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.

It was already all laid out in the student accessible version, everything I was going to rant about for today, so that leaves me with very little to talk about here, at least on that subject.

What I actually did not get to talk about yesterday due to prioritizing the chronology of events to be written on is that when I got back to school from that contest, I was surprised to see the president of the student council in the student center start jumping for joy.

She had apparently just received a text message from the dean laying out the conditions of what they needed to do for the approval of their concert tomorrow to be allowed.

First of all, this means that despite our meeting last Tuesday, the president had been bugging the dean about eventually giving in to their request. This, in itself is bad, in that they do not know when to give up, even if it means only have two days to prepare for their event.

Besides, believing that they can talk their way out of any obstacle that faces them is very unrealistic.

As the very wise song of Kenny Rogers said, you have to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run. That gives me an idea therefore of using poker as a learning activity in the next leadership camp.

They, after all, cannot always keep betting and hoping that they will always win. They should look at their resources, at the strength of the obstacles in front of them and judge.

They also refused to listen to the voice of reason, labeling it instead of be the voice of negativity and pessimism.

This was evident in the fact that they did not want to even look at one of their officers who believed that they really did not have enough preparation to be able to pull of the event successfully in two days.

But that did not stop them from trying to work things out, in their own flimsy execution of planning.

They believed they could pull it off with only ten volunteers, which they only started looking for right there and then.

And maybe, just maybe, they did not tell the dean the truth that out of the fifty thousand pesos talent fee that the band originally asked for to perform, of which they already paid half, the belief of the president that they only had to pay five thousand pesos more did not mean that the band was apologetic for not showing up due to the rain and the postponement that it caused, but that it was on top of the rest of the twenty five thousand they had to pay, as some sort of rescheduling fee.

Maybe I should get an interview with the provider of the sound system as well and get their side of the story.

Session 3015 sees more work ahead instead of less. Class dismissed.