Holy crap on a stick, this is what happens when I take the equivalent of 18 units of work between graduate studies and teaching.

I'm learning so much, but I am also definitely dying. And failing to check LJ or update. Again. +_+

(I actually hit the limit of entries I can scroll back to on my flist. Sob, what the hell did I miss?!)

Quick points, though: I did participate in NaNoWriMo this year, and completed it ahead of schedule. I normally post with a lot more fanfare, but I just couldn't get myself to do regular updates this time, even if I kept promising myself that I would...

Sort of resolved to do a regular word count every month from now, but I haven't been able to fulfill that promise just yet out of sheer Busy and Tired. I plan on gunning as soon as I've got a moment to myself. Whenever that will happen, anyway.

My brother who's based in Toronto also turned up like, three weeks ago with his family: none of us were expecting him to visit so soon, including him. His wife's aunt had died out of the blue, so they needed to come home to pay their respects. He was lucky enough to get an extension, though, and stay for a week rather than the in-and-out weekend trip that he was originally planning. I was busy as high hell that week spending as much time as I could with him during that period, of course. ♥

His family's still here, but they'll be flying back to Canada real soon. It was nice, spending time with them.

I'll be in Singapore for a conference by the end of the week, and then it'll be off to Baguio the weekend after that with the family. THEN there's the holiday season. Christmas break is ridiculously short this time around, though, and it won't be long before I'm drowning under requirements again. Am also crossing my fingers on my application to another conference in Singapore, scheduled for February - it's fully funded, which saves me the trouble of scraping funds together. I am so broke these days, it's not funny.

Spent my money well this year, though. Had so much fun, and got so much stuff. I can't say that I regret it.

There's probably more to say, but I think this will do for now.

My weekend was pretty wild, because I kicked it off by hanging with my ADMU family over at Ayala Techno Park (AN EXTREMELY SHINY PLACE IS EXTREMELY SHINY) and THEN it was off to meet with the girls the next day.

Started off with me swinging by Medical City to see yukitsu, khursten and kye_kestrel - we ate lunch before heading up to help Rachel's family out with her dad's hospital room. Teng Papan is perfectly fine from the looks of it! *w*

After Rachel went off with her family, we took a road trip around to pick Khursten's mom up and drop Lyn off before we hit Khursten's hood. We rolled around until late evening before zooming over to 77ws's party thing WHICH DID NOT HAVE PRITCHON, FEEL MY DISAPPOINTMENT WAVES OVER THE INTERNET--!

People spotted:
- psychoshoujo, gzep (who is srsly amazing when he is tipsy/drunk) and seraph_dreams!
- Sammi and Justin, who holds the distinction of being her boyfriend for more than a year. Good job, Justin. T^Tb
- menismastah and the Antarctics folks! Adz, your hair! o_o

Night passed into morning in a haze of way too much laughing and a whole lot of booze. Khursten and I went home by 2, but we didn't sleep all that much due to Srs Talk, which I'll likely poke the other girls about at the soonest opportunity.

Running on minimal sleep at the moment and back at home, but I'm still hoping that the family will decide to eat out. It's been a while since we've done that~

EDIT, A FEW HOURS LATER: Yeah, we went out. It was amazing. |D

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HERE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER FANFICS:

+ METAL GEAR SOLID. Everything you ever wished for (requested by daniela_lynx)
+ HIKARU NO GO. A thousand sunsets in a box (requested by [Bad username or site: mushroom_18) @ livejournal.com]+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN: PUBLISHING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS AU. It's called love at first, and it doesn't hurt (requested by theprerogative)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! The effect of impact on stationary objects (requested by theprerogative)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! I don't know one joke (requested by dreamlessness)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! Mischief of one kind or another (requested by _sabriel)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! We are all of us haunted and haunting (extremely belated birthday fic for innocentlyjaded)
+ THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU. The smell of hospitals in winter (requested by theprerogative)
+ FULL METAL ALCHEMIST. Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair (requested by theprerogative)


AND SOME FANMIX THINGS:
+ PERSONA 3. Deuce: A Minato & Ryoji FST
+ VALKYRIE PROFILE. Woman King: A Tribute to Lenneth
+ FINAL FANTASY 7: CRISIS CORE. Crisis Core FST


YES THE KAREN!FIC GETS PIMPED TWICE. I-it's another thing I'm ridiculously proud of, because srsly: when I was writing the thing, I felt like murdering small animals over how difficult it was. NEVER AGAIN, OKAY. ;A;

Will continue posting the backlogged fanmixes very soon, along with my birthday gift(s) for g3ssh0ku just so that she'll stop linefacing at me.

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This coming week will be the last week of regular classes - got some papers to check, consultations to do, a final exam to deliver and a paper to fish. GO SELF, U CAN DUUU IT~

Aaaand once vacation hits, I'll be in holy shit Singapore.

