Tick-tock

Ah, it's going to be a hectic week.  I can see it now.  Banyaga paper coming up, with the final Thesis proposal as well.  Better get rested up, and pray that I can focus on what needs to be done and get serious for a change. So, I better make the most of the weekend. …

Breathing Room

The class was able to get an unexpected break, as Dr. Baytan (uncharacteristically I might add) allowed us to use the time supposed to be allocated to his class tomorrow to work on our long papers.  Things are really tight, as not only is the deadline for the Banyaga paper coming closer and closer, there's …

Dead River

Dead River The old river no longer flows, Its bright azure waters long gone. In its place, a dry riverbed, Its surface baked hard by the sun. No longer do iridescent Fish swim through its robust currents; their sun-bleached bones lay here and there. No longer does emerald wreathe its banks; like skeletal fingers empty …

Wandering Attentions

Urgh.  No work and all play makes Myssa feel rather stupid.  That pretty much sums my feelings for today. I... Really need to shape up.  I can't last long this way, but oh, it's so SO HARD to focus on what I need to do.

Productive Unproductivity

Yes, I realize how contradictory the title is, but bear with me here.  I feel like talking a bit, especially now that the issues my house's phone lines have been suffering were resolved (for the moment). I just spent the good bit of the afternoon looking through the Kultura shop at SM Mall of Asia, …

Life-Gift

Well, here I am. I'm a year older to day, but I feel no different. I wasn't expecting to, but sometimes one wonders if, for this year at least, it wouldn't be just the same old routine. Sadly nothing particularly noteworthy happened, but I could at least take comfort in that I wasn't sick in …

Lethargy

Today I did... nothing, basically.  It felt like it was another long weekend, and if it wasn't for the fact that I had a paper to write I would have just stayed in bed.  It was strange, since I felt so tired and couldn't keep my eyes open, but as far as I remember I …

Denoument

At least that's what I'd hope.  I'm still not happy that, once more, the house is without a stable internet connection.  Ah, I knew it was too good to last. With the archive research exercise done with -- I just had to go with Francisco Arcellana's Divide by Two -- I just need to come …

Time-Bound

Well, it's past noon already, and I have to say that my search so far has been mostly fruitful. I'm currently at the Filipinas Heritage Library in Makati looking through their collection, but while the quality (in terms of preservation) of the books they have is admirable (even the more venerable books look almost-new), they …

Oooh, embarrassing.

There's one more day left until I have to post the result of my research on Francisco Arcellana's short story Divide by Two, and while it seems I'm tight for time it doesn't seem all that bad.  The DLSU Filipiniana library has been a little helpful, and as a result I've bee able to track …