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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.

Current Mood: rushed
Current Location: on Alistair!PC @ my bedroom.
Current Music: Badly Drawn Boy - "River, Sea, Ocean"

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I spent my first day on the job at my dad's office just this Thursday, where I realized that I have a whole lot of recovery work to do for the website they want me to maintain ~~because my brother is an emotional retard~~ and that the Internet connection is a hell lot faster there than it is at my house. I've got a meeting with my dad and my aunt -- head of Sales & Marketing -- this coming Tuesday. I'll probably start working for realz by then/

Yesterday was pretty much unproductive if you were to consider the academic aspect of things, but that couldn't have been avoided given the fact that it was Faculty Day and two out of my three classes were canceled. I would've loved to skip it in favor of lounging around some more with

laurgasm and

_stillframe_, but it was Third World Lit II with Sir DM, and we all know how much I love that man. ~~He's given me an A twice in a row! :D~~

58321 / 73122 words. 80% done!

Stayed up REALLY late (and I therefore got to keep

yukitsu company while she pulled a 16-hour shift at her workplace) in order to finish the first arc of Bloodsport in NaNoWriMo, which I did -- that leaves me around 14,000 more words before I hit my planned quota (see progress bar above), and more than enough time to kick start Interlude I. I do plan on continuing to write all the way until November 30, but I'm going to slow down phenomenally after I reach my goal. Thesis is a-coming, yo.

I somehow managed to wake up by 8:30 and immediately zipped over to the humble abode of my cousin

ryvaeus -- I had the novelty of watching him flail around before we went to the Evil Fully Booked Flag Store at the Fort in order to do some Lit Major-style book hunting.

yukitsu hooked up with us later, and we ate at two very lovely restaurants for lunch and desert. Spent the next few hours back at my cousin's house before he headed off to a concert. Paper Mario rulez.

Congratulate me. I could've gone home with P2500 worth of new books and no savings to speak off. I only came home with two novels this time. >_>

My thesis adviser wants me to send in what I've managed to accomplish for my thesis thus far (read: Not Much At All) by Sunday -- after I do that, I'm going to spend the rest of the day chilling out, possibly reading Gaudium et Spes for Theology class and upping the word count some more for NaNo.

...There are so many movies I ought to be watching. ~_~ The only thing that's stopping me is the fact that I want to read the comic/book versions of the films in question before I even think of going to a movie theater for them.

On other news, Avatar the Last Airbender has joined my list of top fandoms.

Kais. Time to stop slacking off nao.

P.S. Can anybody on my flist rec any good LJ communities or websites for music whorage? I'm trying to find ways of abusing the connection over at the office whenever I'm there, but I don't want to do any BT downloads.

EDIT: Chickadees, I think I've been around the Internet long enough to know what search engines are. My apologies for not being specific about the request above, so let me do it now: I'm looking for specific websites, LJ communities and blogs to download music from. That I'm asking means that I don't want to type in "mp3 downloads" in google and wade through millions of links for an audio-fix.

Hay. Some people. For the lulz, I tell you.

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: bedroom.
Current Music: Saosin - I Can Tell (acoustic)

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You know those dreams that you just slip into and end up so real that you actually think they're happening and you don't know that they're dreams? I had one of them last night. Weirdest shit I've come across. Here are some points on the last part, which was the most vivid.

1.) I was pregnant. Pregnant on the brink of graduation. How and by who? Hurr.
2.) I was in some plaza in a city while it was snowing, crouched at the foot of the status with friends, watching the snow fall, smoking.
3.) I was leaning against a good friend's shoulder, telling her that even if it was going to fuck up my life, I wanted to keep the baby.

...Yep. Fucking bizarre, is all. Woke up and actually had to feel my stomach and wonder.

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Here's the link to the most recent posts I've made to my fic journal... they're both featuring two original short stories that I threw together earlier this sem. Creative Writing class. Go figure.

Intermissions and Blank Bullets, English Tea, Irony & Nostalgia

Descriptions, background and other randomness pertaining to the pieces are on the posts themselves. Note that the second story's f-locked, so you'll have to friend

stitchedophelia to be able to read it.

This was cross-posted to all the usual places, so I apologize if I'm flooding your flist. x_X

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Still haven't decided on what to do for NaNo. THE CLOCK IS TICKING.

