Sticky-Wicket Wednesday

Hah, after listening to me grouse about an issue this morning at work, one of my friends/co-workers (who has checked out my blog) said that today was a sticky-wicket day. I said, "Yah, it's Sticky-Wicket Wednesday." Okay, Vicki actually came up with the sticky-wicket name after listening to me vent and we joked that she needed to help me come up with a moniker equivalent to "Cranky Schmanky."

There you have it, today became Sticky-Wicket Wednesday! So what were my sticky-wicket challenges today, you ask? Well, let's see, a couple of things I had to deal with were...

• having to attend a weekly meeting which, at times, is quite painful due to the pernicious group dynamic. Sometimes having to be politically correct and professional savvy gets old when what I really want to do is say, "Hey, who are you trying to kid with that line of BS?" Sadly, today's meeting did not disappoint.
• not sending my pounded out email reply to someone asking me about a process they are in charge of (and I am not) which they have asked me about for the past three years. Seriously, if I was in charge of it, I would know what I needed to know about managing the process. Vicki wisely suggested I not send the email which I hammered out! She also guided me away from resending this person the emails I sent about the process in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Working at an institution of higher education, at least at mine, is fraught with many challenges, but there are many, many, many more rewards. So while there where some sticky issues today, this Wednesday was more or less par for the course.