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

I didn’t get to watch the Talent Quest.

I was cooped up in the faculty room helping one of my friends in the neighboring city with a program she needed ASAP, which I revised and sent over e-mail to her several times while she was on the phone telling me how close or how far it was from what she needed.

The maintenance staff entered once to ask where the soft drinks were that were supposed to be brought over to the room for the cast party of the recent play (to be held after the contest), and that was when I knew it was almost over.

All I know about what happened before and during the contest was that Sir Ronnie, who was the one who agreed to the students’ request to have the event moved from the same night as the opening of they play, was not there during the execution because of another program he was attending which affected the entire system.

There was also some fiasco about having one of the student organizers sign for the responsibility of the drum set and the other instruments, when all he was supposed to be in charge of was moving the equipment (and without the coordination of the people operating the elevator at that – so he had to lug two amplifiers up four flights of stairs).

Otherwise, everyone agreed that it was a success, including the dinner for the organizing committee afterwards, which they held across the wing from the cast party, and which people who were in both agreed was more fun than the cast party.

Some of the students were humble though and blew up their little mistakes for the night beyond any reasonable proportion.

The second session of my Advanced Mathematics class for the tenth week of the third term was the last that I would hold for them before the hands on exam, already firmly set for the first meeting of the eleventh week.

I told them to concentrate on the properties of the product of two sinusoidal functions, which they haven’t finished, considering that for the last two sessions they have been concentrating on two examples of the graph of the SUM of two functions.

I also gave them hints of how the time scale and the period of the combined function are mathematically related to the properties of the component functions. But they can obtain them the long way during the exam.

Before we ended for that period we had the random drawing of the twenty-minute slots of their exam for the next meeting, from 1pm to 220pm.

My mechanics lecture students also had another marketing fair where they would be down at the gazebo selling stuff, usually food, but sometimes bags, accessories and shoes.

They were passing around a letter to be initialed by the teachers. I told them that my signing of that document would not mean that they are officially excused, but that I have to have my own copy of the document for my files, signed by their teachers. Talk about getting the policies backwards. I’ll have to talk more about this next time. For now, class dismissed.