...Now I better go work on my entry for the Gaiman contest. I spent the whole day Persona 3-ing, so I suppose my mind's clear enough to do some butchering.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: bedroom.
Current Music: Evangelion REBUILD 1.0 - "EM21 Demo"

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SATURDAY

Yaoi no Hi celebration at Mall of Asia. Took

archangel_dream along for the ride, where I met up with

yukitsu,

sindapa,

khursten,

xhael,

macgirl_13,

stryderranulf,

sortinghatlover,

magnetic_rose and other faces old and new to celebrate boy porn over chocolate cake. Was given the work I need to do from Ranulf's end, and basically chilled/fangirled/bibliophiled the whole day.

Late night conversations and Gudangs made me realize how much I've missed times like that. After a harrowing semester (and it'll only get more harrowing from this point), going back to the people who truly matter in life was refreshing. The book sales and discount card power help too. X3

...This summary would be better, 'cept my brain is shot from weird weather and too much smoking. At least it's windy. o_o

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SUNDAY

Petrik and family (including my adorable one-year-old (and them some) niece were over for the weekend. They're all ecstatic about the publishing gig. Father dear has offered to buy copies of the anthology when it comes out and give it to all our relatives and (nearly) all of my friends. It was generally all right until dinner time, when the topic of conversation somehow moved to homosexuality.

Traditional family + patriarchal house + know-it-all brother = Not Cool. Will Not Discuss.

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TODAY

Was supposed to meet with Mahar to ~~satisfy his craving for wild, passionate boysex~~ give him this disc of eclectic anime pieces that I owe him, but he never came around. Spent most of my day in the smoket, and some of it at Caf Up.

archangel_dream was freaking out over her Philo orals.

miyachan and I were ~~cramming~~ fixing our stuff for Read or Die. We'll be handling Edith Tiempo during the talks at the Manila International Book Fair.

Home now, and a bit dizzy. I've got work I need to do for Comics Class, and I really ought to be working on my assignment(s) for Creative Writing. I should also be doing the shorts I plan to submit to Spec Fic and PSG. Then there's Madame Bovary to read and diagrams to encode.

*stares longingly at her Torchwood DVD*

Current Mood: lazy
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: Gwen Stefani's "What Are You Waiting For?"

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It's been a harrowing first week, to say the least. The last two days I had before school were devoted to exercising VERY early in the morning, and Lord knows I haven't done something like that in a while. I'm still not used to waking up early, which was exactly what I've been forced to adjust to this whole week. Then there was Wednesday and the first wave of June's Ides of Stupid, with Moralizing Sophomores, thesis problems ~~due to strange changes in policy that really shouldn't apply to me in the first place but Hell, don't ask ME what's up with that~~ and classes disappearing left and right. Previous entries can attest to that.

Suffice to say, Friday and Saturday were great ways to close the week. I met up with

sindapa,

yukitsu and

laurgasm at Shangri-La after battling through Manila + Makati traffic jams to get my paycheck at the STAR -- the three of us chilled out for a good few hours, and I think we all generally realized how much we missed just sitting around, doing absolutely nothing substantial. Got home late because the traffic was still bad, and ended up conking out without even poking anybody on y!m.

Woke up after several dreams involving me coming in terribly late for the first class for Development of Fiction, which was quite far from the reality. Sir DM is supposed to teach the class, but since he won't be back until August Miss Ivery de Pano will be taking over.

archangel_dream and I basked in the thrill of having a class full of graduate students, of people who actually took the class because they really wanted to and will apply this same seriousness and desire to learn to all the succeeding sessions.

...Right. Geek moment ends there. @_@

After doing some more Ateneoish things,

archangel_dream waited around for me at Crossroads 77 while I worked out, and then we headed over to Megamall to visit Yue-tan,

khursten,

sortinghatlover and all the lovely Pinkies they had on display for the Toycon. Event didn't seem to be very well-organized, and since neither of us had any money

archangel_dream and I just sat around at the Pinky booth, keeping our eye out for the few really nice cosplayers that made our afternoon.

magnetic_rose arrived a bit later, although she wasn't feeling well. The Real Life Otaku that assaulted the booth later didn't help much either. T_T

The two of us headed off a few hours before the convention closed in order to eat dinner at Soup Kitchen, where I finally satisfied a craving I've carried for their stuff ever since I first ate there in my junior year. We swung by the cousin's place to pick up my brother, then I dropped

archangel_dream off at Ateneo. Fussed over a great many Litsoc matters and then a few illustration things for

geist_net the moment I got home, cooled down by chatting with friends, and then slept sometime past midnight.

