Welcome to the madness..

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Dear Lord, let me be Your instrument for good things.

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I keep reassuring myself.

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Found two footnotes from a source for thesis: "1. MANAGER, SUPERVISOR and COUNSELOR will be used interchangeably, and will be referred to in this book by the masculine gender and pronoun HE. 2. EMPLOYEE, SUBORDINATE, COUNSELEE and CLIENT will be used interchangeably, and will be referred to in this book by the feminine gender and pronoun SHE." Aba loko 'to, ah. How discriminating!

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I used to take my time in writing intricate details on my Starbucks Planner.  I would make sure this would happen on this date at that time at that place.  However, this wouldn't really happen exactly the way I would want them to materialize.

So I figured, just for a change, why not just put general details and not engross myself too much on scheduling activities at exact times?  Surprisingly, I am able to make things happen more.  Compared to those times that I would plan and plan and plan, listing activities for semestral break not on specific days made me look at my agenda as a whole--what I was going to do first, what were my priorities, et cetera.  It's good to remember the implementation in my head first, before putting them on paper.

Scheduling is very much similar to writing Programs of Instruction (POI's) for Wing 3 Operations.  In Ateneo ROTC, the timetables are not supposed to enslave the flight leaders in trying to implement the activities for that training day.  Instead, they're supposed to serve as just guides or blueprints as to what are supposed to be implemented.  As my then-senior officer would always tell me, POI's are not always meant to be implemented exactly the way these are written.  Of course, allotting for idle times must also be taken into consideration, during times when the Military Training Instructors (MTI's) from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) would come to the training grounds at a later time.  Officers should be flexible enough to adjust the timetable for the cadets.

In the same manner of creating schedules for school work, family time, gimmick with high school friends, dates with significant other, and the like, I'm not really supposed to enslave myself with the schedule that I have written.  I don't have to chase time; time has to work for me.  Because in the end, it's not time that does the helping and empowering--it is I who makes these things happen.

(I muse that tomorrow will be the start of my last semester, provided that I just don't screw up with my subjects.  Then, I look at my graduation countdown and I just turn giddy because in just a hundred or so days, I'm off to the real world!)

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Third day was great!  I finally loosened up because I've been very shy to them.  I had the chance to interview wonderful people.  This doesn't feel like work at all.  It's cognitively demanding, but it's like play.

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Second day was quite a bummer, but only because I was able to finish lots of stuff ahead of time.  People were really nice, too.  I clearly saw how school concepts were integrated in the organizational setting.

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First day was zeh bomb.  I've been learning.

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I am very very very very very very excited to do fieldwork!  Ahh, I can't even contain it.    I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.  I'm getting ready with my materials.