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.

We had a faculty meeting today. The dean wants to know when we can have a Constituent Assembly activity like they do on other campuses. The problem is we have to go a lot further than other campuses do (which is just outside their gate) to be able to be heard by the citizens in the protest.

@@ Our technician went to work today for the first time in about two weeks. For most of the days I've been the one to get the keys to the engineering faculty room from the guard at the central lobby.

The school of engineering just had their regular meeting last Monday and it was there that it was said they were going to ask for a reliever.

Isn't that supposed to be automatic? After all, we do have to protect the equipment in the laboratory.

@@ Apparently the technician was hospitalized, but not for the flu of the moment. Still, we weren't informed.

@@ I'm here at the student center right now. There are some students playing a Monopoly rip-off.

Earlier there were about thirty students here, and I didn't know that they were here for the announcement of the results of the freshmen elections. Not surprisingly, all the candidates, who all came from one party, got elected.

Three of them were unopposed, so they had to get fifty percent plus one of the votes, which they got.

The other two that won ran against another candidate from the same party. They said they were okay with it, that whoever won among them, they would still help out. I guess that's the spirit of service for you, not just wanting to win so badly over the other person for the entitlement.

Wow, that's a zinger worthy of the student accessible version; maybe I should post it there instead.

@@ The official student publication is asking for money to buy shirts for their staff. This is after more than a year that they haven't produced anything. And the editor in chief wants the publication to be recognized to the point that she wants official documentation credentials for all school functions; so much for telling them to pick their battles then. They certainly have their priorities planned out.

Thankfully their erstwhile adviser is backing me up in telling them that their first order of business should be in putting out an issue of the publication that the students can hold in their hands.

If they are going to bandy around that they have a publication fee being charged in their tuition, then they should know that ought to be going back to printing something out for the students, and not to go to their thousands of pesos per students cost of training that they will have to show is worth it anyway. How will they do that? It would be by coming out with a publication; chicken and egg.

Now I'm writing in runny nose sentences. That's what I get for moderating the F.M.L. website in the background, not that it's a reason to say screw the whole works. That's so exaggerated.

Session 2727 is thankful that the guidance office not only caters to the students but can also be counted on as a shoulder than will listen - and yes, I'm intentionally mixing worn out phrases. Class dismissed.