Parents are still in Cambodia with my brother Pio, leaving Paolo, Peter and I with the house until Monday evening -- as such, I'm tempted to skip out on Sunday mass altogether. I haven't been able to do nearly as much editing/writing as I want to, and I also need to finish my reading assignment for Philosophy. It's not too hot yet, but that's sure to change within the next few hours.

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: LSSing on the Death Note 2nd OP

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So today was spent burning requests for LO discs, hopping around Powerplant with

yukitsu and

kye_kestrel, joking around with the family members, and burning even MORE LO discs. o_o

Was supposed to watch Spider-man 3 with the girls, but since Lynffles and I were lukewarm and all of us were lazy, we just ended up talking and plotting and generally being silly, which is always refreshing... it's been a long time since I've gotten the chance to unwind.

Am definitely writing Aocalypse Please next.

May will be a busy month, and it's not just because of Lights Out.

...Now, back to Heroes episode 21. Apparently, even Sylar has a conscience. @_@

~~I want more Battlestar Galactica. .___.~~

[EDIT, 20 minutes later]: ....

tristantrakand has just told me news that completely blew my brain in a very, very, VERY good and life-changing way.

*wanders away to brush the dust off Endtimes*

Current Mood: WHY IS IT SO HOT?
Current Location: my room, with the brothers
Current Music: Heroes Episode 21

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~~Part of the reason why this post is here is because I think the LJ layout on my main page won't fix itself until I get a new entry. Quirky much. o_o~~

The Mars Volta is the sort of band that one can trip on regardless of the hour. I'm still trying to figure out what the whole album means... so far, I've come up with some interesting references. Most of the feedback's useless though. *pokes SongMeanings.Net* They should screen the stuff that goes on here, like most other things.

Am supposedly hooking up with

miyachan and maybe Joanne later along Katipunan. The option to eat lunch is open, but I doubt I have the cash for it. Kind of embarassed to keep asking my Mom for money, especially since summer classes haven't even started yet. ._. Will probably end up lolling about in Starbucks with the laptop, since it's one of the only decent places that lets you plug your electronics in.

Twelve more to go for the 60-60-60 thing. I think I'm starting to run out of ideas. @_@ The Muse is not speaking to me either. I don't know what she really wants me to write.

...Somebody tell me what you need in KHII in order to get the perfect ending. I wanna see that rumored Keyblade Wars extra trailer!

Current Mood: deloused.
Current Music: "cicatriz esp" - the mars volta

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...I slept for 9 hours. o_o;; Felt dizzy for a bit, but the moment I got up my head's as clear as a drought-ridden sky. Me thinks I can pull an all-nighter now, or at least work on Chapter 26. I'm only five pages in.

I'll be seeing Drew tomorrow and buying the goods. Buying the boosters with Khursten yesterday didn't particularly help our deck, but it gave us a lot of stuff for trade. You know the Big Man's trying to tell you something when you get rares and excellent plot twists for every other kind of DC Origins deck except your own. ._.

Speaking of yesterday. That was a lot of fun. My belief (drilled into me by Khursten, Rotch and Rael) that all racing series are gay was reinforced. The opponents in Midnight Tunes (the other mod-type platform in G4 other than Initial D) all look like they came out of a yaoi manga.

End Of The Year Blues seem to be kicking in for the inhabitants of this little pocket in the universe. Guess there's little else to do about it but cling to the same life raft and shoot the breeze with each other.

Crap. =_= Mass at 10. =____=

EDIT: ( meme mode )

Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: inner radio going *bzzt* and *buzz*

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the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

Kae @ DW

Crawled through god-knows-what to get here.

Particulars.

writing stuffage. and other things.

Since I failed to talk about Saturday.

in a nutshell.

Day to Day~

do you recall its name?

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