ON APPRECIATION (II)

While it is all well and good that today is "Earth Day," it is a much more important holiday to me. Today is the annual "RD Appreciation Day" at my college. As I am an RD, I love it.

It started when I got in my office and saw that the RA's had made little construction paper signs and hung them up on the back of my door. On my desk was a "The Office"-approved "World's Best Boss" mug with three packets of fancy hot chocolate included. There was a card that all of my RA's had signed, as well as a gift card for FYE (inside of a Victoria's Secret gift card box). Aside from the brief moment of questioning whether they actually got me a Victoria's Secret gift card, it was a very nice surprise.

I have to say that I really feel like I needed this boost, professionally speaking. TS Eliot said that "April is the cruelest month," and I have to think that he worked at a college when he wrote it. Spring Break is over, Spring closing isn't coming up for a few weeks - it's really the Waste Lands of the school year. So to get something like this sprinkled in - it's a great feeling.

Now, to carry that feeling over every day for the next 32 days, until the RA's move out...