Complete write-up of Kenyon Union Issues (and a quick note about Moominrecs)

Good grief, it's been a chaotic few days. Yesterday was full of psych weirdness, and today has been absolutely lovely, but I'll catch up on that in a bit. Kenyon stuff is more pressing.

First of all, quick administrative note: I've now switched moominrecs to crosspost to its own Twitter (moominrecs) instead of mine (moominmuppet), but have also actually finally set this primary journal to reliably crosspost to moominmuppet twitter. I've also created another Facebook, Moomin Recs, specifically for it to cross-post to. Feel free to add me in whatever context is most convenient, if interested.

Right as I was in the middle of all that, things went a bit haywire. I'm posting about the Kenyon part of that below, and it's as complete as I can make it, since keeping track of things on FB is a royal pain, and I expect to be involved in this for a while so I'm documenting.

Thursday night I found out that my college, Kenyon, is trying to outsource our maintenance department to Sodexo. As folks may have noticed a few weeks ago regarding my reunion, I love Kenyon with a passion. The maintenance department workers are a non-trivial part of why. These folks took me into their community and homes when I was at my most awkward and obnoxious phases, and are family to me. Following are my various FB posts and comments about it, as well as links to the basic story. My comments in bold, to prevent confusion.
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Psych writeup (and another pissed off letter to write)

Yesterday I got walloped upside the head with a mixed state mania.

I posted some about this the other day: Mixed States and other annoying crap

Then the news about Kenyon happened. My manic "righteous rage" reaction is one I'm very familiar with; it's the same one that used to require me storming off into the woods with my axe until I burned off the physiological adrenaline rush enough to stop shaking and handle things reasonably. Moderated properly, it's the same element of my personality that's why I can't stop doing activism work and speaking up, and it gives me some of the bravado that can make that easier at times, because I just can't not say something. Problem is, the more manic I am, the more true that is, and it is most definitely the biggest weakness in my work career that I'm relatively unreliable about managing to control that same impulse at work over much smaller issues of "right and wrong". I don't respect rank, and I speak my mind, and sometimes it's for the greater good, and sometimes it's just a dumbass "can't shut my mouth" moment. In large part I see it as an advantage of my social privilege; I tend to expect to be listened to and taken seriously, and often get away with it solely on the basis of that, and that's a result of educational enculturation. I figure it's a good use of that privilege to use it primarily in activist directions. And I'm really rambling here, because I'm still moderately manic today. Back to where we were...
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Mania notes...

Phew. Back at work, which feels really good. Sundays are quiet, and I've got three screens to try to organize my head. Also, the A/C actually seems to be working right today. Hoorah for that!

I'm kinda doing the whole "teachable moment" thing about my fibromyalgia and my bipolar II at the moment, so that's what this is about. Feel free to skip if it doesn't interest you. It's largely about the experience of having invisible and unpredictable chronic illnesses, and some of the particulars of what that's like, at least for me. (mostly delayed until I have time to finish it, fyi)

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Planning on making a picket sign for Wednesday. A quick run through the current Kenyon course catalog gives me these courses that all seem to directly apply to "Do as we say not as we do? Shame on Kenyon!", which I'm going to follow with the course listings.

SOCY 107 Institutions and Inequalities
SOCY 223 Wealth and Power
SOCY 229D Social Movements
SOCY 234 Community
SOCY 235 Transnational Social Movements
SOCY 243 Social Justice:The Ancient and Modern Traditions
SOCY 250 Systems of Stratification
SOCY 463 Intersectional Theory
SOCY 477Y Fieldwork: Rural Life
PHIL 110 Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 115 Practical Issues in Ethics
ECON 344 Labor Economics
ECON 382 Economics of Education
ECON 383 American Economic History
IPHS 113Y Odyssey of the West: Love and Justice
INST 121 Globalization and Migration-at Home