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

Something else I forgot to mention yesterday: this year's president of the Outdoor Club, who is also one of our majors, sent me a text message yesterday asking if her thesis proposal defense today could be moved to 240pm because she found out we have a departmental meeting at 1230-230pm. I told her I had a class from 230-330pm, so she asked if the defense could be at 340pm. I agreed.

This was a student who just gave me her thesis proposal last weekend, intimating that she'll probably have her defense by next week.

This is a rare occurence here in the department (I'm not sure about the other departments and colleges), having someone already work on their thesis even before it is proposed. At worst, in consideration to the student the panel will just add to her objectives instead of scrapping the experiment altogether, if her goal is found too easy to be considered a worthy subject.

In fact, I have been the panelist of a pair of students who have proposed and successfully defended their thesis even before they enrolled in any of the thesis subjects. So by the next term, when they finally enrolled, they didn't have to do anything and their adviser just had to submit a grade for them at the end of the term.

Yesterday was also the last meeting for my computer graphics class. I asked them to submit their disks with whatever exercises they finished at the end of the period (410pm), but that I was going to leave the disks with the secretary for them to pick up today, so that they could continue on the exercises and submit them tomorrow before the exam. Our exam is during the regular class period, in the computer lab.

The problem yesterday was: I had to leave the computer lab early to attend our meeting on the faculty manual revisions. We were the first presentors (the manual was divided into three sections for each group to tackle). We started at 330pm, and each group was supposed to be given 25 minutes to present their assessment of the assigned section. By the time our group finished, it was almost 5pm, so the next two teams will present another day.

That left me fifteen minutes to copy all the latest files from the students' disks to the hard drive, for faster checking later.

It was 513pm by the time I gave the disks to the secretary, but I was still able to catch the shuttle before it left at 515pm. In fact, two of my co-teachers were already there and two more (whom I had left in the faculty room) got to catch up and ride with us.

I was so panicked in the faculty room looking for other people I could hitch a ride with in case I missed the shuttle that I forgot to ask those who were going to the shuttle already to just ask the driver to wait for me a few minutes. Same with asking the others left in the faculty room if any of them were going to ride also.

Well, today were my last lecture meetings in astronomy. My thesis student showed up right before my first class. There was the last departmental meeting of the term between those classes. The thesis proposal where I was a panelist after my last class today.

But I guess I'll discuss all of those tomorrow.