So I got locked out of my own office for almost the entire day. The keys just refused to work--original, duplicate, no go. I think this is the third time this week, and becoming more and more frequent. Sometimes the door would open after a few jiggles and a shove; other times, after I've tried opening it for like a quarter of an hour and I've been ( Read more... )

1. Kauwi ko lang sa bahay ng mga magulang. Ngayon lang dahil tinapos ko pa muna lahat ng grades sa mga klase ko. Sa wakas ( Read more... )

1. My Formerly Invisible Roommate and I are wondering how our next door neighbor can have such rapport with her students. They're so effing happy it's a crime.

2. So this is how democracy works: Be like stalks. Interesting view from a devil as written by a supposedly "Christian" writer.

3. David Pogue gives tech tips for the basic computer ( Read more... )

is how one writing professor called his day job of teaching creative writing in a university. Interesting article in the New York Times about how most writers now teach in universities instead of throwing themselves full time at writing ( Read more... )

1. Nag-umpisa ako last Monday. Maaga pa lang nasa Shopping Center na ako. Lahat ng computers sa paligid ko ay yung cheerdance clips ng UP ang pinapanood sa YouTube. There are details you can get from watching the clips again and again kesa live. Like I didn't really notice na may nalaglag pala sa UP dun sa "Tribu" part at hindi naitaas ng maayos ( Read more... )

1. Friday is the longest day ever. On Fridays, I have 3 classes to teach and one grad course to attend. So I'm in school from 8.30AM to 7PM. Only thing I wanted to do was eat, take the train home and sleep, hoping for longer hours in bed since it's the weekend. This is the day I usually ask myself: How long can I keep this up ( Read more... )

1. I still have some changes I want to make in my class kits. Will take care of it tomorrow, while all the freshmen are in the welcome assembly ( Read more... )

The neighbors thoughtfully turned up their radio's volume just in time for the announcer to wake me up with the news that actor Rudy Fernandez succumbed to cancer at 6.48 this morning.

Kasangga is gone.

Universe, tell me some good news, please.

I just finished checking a stack of student papers. In FC. On Black Saturday. When I arrived here this afternoon, it was really really hot, and the plugs did not have a watt of electricity in them. And the hallways were rather dark too. Buti na lang nagkagulatan kami ni Manong Guard sa madilim na hallway and I was able to ask him to please turn on ( Read more... )

are but a dream, sabi ni George Orwell, in his "Why I Write" essay ( Read more... )