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

I have an exam today because (I think I’ve already mentioned it before) the registrar’s office’s files still had my computer architecture class as being on a Saturday. And even though they knew I’m full time (and thus is not only limited to going to school on a Saturday) there’s also the possibility (which again they could have checked) that it’s the students who can’t be here on any other day than a Saturday because of their practicum training.

I’ve already whittled down the list of test takers today to three, but that doesn’t mean I can’t show up.

It just means there will be fewer papers to check, including that of one student who questioned me about the schedule before, and to whom I kind of, sort of, promised that it would be moved.

I was thinking if this is that one time out of all the others when I will be requesting for a change of schedule, just as slacker co-teacher does practically every term, and again, he’s not here most days.

Maybe it also has to do with the fact that the registrar’s personnel dealing with the finals schedule is part of his carpool, but that’s good in the sense that she knows what he’s asking him is wrong, and maybe (as it is already reflected on his record) someone will look into it soon.

But I backed off. After all, it was just this term that she told me that’s what she liked about me, that I had no complaints about whatever schedule for finals she posts or assigns for me.

That’s still my principle at work: if it’s no big trouble, I’ll obey with what the administration or the staff set for me.

That way, when I do ask for a favor, they’ll know it’s really important. But I also make sure I don’t get treated like a doormat.

Besides, doing what slacker co-teacher is doing, grabbing every opportunity not to go to work, gets imprinted in the brain of the others who work here whether they say it or not. I know already that the students are talking about it and not in a negative way at that, but as something to emulate.

How disappointed will they be when they realize that (just like that ECE finisher’s brother who did well even without passing the board) the opportunity he had to land him where he is now is not the norm, and that they will have a difficult time in following in those footsteps.

Unless, of course, they all opt to teach here after graduation, and exploit the same loopholes slacker co-teacher has, to get the same job stability and lack of censure or accountability.

And if that happens, that will only show his laziness and in that of those who does as he says and does all the more, and hopefully he will be reprimanded or even summarily dismissed.

Session 2485 didn’t realize the post would be ending with that from what was written at the beginning. Class dismissed.