One of the interesting differences between summer and the semester, for me, isn't really the amount of work - I do work more during the school year, obviously, but I also work during the summer - it's being around people all the time again. Often the same people (academic departments and colleges are like families - you're with the same people for decades - and, like families, they are more and less functional, depending on their composition at any given time).
Two quotes* that have kept running through my head last week and this week:
Hurt people hurt people.
Buddha would love boundaries.
They go together, right?
*Dudes, I'm an academic. I have tried to get good attributions for these, but I can't! I've always heard the first in the context of AA, and the second I have heard attributed to Pema Chodron. My apologies to the originators of these sentiments, if it is someone other than these.
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One of the things I love about working from home is that I don't have to be social. But oddly, it's one of the things that I also miss about going into the office. There were people I absolutely couldn't stand, but there were a few who were great, and it's odd not seeing them almost every day
God bless
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