I am taking advantage of being able to surf using MY computer again. So this is going to be long. This is most likely caused by the generous amount of caffeine I consumed today not because I need to be awake but to add stickers to friends’ Starbucks cards.

As said, I am blogging now using MY computer. Yes, this after getting confused, worked up, ( Read more... )

I told myself I will not whine as much and I will take everything as it comes. It’s very hard given my personality but I will try. Really hard.

Tonight wrapped up the first meetings of my 3 classes. So much for getting-to-know-yous, which aren’t really important in graduate school. You say something about yourself in 30 seconds and that’s it. On ( Read more... )

I woke up late as planned and was amused by what I saw on TV - back-to-back episodes of Cheers and Friends. I have not watched a single episode of Cheers until then but I’ve read a lot about how Friends paralleled with the show in many aspects (and partly because I watched an NBC tribute to Cheers, as introduced by the cast of Friends). Anyway, the ( Read more... )

I faced my three-month fear and claimed by class cards for last year’s second semester. Remember, I am resigned to either a humiliating 5.0 or a well-deserved INC. Guess what the magic genie, the angels in heaven, and of course, the professor gave me:


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Dear LW and TWA,

Hi, I’m the mistress writing on behalf of Upcoming Week (although when we met, it’s already called This Week). You can call me Judie. No, call me Dith. A recent brush with my past had me reviving what most friends call me- Dith, that is.

Anyway, I will try to be as concise as possible because that’s what This Week would want. The ( Read more... )

I forgot to rave about the “arrival” of Royce’ Potato Chip Chocolate (weird, but it’s what it says) in my office chair after I went to the ladies’ room yesterday. =)


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Five-day weekend. I've been trying to make the most of it before I realize it's done and I have to dread going back to work in a few hours. Although despite what happened in the office recently, I have this inner excitement to get to the office everyday. It could be symptomatic of a disturbing disease but I am riding on it until the symptoms last.

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I made a choice when the clock struck 12 a while ago.

I decided to skip typing the answers to my take home final exam and just call it quits.

This will not be for long, as I would be given an INC (incomplete) mark, which I will be required to fulfill in a few months. I just bought myself more time to deal with the mediocrity.

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I want to have a lamp with a magic genie who can weed me out of this mess.

Simply put, this is perhaps the worst cramming I will put myself into. I only have seven days to read literally thousands of pages of materials from various sources for book reviews, entries for annotated bibliographies, and sensible answers to the take-home exams. Take note ( Read more... )

"Do I dare disturb the universe?"

It's a significant question in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, a book I recently finished, and is one of the best young adult books I've read so far. The protagonist, Jerry Renault, asked himself the same question as he deliberately "tried to disturb" the universe by refusing to sell chocolates for the school's ( Read more... )