Thank you, that's sweet of you to say. But trust me, I am loathsome. I can't even allow people here on the couch to be nice to me without overreacting and repelling them.

And I had a rather unpleasant experience with my T today, which I don't even understand. I very much hope that I'll be able to work this out with him on Thursday, otherwise I'm not sure I will be able to continue with him. (I don't want to talk about it here, because I don't understand what it was he meant when he said something so there's no point in trying to relate it.)

Work... well, trying to make a long and boring story shorter, my immediate boss (or coordinator, rather) was unexpectedly told that she will be "reallocated" to another section, because apparently there have been problems in our section. Except that none of the rest of us here have any idea what those problems were supposed to consist of - it is very obvious that what she had done was anger those above, and so they want somebody more pliable, who doesn't protect our interests quite as much. Especially the interests of me and one of my colleagues, whose work profile is different from all the others at the department (we teach a different language - it's complicated). For a while I was rather worried that my job might disappear, but that doesn't seem at all likely now. The immediate result is however that the rest of us get a LOT more work to do, and some tasks that we are not at all prepared for, because there won't be a new coordinator until after Christmas. Plus the two of us who teach another language have been made to feel rather unwelcome - well, we already were, because we are "not useful" (since we cannot teach outside the section where we work - on the other hand we have so much teaching to do here that there's no way for us to keep up with it all, we have to turn students away.) And also, I'm really going to miss the coordinator. She is an excellent boss and colleague.

Sorry. I know that was not very interesting, but you did ask

Mine, too