Today I went to SLIS a bit to ~help~ Karen with her thesis topic, as she was bitten by the Thesis Paranoia yesterday. Which is weird because her topic's already approved for presentation; it's not as if she can change anything at this point.

THEN I noticed that there aren't any classes in the whole School (SLIS is just a freakin' corridor. Just look straight up and you'd see ~everything~). Noey helpfully explained that the whole SLIS faculty is in some conference. And the undergrads don't have LIS classes for the whole week.

So jealous man! I mean a week off?! WHY did this happen after I graduated? ;__;

Hmmm, and my tutorial sessions with The Kid are really long this week. Oh yeah Claret, dump loads of exams to your Grade Schoolers, ohohoho♥

Oh, and one of my friends is pregnant. One of those surprise!panganays, you know? Fortunately she's told a part of our group already. It's been haaard keeping mum about it whenever people ask why she's not hanging out with us anymore (her family forbids her to go out) :( Anyway I think we're going to visit her, if she lets us go to their house.

Oh it's weird that something that bugged me for days is just a mere footnote here in LJ. Oh well, at least another friend and I have already sworn to be totally kickass godmothers, oh yeah♥

Graduate na 'ko *u*

Sa college I mean.

Sa totoo lang matagal na ako'ng "graduate", pero di pa ako sure dati dahil medyo paranoid ako; wala kasi yung LIS 200 (Thesis) grade ko sa CRS. Tapos nung tinanong sa Graduate Assistant ng College Sec namin, sabi niya incomplete daw ako...pero napasa ko na yung thesis ko na dahilan kung ba't ako "incomplete." At alam nila na napasa ko na yun.

Kung naguluhan kayo, well, ako din!

Well sabi din ng adviser ko + Dean namin na keri lang yun pero hindi, hindi mapapanatag ang aking umaapaw na paranoia!

Pero ayun, may grade na ako sa CRS. At wala ako'ng "inc" mark. Oh yeah!

So, graduation. Parang yung feeling kapag 18th birthday mo, ganun yung feeling ng maging isang Octoberian. Yanno, feel mo dapat may fireworks at impromptu musical number ang mga tao sa dinadaanan mong kalye at, IDK, pinapaulanan ka ng buong staff ng College mo ng confetti habang tumatakbo ka patungo sa sunset. Or I dunno, parang magkaka-epiphany ka at pagtungtong ng 18th birthday/Graduation eh magkaka insta-Maturity & Responsibility ka. Pero sa totoo lang, ayun, normal na araw lang siya. At wala naman talagang nagbago sa buhay mo, maliban sa isang super liit na detalye.

Lalo na sa'kin, dahil petiks mode pa lang ako. Parang natapos lang ang isang sem, at summer vacation lang. Ayun, ganun ang pakiramdam.

So ayun, Life Hiatus muna ako. Next year ako ulit gagalaw. Pero sa ngayon, TV, manga, libro, pagtatahi, part-time job, at mga kaibigan lang muna ang inaatupag ko. Bongga!

♥ Party at Rex's tonight, argh. I wanna go, but a few days ago dad bitched about me going out too much (or going to SM too much? He kept changing his mind about what he's mad about). So I chickened out and decided not to go.

♥ Our cable TV got disconnected. My dad's going to subscribe again (eh Sky Cable's not giving us the bills so my parents didn't pay), hooray! Hopefully he doesn't realize that he can live without cable, because I can't.

♥ Watched 500 Days of Summer at Ara's last Thursday. She's heard great reviews about it and I've heard bad ones. It was okay; I liked the scene parallelisms and nonlinear narrative.

♥ Went out with Raine and Yvette too. It was my first time at SM North's Sky Garden. There was this really awesome cake place there. The place is small so you'd be self-conscious if you stay there too long, but mmm, cake *u* I loved the lemon cake thing (both the place and its cakes have really long names) *u* Must drag other friends to that place some time.

♥ AME no Jidai in 7 days! *u* It's my first time going as a customer, ohohoho. Well provided my dad lets me go of course. Anyway...I've no idea what people do during the fair.

♥ Ara said that Dan Brown's latest book is a fun read. I asked if another guy died at the start of the book and if Robert Langdon's paired with yet another hot woman. She said yes on both counts. Oh.

I'll still read it though. Dan Brown's very formulaic and his writing style bothers me a bit, but uguuh, guilty pleasure!

