Work is really busy.  I am a tigered puppy.  Tomorrow and next week promise more of the same, then it should quiet down some.  It’s tough to come back from vacation directly into the insane-est time of the year.  I plan to make up for it by slacking heartily once it slows down.

I know I’m really more of a townie than a student now, because I get very grumpy when the students come back.  Here are some of the things that suck about Iowa City in late August.

1.  Sorority girls and frat boys everywhere.  They get here early for rush, and boy is that nuts.  I remember when I started college, my parents were driving me to my dorm, and all I could see as we drove past all the sorority houses was girls in black dresses.  Everywhere.  Sometimes I get flashbacks.

2.  Confused parents driving the wrong way down one-way streets.  Iowa City has a few (5, I think, in the downtown area), and it can be downright scary to find yourself facing off with an SUV with Illinois plates.  Ay yi yi!

3.  General crowdedness and rowdiness of downtown establishments.  I can tell I’m getting very codgery because I wish people would just use their inside voices.  Plus I miss not having to wait for a table at a restaurant.

4.  Higher adult-to-baby ratio in town.  By that I mean literal babies, not students who have their parents call in when their Hawk IDs aren’t working (I actually had one of those this week).  I really enjoy spending a few minutes over lunch hour in the summer watching the cute little kids frolic in the fountain, and now they’ll be pushed out by rudes.

But…with no students there would be no faculty, and with no faculty there would be no Academic Technologies, and with no Academic Technologies I wouldn’t have a job or my nice husband Denny (since I met him at work).  Well, I might have a job, but it would be a different job.

Hm…