time marches on

It's finals week at Clackamas Community College, and the living is NOT easy. Some teachers are getting the notion that they can dump all their final exams on the testing center, and our administrators are letting them get away with it. We are already at the point where people have to sit and wait for a seat to take their tests, and it will only get worse as the deadlines approach. I guess, when someone who works finds out that she will not be able to take her final because the test center is full during her only window of opportunity, and takes the problem, in fury, to the college prez, then things eill change. Until then, we peons in the trenches will try to placate nervous, fretful, stressed-out students (and their parents.)Oh joy. I am SO looking forward to the end of this week!!

Life in the valley is lush. Forsythia are fountaining exuberant floral ejaculations of yellow, flowering quince are blushing scarlet, apple trees are beginning to pop their buds, the magnolia in our backyard is getting very sexy looking, and undergrowth is greening up gloriously in the wetlands. It's raining raining raining raining which keeps things green,green,green all summer. March showers bring full watertables. April showers bring Mayflowers. Mayflowers bring pilgrims.