What We Come To Accept
I took a few days off from work with the intention of visiting friends that I hadn't seen in a while, but my bodymind had other ideas. So instead I have spent the last three days doing a whole lot of the usual around here, which is thinking too much, and seeing instructor friends and students cross the finish line of the semester with exhaustion, and other common feelings one finds at the end of the academic year. I have been thinking this week about the kinds of things we come to accept and often come to expect in our academic places and what we can do to disrupt those expectations because to be honest some of them are really not healthy. For example, maybe you work in an older building with very bad temperature control, to the point where the running joke is make sure you have both a fan and a sweater in your office. I mean sure, ha ha, insert Canadian stereotype about being ready for any weather in spring, but also why is it okay that we have to accept working in such conditions