The Construct

I’ll be in the DynEd workshop for the next three days starting today. Later, to be exact. I’m actually blogging from UP Diliman.

The college has just recently inaugurated the Computer Room and that’s where I’ll be spending my next three days. Jeez. I can say I’m not too excited about it. I have my evaluations scheduled next week and they expect me to hand in my lesson plans by Thursday. I don’t even get time to prepare myself and my classes mentally for next week.

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I thought I was moving on nicely until two days ago.

I went into the department office to check my pigeon hole just in case one of my students left something for me there. A late assignment. Or some absentee trying to sneak in a class activity. My pigeon hole was empty but what greeted me instead were a few of my old mentors who, as some of the other junior faculty would describe, were waiting “to ambush some helpless prey.”

Needless to say, I was the prey that morning. The department needed some young blood to be present at the inauguration of the college’s computer room which was sponsored by the Villars (specifically, the wife of the one in Senate) scheduled Saturday. Since getting people to go to such functions has been an age-old problem with academics, they were “forcing” people to go. Being a newbie, there’s not a lot one can do when swarmed by the oldies.

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These had been around the web for quite sometime and now that the book is out, they now have a use.

You got to love subliminal messages.

Via Harry Potter Book Jackets

Sheesh. And I put the Matrix DVD on pause for a few minutes for again, a string of balderdash. It’s quite fitting I paused it just as Morpheus said “[The Matrix] is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth.”

Come to think of it, it’s the seventh time she strutted her stuff in front of Congress (and live TV) to feel oh-so-smug and revel in her “accomplishments.” Why not? There’s all the goodwill, progress, and grace that her reign has bestowed upon citizens of our great nation to be happy about. Hehehehuuurk…

Oh sure, talk about being first world in twenty years. Hey, why not? If that happens, I might create an offshore business elsewhere and force third-world kids to work in my sweatshops tailoring my branded designer jockstraps. Or possibly gene-splice the whale’s ambergris-producing DNA to them third-world kids, breed them, and sell their produce to France.

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If killing people isn’t a crime, I would have a good scalp count by now. While it’s pretty easy for me to give myself reason to kill, handing out unsolicited spoilers would be a crime against me that warrants death. And I guess for a lot of people too. Just read on the feel the sheer murderous rage flowing through this person‘s veins.

Oh yes, this could apply to the dozens of people who had their whole Harry Potter experience smothered by uncouth people handing out unsolicited spoilers. Talk about having loud mouths and total disrespect to fiction. I can really care less about this Harry Potter thing since I am not too big a fan to actually care, but the thought of that moment of suspended disbelief shattered by loudmouths makes by blood boil. But, say, if someone gave out the ending to Prison Break without me getting to watch it first, now I’m definitely going medieval on that person’s ass.

These people should have bullets popped in the back of their skulls. No judge. No jury (Heck, we don’t have juries anyway). Straight to execution.

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