Friday at last

The trees may be turning yellow alarmingly quickly, but these have been a wonderful patch of colour when I leave work for what seems like weeks!

I enjoy my job, but just at the moment I'm a bit too busy with things which don't contribute meaningfully to anyone's quality of life: the worst at the moment trying to get an IT system which monitors the attendance of non-EU students to behave properly. 

Fortunately there are compensations: today I met a clever undergraduate who was pleased when I suggested a colleague would have a more interesting project for her than me, and welcomed a late arriving excited but anxious masters student, helping to integrate her into the class and courses which have already started. That is worthwhile.