Positive Feedback

I both gave and received positive feedback today, which feels nice.  Both meetings were in the morning.

First I discussed my annual performance review with our program assistant, who is terrific.  The first few years that I supervised her I was able to offer constructive criticism, but the past two years I haven't been able to find anything to improve.

Immediately afterward I met with my dean and one of the associate deans, who basically liked the work that I was doing and asked in great detail my plans for when I step down as department chair.

It will be more real when I see it in writing, and yet I can stand being praised and thanked, quite a nice morning overall.

This moment in time is intrinsically tied to the moments that proceeded it, by definition this past year.  I have been working pretty hard, and so has our program assistant.  Weird how a range of time can be tied to the moment of articulation.