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

The second trimester of the school year will start on Monday. This is the last day of the term break when the school will be open, and we have a six-hour seminar later, from 9am to 4pm, on “Classroom Management.”

I hope that I will have some things to talk about that next week.

For now, some leftovers from the previous days: while David was in Baguio, the air soldering stations he ordered arrived. I had to be the one to receive them. The most important piece of advice the purchasing officer (not the delivery man) gave me (or us, the end users – I know all sorts of supplier/acquisition jargon now) was that we had to remove the red screw from the bottom of the casing before they can solder properly. The worst-case scenario is: the unit might blow up.

I put warnings on the tops of the equipment after I had them brought over to David’s cubicle. At the same time I also sent a text message to David about their arrival and precaution, and he acknowledged receipt the message.

Besides that, I had to sign off also on the robotics lab equipment that outgoing School of Engineering head Doc Elmer had to return to get his last paycheck. It was another engineering teacher, Aldous, who came up with the list, but he wasn’t there on Doc Elmer’s last day. So I was the one who had to initial his final clearance, same as when Maila did before she left.

The CPU for the video system monitoring the robot soccer field and the printed circuit boards for the small cube wheeled robots that he brought with him before I also dumped in David’s cubicle.

A follow up on Pancho’s enrollment: he was finally able to get academic advising with Sir Joel on Wednesday, almost a week since he was last here. Confirming my suspicions, he did fail in one subject, and lie to the Registrar’s personnel. Although, I’m not sure if that subject will change the list of subjects he can take with the sophomore block this coming term. But at least I didn’t have to coddle him.

Follow up on Domingo: his grade has been changed at the Registrar’s Office. Through the secretary he was sent a text message about his status, but he didn’t reply and I don’t know if he’s added Graphics Two as a subject yet.

By the way, due to the conflict with the two mechanics laboratories I was assigned, I will not be handling Graphics Two next term. It will be Aldous. He will be in the same boat I was this same time last year, when the teacher in Graphics One went abroad to continue his studies and I had to pick up where he left off.

The only difference is that I’m still here to guide him, and Aldous has agreed to continue with my method of teaching the software, and has agreed when I said I will keep making the exercises for the students to complete, but he will be the one to check their work.

At least I won’t have to deal with Deiv for one whole term, maybe more.

On the other hand, I will be handling one section of Math 1 repeaters (who failed under Maila and Aldous last term for six hours a week, the first time since I last handled it for half that number of hours three terms ago. David will be handling the other - something to look forward to for the next fourteen weeks. Over and out.