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.

Finally I’m at school, after spending the first two days of the week out. I had the meeting with the dean earlier, postponed from yesterday as I had mentioned, I think. Did I talk about it?

Anyway, I was prepared to deliver updates on several of my pending tasks, such as the Eco Camp, the smoking ban and the school attire.

Surprisingly, that was not the topic but about my future. First of all, it was extracted out of me what I planned to do with my Master of Science studies, and some assurance was asked that if I do finish, I will return.

But as I said to the director of the school of engineering afterwards, if that is all it takes for them to take me back, then that means all the more that I will not finish it, to make sure they do not ask for me anymore.

Yes, I admit to being that traumatized. I would have expected this kind of still-friends-are-we behavior when I signified my intention of continuing, but not after. It just reeks of hand-washing and blame-pointing.

Like what allows them to sleep at night is the knowledge that someone else made the final decision about the career development of someone else, when it fact it was the poor evaluation they submitted to that person that pushed the cart over the edge of the cliff, so to speak.

So I was asked about the possibility of still teaching part-time, particularly since it is a computer architecture subject to be offered.

At the same time I was told that our recent graduate who is a part-time teacher and full-time programmer will not be teaching anymore next term. What surprises me is that when I talked to the head of the information technology office about passing on the application of another programmer I know of, I was told that that part-time teacher is being asked to be a full-time teacher, even though I do not know how that actually prevents them from hiring another CS graduate, especially since just last January someone else quit their offices and therefore there is another vacancy.

Anyway, this for me means that it is not really reliable to listen to what these office heads talk about outside of meetings, because it seems that they will twist the truth for their own ends, present case confirming.

I had to decline the offer anyway. I said that my concentration now is in the province to the south, and therefore not like at this time where most of my time is spent in this area, next time it will not be the case.

And that was when I gave the example of what had happened that made me miss the April 9 excursion.

Again the dean shocked me with her way of boiling down the situation into something that makes only perfect sense if it disregards everything else that has been considered at that point.

She asked me: So why did you not just follow to the excursion site after you missed the pick- up time?

Does she think I did not think about that? I was at one end of a ten kilometer stretch of road that had been gridlocked for at least an hour, even though it was reported by passing vehicles that the accident between a bus and a truck blocking most of the road happened at least two hours earlier.

Session 3043 will continue this narrative tomorrow. Class dismissed.