and it kills me to watch you descend... v4.0 > >

Woke up feeling wasted today; my sleeping habits haven't been healthy at all. A lot of tiny things peeved me, and the deadlines are just piling up... for your sake, here's a list of all the stuff I gotta do.

Formations Department plan of action
Oedipus Rex, Episode 2: acting the dialogue between Jocasta and Oedipus Rex (along with Chorus 2) and making a paper to answer the 20-30 questions given by the wonderful Max Pulan
Collect P200 for the Foreigner's Filipino 12 readings from over fifteen stingy people before Saturday

And they say freshmen have all the time in the world. Makes me worried about my later years in Ateneo. o_O

Anyway.

Resident gay boy Julian was being his Drama Queen self tosay... Sir Vince asked him what was wrong with him, and he replies, "Sir, I'm feigning happiness."

I wonder if he ever realized that NOBODY GIVES TWO FUCKS about that.

Literature 14 was a downer because of the deadlines mentioned above. Things perked up for a bit during the break, but took a nosedive for the worst with Physics because of the mind-numbing diagnostic test on which I scored 9 points out of 47.

Tired. And I still haven't finished Chapter 29.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Monday, November 17, 2003, 12:57 p.m..

Had to quite literally drag myself out of bed this morning... slept in an air-conditioned room the other night, so it was almost evil to have to unravel the coccoon I had buried myself in. Either way, I ended up playing pRO and doing the usual Magnificat Party for all the little first-classers (and some lazy second-classers) in Glast Heim. It got tiresome after a while.

Attended Mass with the family in the afternoon, then I went off with my parents to this outdoor garden sale... Mom splurged on flowers and plants for the garden at home and the ancestral house in Batangas. The first hour was fun, but as the second hour came around it started getting really boring... managed to entertain myself with the sight of this cute dog and his Australian master. It never ceases to amaze me how pets can look exactly like the ones who own them... I wanted to pet the little guy, but I didn't get the chance. ^_^

Bought all the stuff I need for the upcoming school week at the nearest mall before heading home, and now I'm gearing up to watch the last two episodes of Prince of Tennis that I've got on my hands. By then, let's hope that I'll have enough drive to write a bit more for Chapter 29 while I wait for my hair to dry... Mom insists that I don't sleep with it wet.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Sunday, November 16, 2003, 08:55 p.m..

Walked into Foreigner's Filipino class this morning dreading the possibility of having the same teacher that I did last sem only to be pleasantly surprised... it's some new guy (who happens to be gay also), and he doesn't seem like a bad fellow. Dismissed us a little early (9:30 instead of the designated 12:00), so I ended up bumming around with Joanne at the shed before the driver came around to take me home. We talked about a whole lot of things. ^_^

Hmm... two hours to go before it's off to my tita's house to get my hair done. After that, my family's going off to visit my grandfather since it's his 98th birthday. Imagine that: Lolo Punzalan, older than the Pope. Intriguing.

Two more episodes to go for Prince of Tennis before I have to go and beg Khursten to lend me another 25 episodes. T_T I can already feel my torment.

*peeks outside at the roaring wind*

I love the weather today.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Saturday, November 15, 2003, 10:34 a.m..

Ho-hum... the internet is rather laggy today. Is it just me, or are none of the graphics on my blog here popping up? T_T I hope it's just browser trouble... I don't want to go looking for yet ANOTHER image hoster online.

Today was slow-paced, as expected; even though my Physics class was a free cut, I still had to run off to a meeting with Sir Vince and Leo (my "boss" in LitSoc's Formations Department) regarding our department's plans within the org and within our own circle. We got a lot done, I guess.

Spent the last two hours finishing two thirds of the work I've got due on Monday; I'm about to hop off and start up a Prince of Tennis marathon with my family's best VCD player and every can of Cherry Coke that I've managed to accumulate since the beginning of the week.

Before I go, let me declare that I am a shameless person. I'm STILL suffering through Fanfiction.net in the hopes of some decent POT stuff AND I'm reeling from the joy of the evil Fuji x Tezuka doujinshi Khursten sent me.

...

Evil stuff. Eeeeeevvvvviiiiillll stuff. o_O

Darnit. Got my first Foreigner's Filipino class tomorrow morning. 3 hours of nonsensical blabber and putting up with some brainless nimwatts in my class. Bah.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Friday, November 14, 2003, 02:08 p.m..

