I was home from work slightly later than usual today. Normally this is down to managers bursting in at the last minute demanding that I look into something, sometimes it’s due to me getting carried away in the moment and not realising the time. Today it was because there was an online assessment snafu.
It’s an event I knew about, it’s an event I’d planned for, it’s an event that I’d added to my calendar. It’s an event I completely forgot about because:
- I added it to my, and my colleagues’, calendars a day late. Call this a moment of insanity if you will.
- I forgot to set a reminder.
Anyway, at quarter-past-four, a rather anxious member of a department’s admin staff comes into the office, asking where I’ve been for the past fifteen minutes. Cue a hurried rush downstairs, to see the academic who fired off the original enquiry coming to the end of her introductory slides, and a room full of student’s at computers.
A silence descends on the room. Everyone in the room turns to look at me. No idea why. I’m here purely to see what’s going on. (more…)
