the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

Classes went by in a blur for me yesterday because I used the periods to finish my Lit Conference Powerpoint Presentation of Doom. Thesis tends to make delinquents out of students. @_@ The good news is that I finished it and it looks awesome.

Thesis class was reserved for last minute preparations and a pep talk from Sir DM's end... it was the usual "If they torch you during the conference it's not because they don't like you!" spiel. x_X Missed out on the Formations meeting (FORGIVE ME hamster_friend + ryvaeus!!!!111oneoneone) because the Punzalans had a Family Dinner in lieu of Liza and Liana leaving on Monday. Petrik and Yas + Anika were around, although they had to leave early because Petrik had a flight to The Land of Kimchi later in the evening. Pio and Mai Mai slept over... I got to show off my Lit Conference Powerpoint Presentation of Doom to Mai Mai and Pio leeched some titles from my hentai stash, but Mai Mai is not supposed to know that. o_o

Oh, interesting thing happened yesterday... this sucker added me on Twitter. I didn't add back, and sent the following message:

@gloriaresign: What makes you think I'm interested in what you're going for? Either de-follow me or I'm blocking you.

Let's get a few things straight: I'd like to think I'm not apolitical. I care about the country. In spite of the shit, I care a lot. But srsly. Dissidents stalking people on Twitter just because they're from the same country? Who the hell gave them THAT bright idea?

Furthermore, as my twit said: why would they think that I care about what they're pushing? Do they even realize what they're talking about? Or are they just a bunch of jobless fucks who mooch off the taxes that my parents pay and waste my time with their stupid rallies in Makati? Maybe they ought to think about not evading taxes and doing something with their lives before they think they have the right to tell anyone to step down. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS EARNED, BITCHES.

This insults my intelligence in more ways than I can count.

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Anyway, I'm staying home this weekend to ideally study for my Theology final exam and most definitely work on my lit conference stuff. yukitsu might be swinging by later after visiting the 5-star Hotel for Dead People. Chinese burial ceremonies and all. In lieu of her absence, I have put my brand new Power Mix (aka, dancey fsts for Persona 3, SMT: Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army and Sentou Yousei Yukikaze and some techno/industrial/hard rock ones that I made way back for Bus Gamer and Devil May Cry) on my playlist in order to help me get in the groove.

So, following Weird-As-Hell Wednesday:

Thursday: Work, work, work -- still getting used to CMS. Much luff to khursten for putting up with my whining and helping me fix stuff. At least MOST of the site is ready for public viewing though. If there is one thing I've learned, it's that I need Adobe Photoshop.

Friday: I was supposed to hold the regularly scheduled Friday Meeting for Formations, but I wanted to take advantage of the few times that my last class for the day gives a free cut... I've a feeling I'll be needing the rest, given my hell week to come.

Saturday: Fitted my dress for the final time at Makati (Anika looked like a blue fairy princess! *_*), joined my parents for their lunch reunion thing with my dad's genius block from grade school-high school-college (yes, I'm surprised at the fact that my dad has friends too) and then spent the rest of the afternoon with yukitsu and kye_kestrel, with a guest appearance from sindapa. We watched Golden Compass for Nicole Kidman and the polar bears. Can't say anything beyond the fact that the movie was pretty.

After kye_kestrel headed home, Yukeh and I joined up with psychoshoujo, team7, lonelybusiness, saisun and Angel for dinner and bitchery over stupid people. Traffic was horrid, so most of us stayed behind for cake, fun and LOL-Cats!Speak. And I got to sleep earlier than 1 AM for once.

So now it's Sunday, and I have my brothers watching Smallville on the laptop while I mull over exactly how I'm supposed to do that bonus paper for Theology. I've got a talk & thesis consultation to attend to tomorrow, work on Tuesday, Theology tests + Litsoc party on Wednesday, and work again on Thursday. ...At least I don't have Theo on Friday. Here's hoping that the rest of my classes give out free cuts too. :3

...I'm hee-hoing.

DAMN IT, sindapa, THIS IS YOUR FAULT.

