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

Yesterday I finished discussing the constellations in all my classes. Well, almost all. I have one and a half more constellations to discuss in my 1030am class for Wednesday, before I give them the personal constellation activity.

That's because during the first half of the class, I gave them a recitation on the constellations we've discussed so far since the last recitation. We were in the middle of the second to the last constellation, the Southern Cross, when I realized it was almost time, so I decided to cut it short.

This is the first term in quite some time that I didn't discuss all the constellations in the first two to three weeks of classes. I had the feeling the students might have been overloaded by all that information in such a short period of time, that's why I have tried to parcel it out slowly instead.

I also gave them the sheet to be copied for the personal constellation activity on Wednesday.

In my 1250pm class, since we finished the discussion at 143pm, that was when I gave them the Messier object library research.

In my 230pm class, which I told to prepare for a surprise recitation last Friday, they were a little put off guard when I started discussing the last five constellations. But everytime that I would refer to a previous lesson and they couldn't answer immediately, that was when I would start reaching for the index cards. I didn't actually get to call out names though until I listed down the 20 brightest stars, and asked them from what constellations these were.

There were some who wanted to make up for having missed answering some of the 20 stars, so I asked them some more questions afterwards, on the same constellations that are part of the second exam I asked the 1030am class.

I also announced by the way that the second long exam is on Nov. 24, Monday, before the holiday, as requested by my 1030am class. Then I have to abide by that schedule for all three classes, even though the 230pm College of Education class requested for Friday, Nov. 28. I could attempt having the second and third classes have the exam first instead of always the 1030am class, but not this time.

The coverage of the exam, by the way, is the constellations from Grus onwards (where we stopped before the last exam), and the Cycles of Nature from Tides onwards (although it might be just Tides at that).

Since my final exams are never comprehensive, that means that none of the constellations will be included in the finals, but only the topics covered from after the second exam until the last week of classes. Earlier one of the students in my 230pm class misunderstood that we've finished all the topics *for the term* when I corrected her that we haven't finished with all the Cycles of Nature yet.

The schedule for finals exams has been released, by the way, for all colleges except CBE. That means my College of Education astronomy class already has a schedule, but the College of Business and Economics ones don't. I hope they don't have separate schedules again like last term, although it would mean having to find another proctor, instead of me proctoring two out of my three classes. I still have to wait for what the chairman decides or may already have requested the CBE office about the date and time of the astronomy class finals.

As of now, either case will be fine with me.