Valentine rose Explored!

Yipee! I have just discovered that another of my photos on Flickr made it to Explore. It's currently ranked 300 among photos uploaded on 15 February 2008. I recall having to take several photos before I hit on an angle and perspective that seemed to work best. Thank God for digital photography, else I would have gone through one or two rolls of film!

Well fed and fed up

After finally getting rid of our curricular proposals this morning, I treated myself to a Big Mac for lunch only to remember that we were served hamburger sandwiches during the meeting as a late morning snack. Anyhow, it was a welcome change after having chicken for lunch practically everyday. But I felt I had eaten enough for the day so that when our admin staff had some sotanghon, spaghetti and pan de sal brought to the office late this afternoon to celebrate his daughter's graduation from college I skipped eating the usual merienda and just brought home sotanghon to eat for my dinner.

A long name

Among the list of names of students graduating this semester is one with five first names--a bizarre blend of Spanish and Greek names--constituting a total of 33 letters. The people engraving names on the diplomas will sure have a h--- of a time trying to fit all that on the certificate! I also wonder what the poor fellow's signature looks like.

Over the hill

Na, I am not referring to my age (I am getting there though) but rather to the curricular proposals I had been in-charge of for the past few months. I have just seen them through the final processing stages this morning during a major meeting which virtually assured that they would be approved at the highest level of the administration. It was one of the many things I had long been waiting to get rid of, so to speak, before I could more or less settle down and begin to enjoy the less hectic summer term. Of course, I have just caught sight of a few more hills looming in the distance but I have decided not to worry about scaling those for the time being.