Finals today were killer--and I mean that the test (departmental, sadly) contained so much information we hadn't taken up in class, it was kind of ridiculous. But I am one of the most zen people when it comes to stuff like tests because a couple of years in a pre-med course will teach you one thing: you can't freaking control everything. So yeah. Despite this terrible curse of a test, I still had a pretty good day. The test is over and the term is over and goodness. I can sleep in tomorrow morning. I have every intention of waking up no earlier than 10 am. And then I plan to have a long, slow breakfast and finish an episode of TMZ.
Keav came to Taft today and we spent the day together--we had lunch at around 11 and he waited for me until after my test and then we just spent a lot of time in the Agno chicken chop place (which I swear, doesn't have a name as far as I'm concerned except "sa loob") goofing around. It was such a relief to have Keav with me. I'm a very paranoid person and a lot of the time I find myself having these terrible morbid fantasies about Metro Manila being split in half by a gigantic earthquake and not being able to make my way to him. Silly, but you know--these things keep me up at night and I have enough trouble with insomnia as it is. :) So, yeah.
John Green is pretty fucking amazing. I bought this book last week (good thing too because all his books are now sold out everywhere I've checked--National Bookstore Taft, Alabang & Greenbelt + Powerbooks Alabang) and I wasn't too into it at first just because it was too adventure-like for my taste. As much as I like thrilling things I'm a person who looks for a sort of mundane, slower pace when it comes to stories that I enjoy. I liked Looking for Alaska's treatment better, I mean. This doesn't mean nothing interesting happens--I thoroughly enjoyed Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry and that scared the shit out of me. But it's just that when I read something, I look for submersion in the mundane things: the character's apartment, their car, a childhood memory. And there wasn't a lot of it in this book at first but now that I'm about halfway through it, it's gotten a lot better. The headlong plunge into adventure that initially irked me seems pretty justified now. Hrrrm. Let's see how this goes. So far though (all that said), I'm enjoying this book quite a lot.
I'm going to spend tonight writing again, working on this pet project of mine. It's exhausting sometimes, waiting for everyone to fall asleep. I can't focus properly when there are people in the house or when it's noisy so I wait for everyone to head to bed before getting to the meat of what I have to do. :) Le sigh. That is counter-productive and a huge waste of time but I do my best. Hope everyone had a good day! :D And goodluck to everyone else who has finals!
