Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

First day back from the Holy Week vacation. Left Baguio at 5:20am, and arrived in Manila at 12:30pm. I had a leisurely vegetarian lunch at the Manila Sanitarium and Hospital, that was on the way to the school from home, and arrived at the office at around 1:45pm. My co-teachers (who did not go to the outing with us), were surprised to see me back, and they thought everyone else was back as well, when they were probably still swerving down the winding mountain roads at that time.

I spent a few minutes in front of the computer just scanning some of the blogs and sites I haven’t seen in almost a week, until I had to go to the other building to go to my only official second annual entrance exam review.

When I did get there, the handouts weren’t, but still on the secretary’s desk in the office. So she knew exactly what time I arrived. The person who asked me to give the review said I was an hour late, and that we set it at 130pm and not 230pm, despite the fact that I remember setting it at 230pm just to make sure I had enough time to get there.

During the lecture, I was contacted by our vice chair, who is coordinating for the Science Summer Camp starting tomorrow. The students will only be given the waiver forms tomorrow, which means they’ll only be able to submit it on Thursday, the first day of stargazing.

The Vice President for Administrative Services wouldn’t approve the permit, because the students were outsiders and not covered by insurance. But isn’t that what the waiver forms are for? Besides, this is not the first time we’ve done this. The last time, during his term, it was also approved.

In fact, this is not the first time he has not allowed an astronomy-related overnight. Last year he would not allow us inside the campus on a Sunday night to photograph a lunar eclipse because he said the guards were on a skeleton crew and they would be severely undermanned to guard the faculty members.

This time, the Dean of the college would be the one to talk to him. In fact, if he persists, we will go straight to the Vice President of Academics and Research, who has been pro-science for as long as I’ve been here. Hope everything will be ironed out by tomorrow, where I still don’t know what my role is in the opening ceremonies and the acquaintance games.