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

After changing the display several times since last week, the prayer warriors “booth” was finally ready yesterday with the tent, the stuffed military uniform, the forms and the drop box at the landing on top of the stairs from the middle entrance.

Being a prayer warrior, it turns out, means offering a certain amount of daily prayers for the intention of one’s family and school. It wasn’t clear about the duration though. Could be until the end of the term or the year. So it’s only something that began with founder’s day and bible week, but didn’t end there.

During lunch yesterday the faculty members were to vote for three representatives to the hiring and promotions board. Luckily the secretary was there when I wrote down my votes because she told me that the directors were disqualified since they were part of the board already.

When the votes were tallied, Maila was first choice at nearly a landslide with almost 82% of the votes. Ronnie was next with over 45% of the votes. They were both people I voted for.

But it seems that almost 19% of the faculty voted for one of the directors, which makes their third votes not counted.

A checklist of valid nominees should have been the ballot instead of a strip with just three blank lines.

Unfortunately, there is a tie for the third representative between Father Ben (my third choice) and I with a little over 36% of the votes. It might have been a three-way tie, but the secretary pulled the tally sheet away from me before I could see.

So those who voted for the director would have to cast their third vote again, to break the tie for third place. The secretary doesn’t want me to know who those are in case I ask them to change their vote.

As if I couldn’t have declined if I really wanted to had I been voted in as a representative?

Yesterday I also helped the secretary tabulate the results of the students’ evaluation from last term, which had to be submitted to the Dean. There was a little confusion about whether the responses of “not applicable” and blank should be included in getting the average of a rating of one to seven (they weren’t), but after several trips to the Dean’s office (that included me being dragged down there), it had all been ironed out.

I got an overall average rating of 6.24, up from 5.89, our initial calculation, where the average among the faculty members we computed was about six, which is up from the first term, where the secretary said some teachers were rated at twos and fours.

This I attributed to the students not understanding the evaluation two terms ago, because otherwise that means all the teachers’ methods have improved dramatically three months afterwards.

I guess I should accept that there are times those who employed us are aiming to boost our image (and theirs in the process) instead of pulling us down.