hello again.

i haven’t blogged in a long while. only because i don’t have time and i find it somewhat tedious nowadays to relive the moments of my day, my week, my month. and so the urge to verbalize my thoughts has not gotten the better of me lately until today.when things are going downhill, it feels like every small event is a tribute to the bad patch one is going through. it started for me, this morning, when my iPod died on me without warning. but i didn’t have time run home for my back up iPod, so i set off for class anyway, without the reassurance that it is not permanently damaged.

on my way to school, a bird pooped on my car’s windshield while i was on the freeway. and the rest of the day followed in a whirlwind. i had to step out of class for a meeting with my research project’s supervising professor regarding the abstract S. and i wrote for submission to an upcoming conference. like i predicted, he thought it was crap and he intends to rewrite it. which is really kind of him, truly. but when he talked about how he could feel the pain in the writing, i wonder if he does know about those hours we spent till 2am, agonizing over the best words to use. i thought everything was done after the meeting and i went back for class.

but all was not over. i spent the next hour while a film on racism was being shown to the class, emailing and texting. i don’t think i caught more than 3 minutes of what the hour-long film was about and left feeling bereaved that i had not learnt. i was also too much in a rush to say a proper goodbye/keep-in-touch to my classmates in this Intercultural Communication module. it was a small class, and everyone knew everybody. we went for lunch together (during the hour-long break between our lecture and tutorial slots) and basically had pretty good discussions and conversations to look back fondly on. i really enjoyed the discussion-style of the class, which is fairly uncommon locally. lectures are hardly conducted in such a laissez-faire way.

and when i finally thought i could drive home and just rest my frazzled nerves, something else cropped up and i had to drive back to school to email a document. some bad driving (which potentially threatens the well-being of my car) and bad traffic afterwards, i am finally home. but knowing i have two papers to finish which are due by the end of this week. thank god we got an extension for the Intercultural Communication research paper. so it is small comfort for now.