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

v\Today I’m supposed to accompany the ECE graduates and some of the younger students in a seminar that is supposed to be relevant to their taking the board. The dean has set it as a condition that they cannot go unless a teacher goes with them.

Unfortunately, none of the other teachers are available to join them, especially our most prominent ECE licensee, slacker co-teacher. That fact alone, that he is the most prominent one we got, shows how half-baked our system is.

Besides the fact that he doesn’t like early morning classes (which it’s both good and bad that the students know about) he also can’t be bothered on weekends. It’s good because if the administrators ever need witnesses as to his laziness, the students can provide testimony. It’s bad because the students – even subconsciously – are getting influenced by his bad behavior.

I will accompany the graduates, since otherwise they will lose the opportunity, but I don’t have to like it that I will be late for another appointment two provinces over that is supposed to start in the early afternoon.

Besides that, there’s also the fact that I had to wake up early on what is supposed to be the second day of a three day weekend and go to school. Instead of going to my afternoon appointment straight from home, I also have to travel going there from school, which is farther and more expensive.

Part of the problem is that I was only informed about it on Wednesday, and the Student Affairs staff that was supposed to handle it had to leave all the paperwork because of their recollection for which they had to leave Thursday noon.

What’s surprising is that on Thursday early evening, hanging out with some of the engineering students (who were drinking outside the school of course) one of them who had to be helped to walk around after getting tipsy asked me a very accurate question: if I was tired of teaching. I answered yes.

At that point I was, because of the rumor spreading about having no classes that spread that morning.

When I was asked why I didn’t take a leave, I said I was supposed to, but the Dean won’t allow me, because when I told him about my decision last term, he instead went on to process the option that would keep me in school this term. I followed out of obedience and supposed gratitude for his cutting through the red tape.

Session 1861 was surprisingly revelatory after the usual ranting start. Class dismissed.