Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Another first: classes suspended at 1pm on the second day of classes. I saw a lot of what I assumed are freshies standing around in the plaza and in the wet-floor lobby of the new administration building, most likely waiting for their parents or drivers to confirm being picked up from school.

Today I also saw a co-teacher of mine start working here again, after more than two years of staying in Pampanga with her husband, and teaching in one of the universities there. She’s only teaching part-time and has load for Tuesdays and Thursdays though, which makes it difficult for her to meet with her best friend, another of my co-teachers who only has classes on MWF, and on her days off she has to stay home all the way in Diliman to take care of her seven-month old baby. At the very least they’re now working in the same research group.

My returning co-teacher took the desk next to mine, which was vacated by another co-teacher who is finishing his doctorate thesis.

In our four-desk corner of the department, the new hiree who applied and had her teaching demo yesterday took the last remaining desk formerly of another part-timer who will be starting to teach full-time in a high school in Thailand middle of June. Since this new teacher’s name is the female derivative of my name, and everyone around here is used to calling me by my name’s Spanish equivalent, it got a little confusing earlier.

My thesis student also called earlier, asking if he could meet with me today to ask about how some equations the book he is using were derived. A little later he called again to say he couldn’t leave the house because of the flood. So maybe tomorrow then.