this year's my first attempt at completing simbang gabi and it has been a great experience (tho, knowing how i've come to hate waking up so early in the morning, i've opted for the LITERAL simbang gabi, 8:30 pm) the weather's cool, the choir sings my favorite carols plus i get to see and catch up with some college friends over churros con chocolate ( Read more... )

celebrating my twenty-second birthday today and looking back at the year that was, i realize i have a lot to be thankful for ( Read more... )

will be teaching Julius Caesar to my juniors and am prepping them up for the author they detest the most: William Shakespeare ( Read more... )

10 things you like ( Read more... )

last night, i caught the interview the new miss international granted vicki morales... while i admire morales' taste in clothes (simple and unfussy), her interviewing skills leave a lot left to be desired. never mind if we share the same college alma mater ( Read more... )

well now here i am again, typing away at the RSF as though the clock had turned back... am here to return some books i borrowed for my masteral classes. in a couple of minutes, i have to go over the Arrupe because a family friend priest invited my family over for their "guest night ( Read more... )

i go home this weekend with God-knows-how-many-sets-of-backlog-to-check and God-knows-how-many-things-to-prepare-for-next-week.

blech!

but tonight, will do what i want do and that is to curl up in bed and read my book of choice!

i realize that i had never lost myself in a book during my entire college life. yes, the insistent "Find the theme quickly so you can do the paper" had been breathing down my neck for four years ( Read more... )

- finished my education units classes yesterday (6 units). never mind if i have three papers to do, at least i've got my saturdays back ( Read more... )

am starting over (i.e. setting aside if only's and discarding what if's in a new quarter of more lesson plans, classes, papers to check, etc.) though obviously i have clung to two all-time favorites: purple anything and (Russian) history :)

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