Friday) but it's still better than nothing, right? Well, two of my friends and I went to Boston and then drove down to UMass to see my favorite band (if you've been reading this blog, you know who they are...lol) and the next day, I drove to UConn to see them again. Haha...I know that's crazy! ;)

Anyway, we had a wonderful time. :) Sightseeing and a little bit of window shopping in Boston, the two concerts, hanging out with the band members and and and. I have about 100 pictures from the weekend, a few fun videos and lots of great memories.

But now I'm back at work and everything just seems to annoy me. You'd think that after having had a great weekend away from work, I'd be refreshed and reenergized but I'm not. One of my RAs was trying to argue with me about how to complete a "Weekly Report" (this set of questions they have to answer once a week...things like how they're doing, what's going on with their residents, etc.)...and just because I said I want her to elaborate on her answers. For example, when it says "How are you doing?" I'd like her to write a little more than "I'm fine". I mean, after all this is my grads and my chance to find out what's going on in her life. But oh no, apparently that was too much to ask for.
Then, later today, another RA asked me if it'd be okay if he came 30 seconds late to the staff meeting - because of a TV show. He asked if the "being on time" policy was something that was a policy but that wasn't enforced. WHAT??? I mean, SERIOUSLY! I'm sorry if there's a TV show you want to watch that ends at 9 pm (which usually they end a couple minutes before anyway and he'd probably just miss the "scenes from next week's episode"), but if we say staff meeting starts at 9 pm, it starts at 9 pm. If I let him be 30 seconds late, then I have to let everyone be 30 seconds late. And let's be honest, it'd never stay with 30 seconds and soon we'd be starting meetings later and later.
It's also freezing cold in the building, especially in my apartment. Right now, I am curled up in my comforter because I couldn't handle it...and I'm still cold! I've talked to the Housing Manager and he said he submitted a request to turn on the heat. Who knows when that'll happen! And to make matters worse, one of my RAs thought she'd be really clever and submit a Repair Request to our Housing Manager to have the heat turned on. Of course that pissed off our Housing Manager. It's not like anything's broken; the heat just hasn't been turned on yet. So he sent me a not-so-nice message because, of course, it's my fault when my RAs do something he doesn't like.

I don't know what's going on today. I just feel like I need a new life. Something needs to change because I'm sick of this!!! I'm sick of having to deal with petty little stuff. I'm sick of people not taking their responsibilities seriously. I'm sick of people trying to argue with me over things that aren't up for debate. I think I'm usually a pretty open-minded person - willing to hear and take students' feedback into account. But there's some things that are just job responsibilities; so why do I need to waste my time arguing over them?

Thanks to my wonderful and amazing weekend, I'm also way behind with work. I have about 50 unread e-mails in my inbox. I don't have a staff meeting agenda for tonight (I only have 3 hours left, one of which I'll be spending at dinner, one of which I'll be spending in meetings with students) and I need to clean my apartment since staff meetings take place in here (I haven't unpacked yet; and there's still art supplies lying around from some projects I worked on last week).

All I want to do is curl up in bed and read; or sleep; or work on another art project that I just thought of today (a certain band member inspired me...lol).

But I gotta run....

Let's hope things at work start looking a little brighter soon....