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

Just finished my exam at 10am: typing, printing, mimeographing, collating.

Arrived in the department at 6am just to be sure that I had enough time to finish the exam, since I did not have enough time to make it last Friday and Saturday.

During my first class 1030am, I found out that there are no less than 4 errors in the questions (5 including incorrect instructions), and I forgot to give the bonus question about listing down the 20 brightest stars.

Instead of writing all the corrections on the board though, I opted to type and print it out then staple it to the remaining 80+ test papers for the 1250pm and 230pm classes.

In my 1250pm class, I caught one student looking at a table (that was referred to in the test) from his open bag in front of him. I was already suspicious that this six-foot tall guy was stooping so that his head was lower than the student in front of him. When a classmate of his had a question near one of the sidewalls, I got a better look at the transgressor's activity, and I took his paper. He left the room not long after that.

We'll see if he tries to come back to class on Friday or if he knows the consequences of his actions.

Friday, after all, I had the stargazing session that was at 5pm (since the sky darkens earlier during this season).

It was some time ago that I stopped discussing the Greek story associated with the constellations, and only give them the appearance, the name and the brightest stars (if any). That's because it's also been some time since I last had to show them Perseus and Andromeda. But I did give minimal references to the movie "Clash of the Titans" and the other related constellations, Cassiopeia (also in the movie "Serendipity"), Cepheus, Pegasus and Cetus.

My co-teacher Gilbert was also still there, and when I tried to refer to something he said he lectured on last week, he said that this was a different class! I guess he really meant it when he said before that the stargazing session will have no postponement even if the viewing does not push through.

After the lecture he was already trying to usher them out of the room, but I least gave them the consolation of being able to the panorama from what used to be the highest point on campus.

There were still clouds, but there was a high wind that made Mars sporadically visible, and the brightest star of Taurus visible in the clear East. The wind was towards the West.

Gilbert seemed to realize this, and he discouraged the students from asking to see Mars through the telescope because it would be covered up again soon anyway. Same with ushering them down from the roofdeck again before the wind blew the last of the clouds westward and we had the same cloudless sky visible in the East.

So that's how we finished at 7pm. I have another stargazing later, for another co-teacher of mine, Michelle.

We'll see how that works out, considering it was cloudy all morning, but it seems to be clearing up.