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

Well, here I am in the department waiting for the last nineteen people who gave me money yesterday for the field trip. Of course that means I had to either give them my celphone number to get their ticket from me at the site itself, or have them pick the tickets up here.

I decided on the latter.

I guess I made a mistake agreeing to buy them tickets after all, because it is extra work on my part. But the first person who asked if he could still buy tickets agreed to drive me to and from the park's Makati office, so I was assured of easy travel. That's why I agreed to the other requests for more tickets also.

Worst case scenario: he doesn't show up to bring me to Makati. Sure he doesn't get his ticket, but if I don't go, I'll also have to disappoint the rest of the people who gave me their money. So I had to leave the department yesterday at 4pm to make sure I got to the sales office before they closed at 5pm. Luckily I asked the secretary to call the office just as I left, because I got there past 5pm, and they would not have let me in if it weren't for the fact that I called, and our trip was for the next day.

Worse, one student who can't pick up his ticket this morning, or ask his classmates to pick it up for him, was waiting for me back at the department, even though I gave my ETA to be 7pm. Further pressure to go back to the department, even though I wanted to try the re-offered veggie burger meal at Burger King, even though it was now worth half more than when they first sold it.

I only know of one of my co-teachers who will also be going later, and at least she will be there after I am, because she'll be leaving here at 11am, and I'm leaving at 9am.