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

Just finished my most demanding day of the week again. My co-teachers thought I didn’t have lunch when I went through 3 different dishes for our afternoon snack in the cafeteria, but it’s just that after two and half hours of standing, whatever I had for lunch had already been burned up.

All three of my astronomy classes are more or less on the same track. After Monday, though, where I’ll be giving a quiz for two one-hour classes and one hour-and-a-half class, the latter may have to be rushed a little again in the next meeting to keep up with the two hours each of the other classes by the end of the week.

Today I took up mostly constellations, giving a lot of entertaining stories and facts (at least I hope so) for the students. In one class I used up their quota of warnings for celphones not turned off (or put on silent) during the class, so I told them the next offender will get his or her phone confiscated, just like one of my co-teachers did last week. I don’t know if I can really keep a student’s phone for a week though, so maybe just a trip to the Discipline Office to secure a note back to class will do. But usually after I give a warning the whole class heeds it already.

For the hour-and-a-half class, after the constellations we had the review for the quiz, where I just put up the questions on the overhead projector. After we had discussed them all though, the students insisted on photocopying the transparency. I wonder if my other two classes will do that on our review Wednesday.

In my programming class, we discussed floating-point variable type formats, and Boolean operations. I also gave them the general gist of their hands-on exercise for Wednesday, which will be to find out from somewhat complex “AND” and “OR” statements if the data given by a job applicant is enough to get them the job or not.