Math 11 class turned out to be more pleasant than I thought it would... our professor's a cool guy. Trouble is, for every two friends in my block there are three dimwits that I happen to know of also, one being this girl from Foreigner's Filipino who gives a whole new meaning to Helium-Brained Bimbo. I think just about everyone in my class agrees with me on that one.

Spent the four-hour break trying to keep as occupied as I could... managed to stave off the first two hours in the company of good friends, but after that I was on my own with absolutely nothing to do. class was quick, and I ended up wasting away even MORE time waiting for the driver who was going to pick me up. There was a mix-up thanks to the incompetence of my OTHER driver, and in the end I wasted the rest of the load I had trying to coordinate. That's P300 down the drain to buy more credits... -_-

You know, if my parents would just let me learn how to drive or at least let me commute, there wouldn't be problems like this. Still, I guess they've got their reasons.

Tomorrow's probably going to be better. My schedule on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is good, and the company is even better.

Did I ever mention how evil Prince of Tennis is? With all the cute bishonen oozing yaoi potential in that series, I've got the wrong story ideas in my head. o_O

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Thursday, November 13, 2003, 04:00 p.m..

Stayed up til late last night to watch the first 10 episodes of Prince of Tennis... this would've been fine if it wasn't for the fact that I kept waking up in the middle of the night because of some freakish dreams. o_O

*yawn* My first class of the day is at 9:30, so I'm still at home -- I'm gonna take my breakfast, fix up a few things and cool off before I head for Ateneo. I'm not really looking forward to going; I've got a 4-hour break to contend with. I'm probably gonna be bored out of my mind. -_- Good thing a couple of my friends are suffering from the same fate; I hope to hang out with them a little to pass the time away.

A strange sort of exhaustion settled over me the other night after dinner; ended up just collapsing on my parent's bed and refusing to move for a bit before the realization that I had PoT episodes to watch. My mum seemed to understand; she said something along the lines that "Even happiness can be stressful". I wonder if that's it, or whether I'm just hung over what's been going on lately.

...Hungry. Need breakfast. Will write here later.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Thursday, November 13, 2003, 07:26 a.m..

Yes, I am enjoying the look of a fresh new layout. ^_^

The first day of classes was crazy, as expected... Sir Vince greeted us the way he usually does (with much pleasure [irony here]), and Sir Max let us off early, thus earning the first few brownie points he will get as our Literature teacher before the real work starts settling in.

Head count proved interesting. Two of my classmates failed Lit, and we also have a new addition there too. On another note, Trina -- a good friend of mine -- cut both English and Lit. I wonder why.

Moving on...

Hung out with blockmates for a bit before going table hoping in the cafeteria, and discovered that I have a surprising number of friends in my Physics class...

On the down side, it turns out that we got Ma'am Morales as our lecture teacher for Physics instead of Macabebe; the former will be our lab teacher instead. A few "veterans" from last sem said that Morales is a little difficult, but I don't think I'm going to have THAT hard of a time... it'll be easy to form a study group, seeing that I've got a motherload of buddies sitting in with me. As Morales said to us earlier, "You will be with your classmates on this journey, and you will get lost together!"

Comforting. I know.

Went off with the girls to The Old Spaghetti House along Katipunan for lunch... things were crazy, as usual. Met up with Khursten's good friend Tessa, who was supposed to sit in with us during Physics Lab class; our professor, however, did not approve. Ended up hanging out with them in the salon after class though.

Tomorrow is the start of hell: Physical Fitness and Math 11 classes. I'm going to have to prepare myself for that on all ends. -_-

Dropped by the convinience store on the way home and bought myself a jar of Cheese Curls and four cans of Cherry Coke, one of which is being consumed at lightning speed as I type. I believe that with all this, I have sufficiently armed myself up to write Chapter 29.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 04:19 p.m..

Looks like my obsession with pRO is finally starting to die down... I went off the server really early and spent the rest of the day typing out more parts in Chapter 28 and uploaded this new layout. What do you guys think? Browser says that there are more than a few bugs, but I'll fix it up some other time...

Alas, classes start up once again for me tomorrow. I actually don't mind it too much -- I've resolved to try even harder to get good grades in the second sem, and I am beginning to miss the company of my blockmates. On another note, it might be best for me to stay out of the house as much as possible; I'll get annoyed at certain people in my household less if I don't have to see them as much.

Radio silence abound between me and some friends whom I once felt very close to. It's a little sad, but perhaps this is the way to go until I can sort out exactly what is going on and why.

The countdown begins.

.†††. swept away once again || kae >> Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 04:27 p.m..