New beginnings...

I've made it through the first week of training. My apartment is still a mess. When I come home after a long day of training, I'm just tired and I don't feel like cleaning and unpacking. The last couple of days, I've also had some "great idea" related to work and spent my evening working on figuring out a plan to implement that idea.

It's weird being back at an institution that I've worked at before. There's still a lot of people here that I know. I know how some things are done, but obviously there's been a decent amount of changes. I'm worried that I won't realize that something is done differently now and do it the old way by mistake; I'm worried that I won't remember something that I should know. I'm worried that I won't be able to live up to the high expectations people have of me.

But in spite of all that, it's good to be back. We had a session talking about supervising grads; I LOVED talking about research on supervision, theories on how to supervise staff successfully. I've missed this! We had a session on Community Standards and instead of just talking about how to do an administrative conference and what paperwork to fill out, we talked about the philosophy and the history of hearing processes on college campuses.
Of course there has to be some conversation about how to do things, about administrative processes, etc. - but it's great to once again be at an institution that also spends some time on more educational topics, on philosophies and theories.

I've been really inspired lately. I have all these ideas. There are so many things I want to do with my staff and my students; there are so many ideas I have for the department. There are so many things I want to do or get involved in at this institution. I know I'm in great danger of throwing myself into work again and forgetting to have a personal life. ;) But I'm just soooooo excited....