This Friday the 13th is fantastic, haha♥

Let's totally ruin the timeline: YEAAAH ALL MY ORGMATES PASSED THE LIBRARIANSHIP LICENSURE EXAM♥

Yes, capslock is in order, dammit! Ma'am Vyva told us that the results would probably come tomorrow or tonight, but one of 'em got a text message that the results were just posted. We all rushed inside.

Everyone tried to squeeze their way over to 1 computer, haha. There were about 3 more, but they forgot or something. Everyone kept shouting people's names and just generally shouting. Especially when we realized that all the LISSA board-takers passed. Shielski even cried, aww♥

It was like New Year's Eve, sans smoke. People were jumping and shouting and hugging at the same time.

*cough*

ANYWAY, today was UP LISSA's party thingamajig. IDK, it was a mixture of stuff. I think it was a Sem-starter/Induction/Yay-LLE's-over-you-guys! celebration. But it was a party. With lots of great food. Fortunately dad let me go--it was a night party and I just asked permission this afternoon. I fell in love with the barbecue btw. and Hazel's cake.

Oh! And I also saw Randolf after 8 months♥ the boy got a scholarship to Korea and started infecting the whole org with Abracadabra.

The first thing I did was check CRS (no thesis grade yet orz), but Madz kept badgering me about her thesis (it's the first week of school and she doesn't even have LIS 200 yet). Then our Dean came and she badgered Ma'am Vyva too, haha.

The LISSA men cooked all of the grilled food, while Yet and Stoi and Hazel washed the dishes. We ate, married off Laurence and Gigi, inducted the inductees, camwhored, then found out about the Exam results.

So yay, happy Friday the 13th♥

Went to Trinoma today with Ara, since I've been craving all week for Starbucks and Krispy Kreme. Frickin' expensive, argh. We also looked for a gift for her inaanak's christening.Wow, baby clothes are expensive @_@.

It's weird, you know when your group of friends become ~adults~ and get babies and stuff. Do you ask your whole group to become godparents? I mean, what if you have, say, four kids? So your firstborn gets your BFFs, and your last kids get your acquaintances as godparents? AAAND what if you're the second one to have kids in your group--do you still ask you group to be godparents? Wouldn't it be, like, an interbreeding of sorts?

OH and it was Ara's birthday last Sunday, yay! I was supposed to make a really lameass joke concerning the Korean girl group 2NE1 on her Facebook wall, but decided against it. Then today she made the joke.

me: uyyy happy birthday!
ara: yeah, 2NE1 na ako!
me: dapat ilalagay ko yan sa wall mo kaso angkorni eh!
ara: ako nga nagsasabi sa bahay na "I'm ~2NE1~ na"

We also saw this really cool peacock feather headband at a boutique. M-m-moneeeeey. My dad will totally bitch if he sees it but it's so ~pretty~.

No plans for tomorrow. Might head off to UPD for undergrad matters. Or marathon off That 70's Show. Or read The Thief Lord which is assigned to the kid I'm tutoring, but he hates reading so I need to know how to ~introduce~ it to him (he said he snagged his Harry Potter book report off the net, orz). Gah I'm too lazy to function, really.

Today I started my first paying job as a tutor.

Um well it's really just a side-job--my full time job as a bum isn't financially-fulfilling, y'see.

I was really nervous because I know jack shit 'bout what they teach grade school kids these days. Plus I need to totally brush on all the basic subjects.

The kid seemed nice, but quite distracted and obviously super bored with studying. I mean, he doesn't even take down notes from class lectures. He's in Grade 5 and thankfully his Science and Math is still pretty easy. I was quite flustered because I didn't know where to start and I dunno if he really learned anything. GAH I really hate being paranoid.

And I hope he gets a high grade in his quiz tomorrow. Go Kid Go!

Anyway, the family's super rich, and I think the kid's mom's pretty nice (we only talked over the phone). My dad was a bit convinced that they'd maltreat me because they're rich (he watches a lot of telenovelas). The kid's room was twice mine and he has his own iPhone.
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This morning I also watched a National Geographic Channel show about time-traveling. It has a lot of theoretical physics and was still hard to understand even in layman's terms. I even dozed off a bit at some point, but Stephen Hawking was super cool!

Physics seems fun, but it makes my head hurt. I mean, it's like theoretical physicists conjure stuff out of thin air and get paid while doing so. And it's like they're so invested in things like super strings and wormholes--things that they just theorized but haven't seen yet. It's like believing in unicorns or something.

