Sending u massive hugs muji

Actually it sounds like you got it to me. If they were turning you down they could say no today. Running it by the college board sounds like they need the rubber stamp before saying yes.

Sounds like they plan to talk to you at the meeting.

They do need the stamp of approval because the board approves the expenditures. So they will probably call a special meeting for that purpose only after the 12th.(protocol)

Continued support.

I agree with Atec here. If they wanted to tell you no they would have already... here's to hoping that they say yes!

Waiting with you muji and wishing for the answer to be what you want and need.

Oh, boy.

To quote the obvious Tom Petty line .... the waiting is the hardest part.

Still got my fingers crossed for you, Muji.

Prayers for a positive outcome! Hugs!

Thanks, everybody. From your lips to God's ears, as they say, as to its being a sign of a positive outcome.

David, you hit the nail on the head with your song selection for the occasion! That Tom Petty song line "The waiting is the hardest part" has been playing in my head for days as the background soundtrack to this little drama. HA!! :-)

As I turn in, I'm a little more tired and anxious about this than usual. It's been a long ordeal, hasn't it? And it just got longer. I'll need your help to get to Tuesday well.

Big hug and a prayer Muji.....xo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPDl9yKSnDE

SC,

That was so kind. That link was blocked, but I found another Hollies
Youtube of "He Ain't Heavy" and watched it and it lifted me up.

I got my taxes plus a job application to another college done today, too, just in case.

So I'm glad to report that with your support I wasn't just frozen or sunken into depression, but functional.

Thanks, that's what support from here does. Hope you're well, too.

Sending you prayers Muji..you will get through these days

I'm bracing myself for a body blow, so I'd like to vent.

I'm really glad others here think I will get tenure tomorrow. It's the day before the deadline, so to get through the stress I need to vent.

Allowing me to vent, let me say that I expect to receive tenure denial by this community college. They did everything they could to make sure they didn't hear my whole story as a scholar so they could judge me thumbs down. Over and over since I got here I was told I could only tell them about what I did from arriving in 2011 forward. Not the fact that I wrote a book in 1994 and taught on war and peace in Latin America all of my life. Not even that I came in 2011 from teaching about that fresh from Argentina.

So now they can label me a crazy PTSD case that polarized his students in the death and dying classroom. Not mentioning that as a survivor of a car bombing I showed The Hurt Locker in sympathy with other car bombing veterans from this generation in Iraq. No, I'm told I'm "anti veteran" because one evaluation from one student said so. Ignoring all the rave evaluations from other students. Without allowing my lifelong record of teaching and writing sympathetically to trauma survivors. Including working as a hospital chaplain to them directly, I'm labeled crazy by these community college committee members.

As Kurt Vonnegut would say about this absurdity, "so it goes." THanks for letting me vent today.