it's already the 2nd semester and it's officially my first day back to work today. after two weeks of vacation, it's hard to wake early and get up to work again. i had to use two alarm clocks this morning just to make sure... but well i think i pressed the snooze button of both alarms more than 10x! so hard to revert to your old daily routine after a long peaceful break. and repeating what i once tweeted a few weeks back, if only i don't need the pocketmoney i would choose not to get up and work.

with a total teaching load of 9 hours (6 hrs lecture + 3 hrs laboratory) for my first day this second semester, i knew it'll be a tough day. well, true enough, i almost had an outburst earlier when i caught two of my students "conspiring" during a mid-lecture quiz. student A was intentionally exposing her paper s0 that student B can have a view of her answers. how so creative and new! being a college professor for 6 years, kabisado ko na ata lahat ng style ng pangongopya ng mga estudyante. and i tell you, i am the teacher you will hate once i catch you doing so. if receiving a major offense or incident report doesn't scare you, ihanda mo na ang konsensya mo sa "psychological torture" na ibibigay ko sa'yo each time i am the teacher in front. i make sure that i throw words that will surely pierce your heart yet unknowingly embarrass your conscience. oo, nambabara't nandedeadma talaga ako at paparinggan talaga kita hanggang sa mahiya ka sa kasalanan mo at hindi ako titigil hangga't wala akong nakikitang pagbabago sa'yo. verbal abuse, ika nga. LOL!

anyway, i excused myself from my class for a few minutes just to cool down. and there's no better way to cool yourself down than this:

FIC Lite Pistachio Ice Cream

So habang nasa classroom sila at inaaway ang kaklase nilang nangopya, i was inside the faculty office drowning on this yummy pistacchio ice cream. i had to eat it slowly coz the pistachio bits kept going to the left side of my molars where my wisdom tooth is impacted. *eeyoowchhh!*

and speaking of my impacted tooth, i've been having difficulty eating lately becoz of it. my wisdom tooth on the left seems to ba having a hard time erupting. a portion of the tooth is already exposed above my gumline but it feels like it's growing on the wrong direction like the one in the picture, thus causing pain and swelling. i already called my dentist-friend about it and she advised me to have a panoramic xray first so that she'll have an idea of my tooth's growth orientation before we go for surgery. i'm still waiting for the next payday so that i can budget my money. ang hirap ng may impacted teeth, hindi lang ngipin mo ang sasakit, kundi pati bulsa! i'm planning to have this removed anytime during the weekend until next week.

ooh well, i hope things would turn out a little better at work tomorrow. :) crossing my fingers.