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[izkariote]

It's so hard to drag myself to post on LJ these days... Plurk suits my hours a lot more, given the way I've been running around like a headless chicken, balancing RP stuff and school and the little things I do to keep myself sane. ANYWAY, LIFE UPDATES. ~~~/o/

Last week was quite pleasant, even though nothing out of the ordinary happened: consultation for my En11 classes continued, and my kids in Lit13 were basically running the class in my stead with their group reports. Overall, minimal preparation was required on my end, so that gave me a lot of time to freak out over my grad studies requirements.

Thursday was an awesome day for both me and the rest of ADMU: our college boys' basketball team won the championship for the 71st season of the UAAP, and I finished all 15 pages of my final paper in Development of Fiction while everyone else was either at the game, watching it, or watching other people watch it and plurk on it. XD

My Mishima Report last Saturday was a big success~ Sir DM made it a point to congratulate me and say that I did a lovely job. I feel greatly affirmed. ♥ NOW, REBORN! PAPER. HERE I COME.

Saturday was also lovely because I went to Trinoma to hook up with verjill, who was celebrating her birthday. sortinghatlover and magnetic_rose where also there, along with some other lovely people who I really, really enjoyed talking to. Jill, bb, can you do me a favor and direct me towards their Plurk accounts/LJs? And let them know that I want to bugger them online! \o/

Most of yesterday was eaten up by my mother's oath-taking over at the Manila Hotel... she's just received her license to practice as a certified guidance counselor, so that's some kind of awesome. Pros of the oath-taking ceremony include air-conditioned room and me getting to dress up pretty. Cons include bad food, stiff strangers at the table I was in, LONG-ASS SPEECHES and this senile old lady who kept insisting that everybody sing along with her to this terribly Filipinized version of "If We Hold On Together" not just once, but three fucking times.

The after-grad party we had with Mom was awesome though. We ate at Grappas. THEIR BEER, I WANT MORE OF IT.


SO THAT'S MY RECAP. The week's just begun, but things are looking up. There's still that tiny me running around in the back of my head, screaming at me to BE FUCKING PRODUCTIVE!, but for serious, I'm already in Sem Break Mode.

I'm supposed to fangirl like the shit over all the stuff I've been watching lately over here, but I think I drained all of it out on Plurk. INSTEAD, here's the list of shit I need to do once school is out:
-Finish checking student papers.
-Play Playstation 2. And PSP games.
-SORT ALL OF THOSE IMAGES, DAMN IT.
-Review icon collection. Delete what you can.
-GO THROUGH NEW ICON LINKS.
-Fix your Firefox bookmarks.
-WRITE AND PLOT AND YAY!
-Brainstorm for future academic paper topics.
-Do your critique of the Spec Fic Movement, and all shenanigans related to that issue.
-Marathon all the backlogged stuff on your hard drive.
-Catch up on RPlurk archives. T-there are so many of them again. D:


Will probably work on my paper tomorrow, if laziness doesn't get the better of me. I am also seriously looking forward to Wednesday, and to this weekend!

Comments

[tristantrakand.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the only time the food at the Manila Hotel has been good was when I was in high school. Which was like a decade ago. O_____O

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

It was kind of funny, actually. My brother kept saying "Wow. This must be the leftovers they get from Philippine Airlines." *snerk*

[anothermiyaw.livejournal.com]

-Do your critique of the Spec Fic Movement, and all shenanigans related to that issue.

!!!

Go go go! *cheer*

I hope to see the day our shenanigans break the collective brains of "Philippine spec fic" people.

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

I-I don't feel very confident about what I've got to say, though. You guys always seem to cover it fine. @_@

[anothermiyaw.livejournal.com]

DO EEEEET

I have the feeling though that eventually we'll have to put our money where our mouths are (!) and come out with a publication of sorts. Just so we can prove that YOU DON'T HAVE TO WHINE TO WRITE, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

In that vein: http://paralumanfic.livejournal.com XDDD;; (submissions start next month)

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Aren't we already kind of doing that? At least on the side of editorial opinion and honest-to-goodness literary criticism. o_o

...You're right though. I DEFINITELY DON'T MIND WRITING ORIGINAL FIC, EXCEPT I KIND OF HAVE A LOT OF PROJECTS.

[anothermiyaw.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah I meant original fiction XD;;

Oo nga eh, I see your posts about what you're doing and I can't help thinking you're working on so many things :D

[verjill.livejournal.com]

Here are their Plurks, bb: John and Sese :D

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

Can you give them the head's up that I'm adding them? Lulz. They'll prolly think I'm a creepy stalker.

[yukitsu.livejournal.com]

SO MANY THINGS TO DO ONCE SCHOOL IS OUT! \o/

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

[yukitsu.livejournal.com]

8D Oh, man, IMAGINE THE AMOUNT OF SHENANIGANS POSSIBLE.

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

I'M PROBABLY GOING TO BE DROWNING IN SHENANIGANS FOR THE SECOND WEEK OR SO, SINCE MY FIRST WEEK WILL PROBABLY BE DEVOTED TO PAPER CHECKING AND TRYING TO FIND MY BRAIN BACK.

[kye-kestrel.livejournal.com]

--everybody sing along with her to this terribly Filipinized version of "If We Hold On Together" not just once, but three fucking times.

o.o Wat.

[izkariote.livejournal.com]

I'm serious. They translated the song into Tagalog - the whole meaning was skewed. And the old woman kept singing it. And singing it. And singing it. While insisting that all the newly sworn-in guidance counselors stand up and sing along with her.