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.

Case Closed: I was able to solve a mystery - particularly a disappearance - today by the most unlikely means ever.

A mother of a student came over in campus today to process (as in get signatures for the clearance) for the withdrawal of her daughter from the college, after just having processed her leave of absence for last term.

The daughter failed a basic math subject twice in the first two terms, and was in low spirits for the third term that she took a break from studying, with the mother's consent. But it wasn't until she tried to enroll again for the first term that she was told she is considered AWOL without the LOA form.

That was during the first week of the term. Now the mother was signing for a clearance again.

Why? Her daughter had run away from home last June 2. She admitted that she scolded her daughter for having a boyfriend.

Mother found out because of a letter she found in the closet from a boy with the words "HAPPY MONTHSARY", telling the mother exactly that they had been together without the mother's knowledge since December.

After that, the mother found out that the daughter had left home on the midnight of June 2 with two huge suitcases.

She was met at the gate by somebody in a car, not a taxi. I don't know if this is the neighbors or the maids who saw, or if they even have maids at home, who would have received flak if they had not stopped the girl.

The mother went to school to ask the friends, and they all didn't know where their friend is, or denied knowing.

The boyfriend, wanting to make amends with the mother, even went to their house afterward offering to help.

She had already filed a missing person report with the PNP and the Vice Mayor's office with a picture for an APB.

Then when I went on a social network earlier, I saw that the same girl had approved my friend request just four hours earlier.

I went to her page, and there were two public messages there from one of her friends (not from school) first saying that friend's managers asking her to be part of a "mini shoot", then another asking her to be absent from school for one week ("please? Please?" with accompanying elongation of vowels).

Looking at the friend's page, she's based in Singapore, which explains the two big suitcases as well as her mobile phone not being reachable.

Now I'll turn over these facts to the Registrar's Office, the Guidance Counselor and the Dean and President's Office.

They're the ones with the contact information of the mother, after all.

Maybe now they'll reconsider blocking access to these social networks from the school's computers.

Session 2681 is sure the student will understand the need for someone considered a friend to "rat her out". Class dismissed.