Well excuse me for being such a science heathen.
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I'm really not used to blogging anymore. Or, I guess, writing/speaking in English? From now on I'd refrain from writing in Pilipino. This and my *cough* old school journal's my only application of English these days.

Halloween is probably my favorite major holiday, mostly because my dad goes to Tarlac and doesn't drag me with him.

Yesterday there was this really long brownout. I spent the night knitting and writing. Both were hard to do, as my only light source were two really small scented candles. But I was bored and was conserving my DSLite's battery.

Lau asked me if I want to take over his sister's previous side-job: tutoring a 5th-grader. This is embarrassing, but IDK if I still know 5th grade anything. And Lau-lau said that the kid's makulit. BUT MONEY~! And side-job while on vacation!

Haven't talked to Lau yet so I don't have much details.

Oh, and I was supposed to make a Happy Halloween! drawing, but meh. The only Halloween-y about it is the girl's pumpkin hair clip. I didn't finish it, but mmm,( here's a screencap. )

Oh and I didn't join NaNoBloPoMo this year. I managed to post every day last year, but I...don't think I can think of something to write for 30 straight days this year.

:< I miss my f-list. I feel like people have been posting less and less. Or maybe abandoned LJ completely =___=.

I miss reading. I don't think I've even read 5 books last year. I've even made a read at least 2 books per month resolution, which went a bit alright 'til August, but gotten awry when I got sick, got busy with acads, got distracted by the typhoon, etc.

So now I've got free time, yay! I've actually finished Ribblestrop and Half Moon this week, and am halfway through this other book I just bought today (Confessions of a Yakuza). I'm trying not to buy another book 'til I'm done with this list.

And by "trying", I meant that I just made that resolution today, but was promptly distracted by a second-hand bookstore.

The Beatles - I bought that 2 years ago and still haven't finished it. Actually I think I'm near-ish the part where they'd go to Germany? I skipped a lot though and finished the part where they've already had a falling-out 'til the ending. Something about the narration bothers me.

In the Name of the Rose - It has priests. And a medieval setting. I don't know why I bought it. Oh yes, there's a version of this book with a really pretty cover.

Galapagos - bought for 20Php. Nuff said.

Dune, Small Gods, and The Jewel in the Crown - Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction. I rarely read those kind of books (sci-fi is a tad depressing, fantasy has this weird narrative, and just the word "historical fiction" sounds boring, sry2say), but I'm trying to ~expand my horizons~ (aka I'm getting sick of YA books/shoujo manga).

So there! My dad told me that I can go out a bit too, and he's even allowed me to go at Lau's birthday party tomorrow. Things are looking up♥

orz I'm kind of bored though =___________=

This has been a really long week for me, ugh.

Fortunately I started it by heckling a friend to go out and eat at ChoKiss with me♥

Next week I'd finally pass my bound thesis. That or I WON'T GRADUATE 'TIL MARCH AHAHAHA.

Everyone else's vacations started but mine (and a few other like-minded individuals...aka those still neck-deep with revisions). Hazel nicely stayed the whole day at SLIS for me yesterday (I was the only one at the whole corridor). And Hannah offered to go with me when I finally take my thesis for binding. Aw.

I bought a few books. I changed my LJ layout and user icons (see RPattz all prettied up *u*). I started Phase 1 of my Spring Cleaning. I bumped into an old friend and got her number (I asked why she didn't treat us after she graduated. Her reply? "uy pumayat ka ah!"). I spend my break times watching TV.

Nothing much is happening. Mostly I sit all day, typing revisions and printing stuff. Which is surprisingly tiring or something, since I'm ready to pass out by 8:00 pm most days.

Meh how boring. Honestly I need to get out more (flat-out get out), ugggh. Yesterday the guys watched G-Force (I think. They were still tossing between The Informant! and that when I left) and I couldn't go because they were going to watch a 5:00 pm show and I was so tiiiired (well, not that my parents would let me if I wasn't), sigh.

SEVEN DAYS OF SHARING

day ❻ a quote

Taken from Calvin and Hobbes, one of my favorite comic strips (well okay, aside from that I only like Foxtrot, Kiko Machine, and BeerKada. "One of my favorite comic strips" isn't saying much):

"I figured that once you grew up, you automatically knew what to do in any given scenario. I don't think I'd been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed."



Sigh. I used to think that way too :/