Yesterday, my mother asked me to clean some frozen squid to be cooked for dinner. The instructions came through my little sister, who asked me to remove the "mata" (eyes) and the "plastic" (the cuttlebone). So I did that, gingerly gorging the eyes out of the half-thawed cephalopod with a small knife, and pulling out the sliver of cartilage with ( Read more... )

Despite my best efforts to resist, I napped this afternoon for 2-3 hours. I didn't want to screw my sleeping schedule, see. I already got late for an hour Wednesday because my cellphone alarm didn't go off and I don't want it to happen again. Basically, I suddenly opened my eyes to gray skies, panicked, and woke up my mom ( Read more... )

Will it make me feel better if I say, yes, I am scared shitless and, yes, the appropriate---albeit vulgar---term would be "pussy ( Read more... )

Well, the first day on the floor was okay. It was mostly observation, and I liked my preceptor. The thirteen hours slithered by odiously, but I’m not complaining. Really, if I got there and they surprise me with a, “Okay, kid, here’s your five patients,” I would have had a heart attack. @__@ Anyway, I get patients on Wednesday. I hope I’ll be fine ( Read more... )

Here we go.

See you in 13 hours or so.

and round and round and round ( Read more... )

O__o Well, whatever it is, I feel like my inside's being carved out with that dainty little device they use to remove coconut meat. (Yung buko. Ginawang buko pandan. Yum.) @__@ Why am I a girl? *suffers ( Read more... )

This is actually the first drabble I wrote for 31_days. It took quite a bit of maneuvering to make it fit the theme even slightly ( Read more... )

Whoops. Need to photo-finish this post. Oras na ng utol ko.

Hmmm....

July 8th - NCLEX. @__@ Finally authorized by the state to take the licensure exam! I'll be a licensed alchemist nurse soon. @__ ( Read more... )

I've actually cleaned up the kitchen way before midnight, so I don't have to stay up an extra hour. I've already finished my usual KoL adventuring, leaving my character to recuperate from piss-ass inebriety again. Oh well ( Read more... )