Check-up

-
Just wanted to mark this point in my life, where, in the span of one weekend, I
  1. Performed slam poetry for the first time, and actually won third place in the competition. Pretty big accomplishment for me since I'm terrified of being on stage, and I am really shy about showing my poetry to other people. I'm just a shy person so yay, +1 expression skill. 
  2. Am generally doing well in terms of writing. In a short amount of time I've written a poem, a section for our research review, and a feature article about turtles, and I've received good feedback. Feeling very good about this. Never fancied myself a writer; always thought I never used fancy enough words. But this is good. This means I'm on the right track.
  3. Bonded with a group of people during Pawikan Weekend. Quite an unlikely bunch, if I do say so myself, because it was composed of two people I had never met before, one person from the batch ahead of me, and three classmates. Again, I'm very shy, but I forgot all about that this weekend. And we got to see two mother turtles lay their eggs! 
  4. Am well-rested for the first time in months. This module is very light (hello, we only had one class today and we'll have only two tomorrow), plus there was no Monday exam, so YES I had the weekend to chillax. On the beach. With friends. And turtles. Hooray!
And in general...
  1. I'm making progress with Rap's cat, Iming. She never used to let me hold her for very long but now she doesn't complain when I pick her up. Cat cuddles ftw.
  2. Tsubibo is done and it feels great to get that thing over with. The screening got off to a rocky start but the movie has been receiving positive reviews. (Read the latest one here.)
  3. The semester is rolling to a close. Yes, rolling, like a gentle wave meeting the shore. Lots of chill time. I'm not used to this feeling of being NOT stressed. It feels... good. Really good. 
Overall mood: Good 
Overall stress: Low
Overall happiness: High
Overall satisfaction with life direction: High

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for caring :">

Popular posts from this blog

summer plans

-
I found out yesterday from Alessi that our last exam is on the 23rd! (Yeah, I haven't gotten around to checking the March calendar yet.) My flight's on the 26th (with Gerard! ), so that gives me three extra days of ~COMPLETE IDLENESS~ woohoo. So anyway. I'm really excited to go home. It's just two weeks though, and after that, TWO MONTHS of summer classes. Which means I'll have to fly all the way back to sweltering Manila to take up the TWO SUBJECTS that I and the rest of the Health Sci majors are required to take. Gahh. I can feel the heat waves reverberating towards me from the future. Right. Lest I digress any further, here are some of my (our) ~summer plans~ roflmao March:  Go home and be happy as a bee for two weeks! April-May: Take Psychology and German. -_- Take the Carlos Celdran tour around Manila! n_n Sign up for PAWS! At last! Light up some environmentally destructive floating lanterns, and then later lecture everyone on how they've just...
Read more

women superheroes

-
Image
A lot of my close friends are boys. Boys who like comic books. I hang around them a lot, and usually we talk about random things like physics and foreigners and lobsters having no pain receptors. We went to watch The Amazing Spiderman on a whim just recently. It was fun. Sometimes it's not so fun. I used to get a lot of sandwich jokes until those stopped being funny. Now I get "d'oh you're a girl so of course you hate comic books" jokes. I don't hate comic books. I love Neil Gaiman's Sandman . And Walking Dead, too. And Scott Pilgrim!!! But I don't read superhero comics. It's hard to be interested in them when most, if not all, of the superhero women 1.) have gigantic breasts, 2.) wear sexy clothing, and 3.) are always in stereotypically feminine poses. What if the male characters posed like the female ones? (c) Kevin Bolk And look at that. Why can't the men wear clothes as revealing as the women, or women wear clothes as concealing...
Read more

Box O' Rice

-
Image
To be honest, I don't even remember if it's called Box OF Rice, or Box O' Rice. I hope it's Box O' Rice. It just sounds cooler that way. But anyway. I went there last Friday for dinner, and it was my first time there. It's a cozy little place right next to my dorm, and they serve exactly what their name implies: boxes of rice. Boxes of rice with toppings, of course. Emphasis on the word "boxes." Which means there are no plates involved. Which means you can bring the boxes in and out of the store as you please. I should've noted this earlier, because I embarrassed myself at the counter, telling the cashier TWICE that I wanted my box of rice "to go." Durrr. Boxed na. To go pa. Anyway, the food itself is good, for P60-P70 priced meals. My only complaint is that their meat-to-rice ratio needs a bit more tweaking. There's just so much rice, and so little of anything else! That's Pinoy portioning for you. Actually, the store don...
Read more