Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

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

Let’s go back to talking about a certain student for today, though he’s not in my classes this term.

He was listed to have taken the retreat with his batch mates last year, those with the same ID number.

I heard that he backed out, saying he’d rather go with the next batch, the one he believed he would graduate with.

I now take that with a grain of salt, because that’s exactly the kind of excuse someone would think he would have made, although he might not have wanted to go for other perfectly good (at least for him) reasons, such as not wanting to share a common restroom and bedroom with the others.

So now that it is that batch’s turn to have a retreat, I’m doing all things in my power to ensure he doesn’t go with them, because two of his “crushes” will be there.

We’re talking about almost 48 hours where they will all be in the same venue.

That means he can harangue them throughout the sessions, during the meals, and worse, outside their dorm room. If the dorm is on the ground floor, then it’s possible he might also be skulking by the windows. Of course we’d be there to catch him if he did, and maybe even have photographic proof of it at last, but why risk the “bait” that way when we have absolutely no control about what he might do while there and if we can control him.

So in that front, we’re covered, because for their batch, the twenty five slots for the retreat have already been filled, and there’s no possibility of sneaking him name in.

I wouldn’t put it past him to try and persuade someone else to switch slots with him.

But, when one of the students of that batch asked him if he had gone on the retreat, he had answered yes, with last year’s batch, which I know he didn’t do because I was there.

So worse than trying to spend more time with the girl he thinks he likes, if he thinks he can pass off having been in the retreat when he hasn’t, I’ll tell the mission office of that oversight.

If there’s really one place where he could show that he has normal social skills, it would be in the retreat.

Session 2525 wonders if his parents know he doesn’t have normal social skills. Class dismissed.