2017 Delayed Review
How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet. ~ Robert Browning. Delayed review, what can I say. Hehe. Too lazy. But 2017 has been good, over all. Great, in fact! Career -wise I guess I checked all the KPI boxes. I got the promotion, grant, publications and what not. But it was not smooth-sailing. The whole year I had to grapple with the preparation of the New Curriculum, which started when I began my term as the Coordinator for the BA English Lit program in 2016. There were times I really lost my head but I was blessed to have two junior colleagues helping me out with the preparation. My RA also helped out in terms of formatting and whatnot. I remember at one time the four of us stayed in my office until 11 pm to finish off the document! Come to think of it, I really couldn't have made it through without these people's help. Blessed! If I'm not mistaken my eyes started giving me problems early 2017. I couldn't wear my contact lens any more. The...