Holy shit. Time flies! D:

Head's up: long-ass entry ahead.

...And I haven't even changed my icons around in the longest time. /sob

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( School, Teacher Stuff, POC and related matters. )

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Now, before I go on to talk about everything else, I think I owe this much to Corazon Aquino, the woman whom my countrymen just laid to rest the other night.

( Two Cents for Tita Cory. )

Posted this over at my official blog, verbatim.

For the people interested in my Nine Inch Nails faggotry, I'll be posting an entry on that over there too. Link will follow once it's up.

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It doesn't feel right posting ANGY! and BITCH! on the same entry as my word on Mrs. Aquino, so go and check the entry that'll come after this one for that.

I DO want the internet to know, though, that I think a case study ought to be done on Twilight and why the hell its fans are batshit insane. Just read the persona account of an RPer buddy of a friend, who was basically forced to vanish from the internet due to a rabid Twitard beating her over the head with a golf club.

No. I'm not kidding. And this probably isn't the first report of Twilight-related violence that has come out. Oddly enough, the cases seem to occur only in America.

It sounds silly, but the scholar in me is honestly pinged. Don't be surprised if I suddenly announce that I'm reading Meyer's work - it only means that I'm out to make a cultural studies analysis on the book in relation to this particular generation of America's youth, and what factors may contribute to the questionable behavior of a good number of these readers.

...Clearly, Pammeth needs to get a life. /cough

This entry is LONG OVERDUE, but I've spent the last few days drowning in paperwork -- this was something that I did on purpose, as I wanted to make sure that I did all my teacherly stuff before the actual break. That way, I'd be free to party slack off be productive in other, less academic areas of my life throughout the Christmas season. I CAN HAPPILY COLLAPSE IN A CORNER SOMEWHERE NOW THAT EVERYTHING IS DONE! \o/

Srsly, though, this Responsible Adult thing? Sometimes I want to kick myself in the head for it. I might work myself straight to the coffin at this rate. Somebody needs to tell me when to slow down. *fail*

kye_kestrel had her birthday celebration last Saturday over at Powerplant; anothermiyaw hitched a ride with me from Katipunan, after my Texts and Textuality Class. Traffic was bad, so we kinda ended up shooting the breeze for the good hour that we spent swimming through a sea of cars. Met up with the boss and yukitsu once we got there: everyone else - khrusten, 77ws, ficcentricity and lonelybusiness who is fail because she thought we were meeting up in Glorietta - arrived later. Cue dinner shenanigans. Cue crazy gifts. KRISTEL, UNDERSTAND THE CHAOS YOU BROUGHT DOWN UPON ALL OF US WITH THOSE GIFTS. B|

Spent the next few days after that Drowning in Papers whenever I was home and doing school shenanigans whenever I was in Ateneo. Finally managed to finish up everything sometime last night, and today was light and easy. Had my first Christmas party with the English Department. That was pretty much an awesome way to kick off my break. ♥


Goals That Will Probably Not Be Met For Christmas Break 2008:
* Work on my pitch to Image Comics. I'm planning on pitching Endtimes. *crosses fingers*
* BOND WITH MY PS2. ASDK;LHG;LAHSDGHADSG TOO MANY PEOPLE POSTING ABOUT PERSONA 4.
* BOND WITH MY PSP. I'VE ONLY BEEN USING IT FOR MUSIC. orz
* Catch up with my backlogged anime, manga, movies and TV series. The list keeps growing, whut.
* Catch up with all the books I've bought but haven't even really cracked open.
* Sort all those images. I HAD A GOOD START.
* Fix my game plan for the rest of the semester with my kids.
* Write more Return on Investment after I've finished all my Christmas gift fics.

Now that I've mentioned it, I should be posting some of the gift fics that I managed to finish before work came rolling in. In the meantime, I'm pimping out the fics that I wrote for kye_kestrel - I did my usual ## number of drabbles = to celebrant's age thing for her~

+ FULL METAL ALCHEMIST, TENGEN TOPPA GURREN-LAGANN, ODIN SPHERE, KINGDOM HEARTS, SOUL EATER (click here!)
+ PERSONA 3: Ryoji/Minato, Shinji/Aki, Junpei/Aki & XXXHOLiC: Doumeki & Watanuki (click here!)
+ D.GRAYMAN: OT3, Cross, Rabi/Kanda & DARKER THAN BLACK: Gen Fics (click here!)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN!: 1827, 5927, Spa27/Spa51 & OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE: IzuMizu, AbeMiha (click here!)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN!: Shouichi Crack, 6927, 8059, 801859 (click here!)

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My thirteenth month pay thingie came in last week, and Mom just put it on time deposit - this means a huge rate of return in terms of interest every month. This suddenly makes some plans that I had for 2009 very feasible, so I've decided to go for a major Poverty Plan to make sure that I achieve them at the projected dates.

Here's hoping that I make it.

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