Two boosts to morale

There has been a very unsettled feeling at work for the past week. I don't know that the students have picked up on it, but the office staff and teachers have been keeping to themselves. It all started when a teacher was dismissed, seemingly without warning, last week and asked to leave campus that same afternoon. A brief, generic email statement was the only notification we got. Today I stumbled, almost literally, onto two good cures for low morale. First, I was walking through the back hall to the office to pick up a print. I went past the film studio, dodged a student, turned into the connecting corridor that leads to the backdoor of the copier room and almost bumped into a student in his jocks. He glanced at me and laughed, I covered my eyes and kept walking, then had a laugh about our crazy workplace with one of the office ladies. Second, I opened the pack of snakes from the bottom desk drawer. Maybe it's the sugar buzz, or the sweetness, or the silliness of sitting in a library in a college eating a gummy snake, but it helped lighten the mood.