Resolution and relief
Mar. 23rd, 2005 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosawWell, yesterday I was pretty hysterical. I worked myself into a real state of anxiety and was greatly comforted and consoled by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wickedwords, destina and strangerian.
I sent off a short email to the department chair saying I had heard from the TA and that the TA was defensive and pissed off but that I considered the matter closed unless the chair thought there was something further I should do. The chair wrote back a very kind email sharing my disappointment that the email exchange was not more positive and thanking me for taking the time to deal with the situation. I had really worked myself up that the chair hated me and my career there was over, so this was both surprising and made me feel very relieved. She ended the email saying she takes comfort from Dorothy Day's words: "we are not asked to be successful; we are asked to be faithful to the task before us." I did find that email very comforting and am much less freaked out than last night. She really is a very supportive chair and colleague and I feel like the situation is far more stable than I feared last night. If only I were more stable.
Thank you, friends, for your love, support and recs. I really needed the distraction last night and you guys helped so much! I spent some time reading them last night and now I am curling up for a bit more reading before crashing tonight. Comments about the stories post haste, I promise.
wickedwords, destina and strangerian.I sent off a short email to the department chair saying I had heard from the TA and that the TA was defensive and pissed off but that I considered the matter closed unless the chair thought there was something further I should do. The chair wrote back a very kind email sharing my disappointment that the email exchange was not more positive and thanking me for taking the time to deal with the situation. I had really worked myself up that the chair hated me and my career there was over, so this was both surprising and made me feel very relieved. She ended the email saying she takes comfort from Dorothy Day's words: "we are not asked to be successful; we are asked to be faithful to the task before us." I did find that email very comforting and am much less freaked out than last night. She really is a very supportive chair and colleague and I feel like the situation is far more stable than I feared last night. If only I were more stable.
Thank you, friends, for your love, support and recs. I really needed the distraction last night and you guys helped so much! I spent some time reading them last night and now I am curling up for a bit more reading before crashing tonight. Comments about the stories post haste, I promise.
