It IS a full time job

[Susan Kline]

At 01:17 PM 11/16/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Simple rules to improve your situation in any institution:
>-Enjoy your work.
>-Smile gently to all people.
>-Don't express unnecessary emotions and opinions.
>-Be careful with jokes and double entendres (Insecure people will interpret
>them negatively)
>-Smile gently.
>_Enjoy your work.
>
>Ed S.

All very good. I might add my own rule, which adds to my peace of mind:
Be ready and willing to go back to private work at a moment's notice,
if a situation sours. Nothing is eternal. A situation is good until it
isn't, and life's too short to struggle with the impossible.

I'm still enjoying a honeymoon at Linfield College: head of the piano
department is a superb pianist who loves my work, and has been through
enough technicians to know the difference. She has worked for 20 years
to improve the stock and get rid of the old hulks. There are only 32
pianos total, so I am not dependent on the college for my livelihood.
And some little details (like benches hell-bent on "auto-destruction") have
been neglected for long enough that people notice that something is getting
done.

The downside is the 70 minute drive to get there.

At least, at this time, "attitude adjustment" is hardly needed at all.
I just have to go with the flow.

Susan Kline
Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon