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

Well, my thesis advisee didn’t show up yesterday. And by the looks of things he’s not going to be here anytime today either.

One possibility I did not mention last time was that he might just give up and not pursue his degree anymore. I know at least one other student who was in the thesis stage and did that, although that one already had a part-time job at the time at the hospital his dad owned or something. From what I heard third-hand, he wasn’t keen on listening to his adviser either.

Last night Gerard, one of my former co-teachers now taking up Ph.D. research in Japan (and in the country for two weeks vacation) was inviting us to go to Island Cove in Cavite. This is after a massive text campaign he made Sunday suggesting we go to Puerto Galera on Monday.

Obviously, everyone freaked at how sudden the plans were, as well as being concerned about the typhoon that seemed to be looming. At least one of the guys I was with last May, Ronald, remembers the trouble we went through last May getting home from Mindoro across the choppy seas on the day before the start of the new term.

In fact, even if this was a day trip and they’ll be back again this evening, I teased him by text if he really wanted to tempt fate again and risk his luck having one last fling at rest and relaxation and possibly have a repeat of the travails getting home.

He replied that in his current schedule the last time he checked he didn’t have classes on Wednesdays. I just further teased him that he could stay an extra day then, and come home on Wednesday.

They were supposed to leave at 9am, and at quarter to 10 I received a call from Gerard on my celphone trying to convince me to go with them, as even the people I said won’t go because of evening commitments were joining them.

I apologized for having to turn them down again. I said that it would hurt my standpoint of professional indignancy if my thesis advisee showed up today and I wasn’t here to show that I waited for him. Besides, I wasn’t mentally prepared to join them on the trip, having already said the night before that I couldn’t go, even if I did have all the swimming gear here and could be packed in a few minutes.

But it turns out at least four of my junior co-teachers (excluding the academic service faculty) didn’t go with them, and were here in the office at various times of the day.

On another matter, I saw the Engineering laboratories personnel here in our building today, after they had already moved all of their equipment and supplies the past week or so. That means that starting tomorrow all the Engineering majors will be holding their mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and thermodynamics experiments here in the Science building. It will be a shorter walk for the teachers who will be handling those classes (I don’t have any laboratory class this coming term).

We are also going to implement only three to four students per group in the lab, which means a maximum of eight set-ups per class, and eight reports and notebooks for the teacher to check.