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

15 odd years ago when I started teaching in my alma mater college, my thesis mate and fellow applicant and I, during our first faculty summer outing there, enjoyed the company of two slightly only slightly older female co-teachers. Nothing romantic - at the time I was just excited to be beginning a new chapter in my academic and professional life, although I did tease her about my thesis mate, who eventually had to resign for personal reasons, and her best friend has her husband and children to go home to.

So, the Galatea and I ended up hanging around together after classes had started. She was the one who introduced me to mountain-climbing. Besides that we also both arranged for overnight stargazing sessions with our astronomy classes, although I handled the telescope for all the sessions.

Having graduated from a teaching college unlike me, it wasn't surprising that she would one day reprimand me for including trick questions in multiple choice type exams where the answer was "E. None of the Above" when they were taught that's only supposed to be the fallback of teachers who make grammatical or logical mistakes in the questions. But for us, that was the beginning of countless instances where she would account my mistakes.

She took seriously a joke/passing remark I made about leaving her alone to accompany our students to an astronomy quiz contest - when I was already there with them - saying specifically, "Do not shirk your responsibility."

One time I happened to have eaten lunch without her. She punched me very hard on the shoulder about it, that hurt so much I had to retaliate, and when I did, she answered, "How could you? I'm a woman." Well, act like one.

When my best friend graduated and was leaving for Japan and we were all having a goodbye dinner in a mall, she berated me afterwards for making her walk around so much when "I knew" she was in heels, and for being so quiet at one point in the evening that they couldn't enjoy our last night in each other's company. As if I had no reason myself to be sad about the impending departure at that time.

At one time I told her about what she was doing - saying if I wanted to be corrected all the time I would just stay at home and listen to my father, but since that was spoken on the bus that most likely flew over her head or wasn't given importance.

I'll continue this most likely three part year starter vacation reflection tomorrow.

Session 1959 knew about being an adult, but still behaves like a child. Class dismissed.