Er. So right now I'm in the office, downloading pr0n Wordpress themes. I managed to set up the portal for the company website (pathetic-looking, I know), so now I'm just gathering all the files I need and mulling over how I'm going to build everything else. I'm seriously considering using the Wordpress CMS as my backend for... well, just about everything. It seems a whole lot more appealing than HTMLing my ass off. It's been too long since I've touched codes, and the easier the interface, the happier I'll be.

Yesterday was Cut Class All Day and Do Org Stuff Day. Spread AWKWARD TURTLES! love to all the Litsoc people manning the book sale, and hung out with yukitsu. Wasn't able to put in any Odin Sphere tiem because I had to gun around 18 readings for Theology class. Turns out I'll have a long test soon.

Peter was tipsy the other night and insisted on sitting in the back with me -- I won't explain how, but let's just say that my ear got caught by the snapping handles of my plastic case and verily ripped my right earring off. So I'm earring-less again, and not very happy about it. ALL THAT EFFORT GOING NOWHERE.

Lesson learned: Bap Baby Brother next time he drinks on a school night.

Hur hur. Formations meet tomorrow, along with a quiz in Theo. Saturday will quite possibly be eaten up by Read or Die duties, which leaves Sunday for bumming. I'm sort of in limbo because my thesis is finished (for the moment), and I'm hoping to get some writing done. As I've told yukitsu and a few others, I can no longer churn out page after page of shit then go "OMG LOOKIT WORLD I WROTEZ SOMETHINGZ!" in good faith. It's not so much the feedback I dread, but the very idea of me putting out something that just doesn't match up. Then there's the fact that I just don't seem to have the time to really sit down and write because of school and other RL things.

Then there's the sheer number of projects I've accumulated, and am actually considering doing. After spending nearly every free moment I had writing in my first and second years, I devoted my third through fifth years of college to RL duties/reading. And you know how writers just absorb ideas and inspiration wherever they may find it. It's both thrilling and frustrating to have all this stuff stocked up and have no way of really channeling it out because there's simply no means to do so yet.

...Oh, the agony of writing. At least I've gotten much better. I think. x_X

That reminds me. I really ought to fix up the next chapters of my India submission. I haven't been able to focus on it at all for more than a few months now. Shoutout to redplasticglass and subdivided: I am so sorry I haven't been in touch and all. >_

I just spent about an hour flat on my back in bed, reading my handouts. Yesterday's workout and gallivanting around with archangel_dream, ravyn_ashling, dadomz and yukitsu (with guest appearances by xhael and miyachan with the invisible presence of sindapa) left me achy all of today. @_@

Crowd at Jasper's Book Sale of Doom (LAST DAY, YAY FOR MY POCKET! ONOZ!) was crazy as always: hamster_friend was there, along with the old Litsoc crew. The only annoyance was one particularly opinionated young lit major who was manning the booth with us. I'm counting on Pulan to set her straight in the future.

Ah yeah. kye_kestrel, if you still want a Moleskine, I may be able to arrange for it outside of the book sale. Just let me know. :3

Shakespeare report went swimmingly, although the sudden turn in weather made me regret the fact that I was discussing Midsummer Night's Dream and not The Tempest. Litsoc film showing went pretty well too, although I didn't stick around to watch: it was Spirited Away with horrid Chinese subtitles.

Reminder to self: bring your swanky digital copy. Y'know, the one with good translations. >_>

I've read up for tomorrow's class (literary motif + a story on love + one of Nick Joaquin's drunken spree works), and now I'm just about ready to marathon/read backlogged manga/fix files. yukitsu will be coming over after class, and the two of us shall proceed to chill out and spend absolutely no money. This week has been pretty crazy, so that sort of slow down is right up my alley.

*stares at stitchedophelia*

Half of me regrets the fact that I really haven't been able to write creatively as of late. I've been editing older projects and I made a few scribbles in The Holy Moleskine, but beyond that there just hasn't been any time for it. On the upside, however, I've been gobbling books up like crazy since the school year began. It started with Lovecraft -- now I'm plowing through speculative history. Jasper's Book Sale of Doom didn't help at all: I now have even MORE books on the growing hit list. =_=

On another note, my Saint Seiya download still isn't done. ;_;