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.

Beside the fire alarm earlier, something else that was going on here in the campus yesterday was an apparently clogging in one of the bowls (the end one in fact, nearest the urinals) of the third floor east wing rest room.

There were two maintenance personnel looking at it (or at least approaching it with caution or trying to flush it from a distance) when I first passed by on the way to the faculty room at the other wing (that was to get my exchange gift recipient) and when I returned, they were already outside at the hallway and one kept covering his mouth with his little towel. Also, I noticed the floor of the restroom was slick.

Well, of course what can one conclude from that but that the students tried to flush something again that would not take.

Up to today, that errant cubicle is still locked, maybe from the inside, so that no one will use it, or be disgusted at what it looks like.

@@ Going back to our double substitution yesterday, it was already in the afternoon when the teacher who called in sick asked what had happened to her class, so it was then that I admitted it was someone else who taught.

Now, this teacher had said there was a book at the photocopiers that was supposed to be handouts for her students.

When we looked at it, instead of simple substitution of equations of exponents and logarithms, it was in fact dealing with graphs.

So, even though I told my young colleague to go for the easier to explain and practice topic, he still went for graphs.

And the teacher told him that it really was supposed to be only equations and solving, not drawing of graphs.

@@ After having placed a form for change of time, change of room, alternative class and make up class on the desk of the director of the school of engineering and not receiving it back, yesterday I found out why.

It was also because the faculty attendance checker, getting tired of waiting for my form for the technicality of swapping the consecutive lecture and lab classes for Friday (230pm to 8pm) and for the alternative class of bringing the students to the candle prayer vigil last Wednesday, brought me a form in my room.

Instead of leaving it at the desk of the director this time, I waited for him to arrive, only to be told he is not my director anymore.

Well, does that mean that he believes he is only handling the full time teachers of engineering classes?

Do he and the dean have an understanding that all part-time teachers are directly under the dean?

Thankfully and in the spirit of how half-baked all policies here are, he still signed my form, and now it is up to the dean.

But if I want to be able to do these forms again next term and well in advance, I really have to clarify who will sign it, especially if the director will refuse to again. If he refuses again; maybe he has accepted it.

Session 2887 does not like working with the computer beside the phone during the day; too many interruptions. Class dismissed.