His internal time sense indicated it was precisely eight hundred hours. He automatically moved to the center of the dais and began today’s lecture on the variations in phrasing for present, present past, past, and distant past in Formal High Romulan. As always, he had reviewed and prepared his lecture notes ahead of time as always so there was no difficulty in starting the class with only part of his focus on his current surroundings. His students knew to listen and hold questions off until he reached the end of each block of lesson.