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well, that's done with Monday March 7

i have a real battle to fight at work. and it's an internal one. in this job, i can let certain things slide, or i can choose to work to make everything how i want it to be. the question i've been wrestling, then, is how futile my efforts might be in trying to control certain aspects, such as patron behavior.

students will always put their feet on the balcony. if i ask them not to, they won't, but then next time they will again. is there a point? will they ever understand the liability if something were to fall on patrons below on the main floor? why do i think about these ridiculous contingencies? why doesn't anyone else? can't they see what the problem is with that?

these are the kinds of thoughts i've been having. and i'm starting to realize that i do have a stronger background in facility management then i had thought; i am a details person, and the whole thing is one big detail, one big collection of "we must do it this way or we can't do it that way because what if", only there are thousands of what ifs, and there's no way of pinning them all down in your head, but you have to know them when you see them.

all i can do is fall back to my chinese lit class from last fall: is it better to govern with rules and regulations, or govern with the lack of? the less rules there are, the less people are breaking them: reducing the total stress felt by everyone. does that make sense? daoism versus confucianism in political processes.

i'm taking short days on monday and tuesday this week to make up for the fact that i spent the entire weekend at work. tuesday todd and i will be making a chicago trip to see erik. he's going to show us a good time, i guess.