The brother brought home crickets from Tiendesitas and it's raining to- well, to fill the ice cream container under the leak in our living room twice over. Crickets! At home in Calasiao every time the rainy season came about the pools overflowed and frogs laid eggs everywhere water accumulated and the whole back wall outside the kitchen porch was ( Read more... )

I was awake at eight this morning and it felt like a triumph. Never mind that it was because, you know, I didn't sleep at all. Hi insomnia I don't miss you at all ( Read more... )

Half of the time I feel like I'm walking around speaking Entish. Not really speaking Entish, of course- I can't, for one, and I think I'd notice if I woke up one day speaking in Tolkien's tongues- and this is not a metaphor that would come to me organically, only my dreams last night involved, among other things, reading a song in The Two Towers I' ( Read more... )

( Sorry, guys. You only get the chance to use that line as a title once in your lifetime, because without the novelty you're left with plain irritation, and the Pod is making the case for its sentience really convincing. I couldn't resist. )

They barely speak to each other for the next few days, only the minimum of surface courtesies, requests, responses. "You don't have to come," Zaida says to her mother the day before the Real game. "It's no big deal ( Read more... )

Ang sakit ng paa ko. Sobrang sakit ng paa ko. Walang mas sasakit pa sa paa ko. Pero first place ang lantern naming hinabol namin ni Allison paikot ng UPM para ibalik lahat ng mga bagay-bagay na nahuhulog habang umiikot siya at nakapag-simbang gabi kami kahit na sa Jollibee lang rin kami napunta pagkatapos at nakita ko si Guia, di bale nang nandoon ( Read more... )

Intarmed Christmas party at Ping Mang = best thing in the world. I see them every day and either way it'd be stupid to expect things to stay the same when med proper rolled about so I can't really say I miss the kids with any accuracy, but I kind of miss the kids anyway. (No, we will never graduate from being the Intarmedkids, ever.) Hindi ( Read more... )

Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia's inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long.One day, maybe, I will grow up. Then I will be amazing at all the administrativa and efficient at studying and I will drink coffee just to wake up and never mind the taste. The trains will be modes of public ( Read more... )

Renal physio exam on Monday and El freaking Clasico at four in the morning on Sunday (and I know last time I said I was sick to everything of Spanish football, but, well, I can't not) and I should be editing and putting together all the problem set answers the groupmates sent me so that I can get back to studying sooner, but what I am doing instead ( Read more... )

Immensely obvious fact: it is four in the morning. It is four in the morning and Carling Cup isn't showing and I'm tired and I've been trying to sleep since eleven and I haven't slept yet because my brain just won't. Shut. Up. What the hell, self. This is not how you do reasonable mature human being. I thought we were done with this whole inability ( Read more... )