Annual office clean-up

Another beautiful sight for sore eyes--for me at least--was that of my clean office. I spent most of this afternoon dusting, sorting and filing away papers, and rearranging a few things. Although I must have been a strange sight wearing a mask to protect my sensitive nose from all the dust my cleaning sent flying about--some of my colleagues thought I was wary of contracting rabies after yesterday's scare--it was a relief to see my office afterwards finally free of all a year's worth of clutter and piles of old exam papers.

Noontime bath

The sun was beating down and the air stifling hot as I walked down to have lunch in one of the eateries outside campus around 1pm. It made me envy the two little maya birds who were enjoying a bath in one of the sidewalk puddles of rainwater leftover from yesterday's rains.