Monday treats

The school term is winding down and I'm nearly done with giving lectures to my different classes. More and more of my time at the office is now spent grading quizzes, recording scores, double checking my class records and making exams and less on preparing lecture notes and presentation slides. In other words, things are not as hectic as they usually are--at least for the time being before there are once again exams to grade and grades to compute.

Anyway, since I normally have a class at 1pm, I would go out to buy lunch as early at 11:30am to beat the lunch crowd, But today having given my last 1pm lecture last week, I remained at my desk longer than usual before leaving to buy lunch at nearly 12:30pm. I got myself a chicken fillet sandwich with coleslaw and dalandan juice from KFC and two Mister Donuts chocolate doughnuts. One of the doughnuts turned out to be a surprise: it was sprinkled with cinnamon. Yum yum. I had not tasted cinnamon for ages. (The other was rolled in crushed peanuts.)

Then later in the afternoon, I heard the excited voices of some our younger staff outside in the hallway. After popping my head outside my door to see what was going on, I learned that ice cream was being served at the office kitchen. A couple of our instructors were celebrating their birthdays and were treating the rest of us to ice cream. There was palitaw as well and I got some to bring home for desert after dinner.