On commas and check marks (working title)

After 48 years, I'm here yet again.. For some reason, I only get to blog when there's something I don't wanna do. Yes, blogging is my favorite form of procrastination.

Here I am, sitting alone in my office on a Sunday morning. The campus is silent this time of year. The students or little monsters as I call them, have mostly gone home. It's the end of the semester afterall. Students who have made the exemption list on all their subjects have no reason to stay.

Wait, did I just lose you there? Okay. First things first. An update.

What have I been up to?

A lot has happened since my last blog. I got a job I was underqualified for. Moved to Cavite. Quit my job. Moved out of Cavite and now I'm back in... wait for it... Elbi.

I got a really good job at a pharmaceutical company. For some reason, the plant manager overlooked the muddy points in my curriculum vitae and gave me a job that was so much better than what I deem fit for me. Sabi na nga ba, nadadaan ang lahat sa charm.

The problem with that position is that it was a shortcut. I kinda wanted to find my way up the staircase. That's the only way I can learn. You see, after putting a comma cum laude and subsequently a comma RCh after my name, there's something else I need to do--better myself. The job I got provided a venue for me to escape the troubles I've put myself into. It was a fresh start... and a good one at that.

But then again, if I am to truly better myself, I cannot take an out. I cannot take shortcuts. I have to tie lose ends even if that means facing my demons.

So here I am. After briefly putting a comma unemployed after my name, I'm right where I need to be. I got a teaching position. The pay is decent and the job is very fulfilling. I actually don't think of it as job. It's more like a vocation. Hindi lang dahil buong sem akong di sumweldo. I kid, I kid.

Really, I have met people whose lives I seriously do not wan't to mess up. I am finding my self genuinely caring for my little monsters and I am earnestly wishing them all the best. I am a self-proclaimed screw up and have succumbed to the idea that entropy is out to get me. I mean honestly, there are a million things out there that I wouldn't mind screwing up  and yet I have found something I really really wish I wouldn't. Screw up, that is.

It's just a week after my last class and already, I find myself missing the little monsters. A break from work looms ahead and I'm already looking forward to the next semester. I intend to put a comma "best teacher in the world" after my name. For now, I'll settle on the commas I have.

Let's look at the list and put check marks where appropriate.

comma cum laude- CHECK
comma RCh- CHECK
comma unemployed- X (yay!)
comma "best teacher"- not quite yet. I'm gonna have to settle with comma "favorite teacher" for now. Winks. It doesn't matter if I haven't been officially declared their favorite teacher. What matters is that I feel that I am. Thank you for the great first semester, little monsters!