{"id":932,"date":"2021-10-01T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/?p=932"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:19:32","slug":"sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you just have to laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since I’ve been coming back to the office every day, there has been an almost-constant stream of HVAC workers who are . . . well, working on our HVAC system on the 6th floor of HBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve had days where we couldn’t go out our main doorway into the hallway to the elevators. (Thank goodness HBC is a bit of a rabbit warren and there are back ways to get where you’re going.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve had days where we could barely get out of our office doors because ladders – and workers on ladders – were right outside those doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve had days where we couldn’t get into our workroom (e.g., to make coffee – oh no!) because ladders – and workers on ladders – were smack in the doorway to the workroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve had to turn up the sound on our Zoom meetings because of all the hubbub outside our doors – talking and drilling and discussing and assessing and moving equipment and then doing it all again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think today may have taken the cake for disruption and distraction. I couldn’t resist taking this picture, even though I have very little idea why or how this equipment might help fix whatever is wrong with our HVAC system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For some reason, this experience seems like a metaphor for the last 18 months. Disruptions, distractions, detours. Problems that require unusual solutions. Calling in “the big guns” (see the picture!). Adapting to less-than-congenial work settings. And continuing to do what we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as we get closer to the weekend – as this rainy Friday morning has turned into a sunny (for now) Friday afternoon – I wish you a bit of laughter at the absurdities of life. And please keep on doing what you do, remembering to laugh along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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