화요일, 3월 16, 2004
so, there was an account malfunction that happened to me yesterday (apparently my netscape files were corrupt. strange stuff) anyway, that meant that i had to 'tahan' (haven't used that word in a bit. feels funny. oh, and today i used 'jelat' as well.) not having any internet access and trek down to the its helpdesk that was all the way on the other side of town. it was amazing, since i had never seen the place before in my life. actually, i lie, i have seen it before, when i had to go down there to make my campus card. i swear, after walking that long a distance, my life has never been the same.

today was a really good day. of course, so much has happened in the last 24 hours that i can't even begin to touch the tip of what has been going on. someone ran away, or did something tantamount to that, with her boyfriend. quite frankly, there is nothing more that i can say, since everything i had to say after i heard that such a thing had happened has been said. there is no such thing as a fairytale ending in this world, and if it takes her the long way round to find it, then i don't suppose there's anything we can do. all there is left is for us to sit tight and hope that things will ok.

"people will always take the long way round, before you know it you'll be lost and found. live in the sunshine with the shades pulled down, people will always take the long way round."

that was the not-so-good aspect of it. i hate being rational all the time, because then that means that i don't exhibit emotion that easily, meaning that people sometimes think that i don't care about the matter at hand. well, i do, just that sometimes panicking isn't going to solve things. sure, i may worry far too much for my own good, and that's something i ought to change, but sometimes the rational thing that i inherited from my mother just shows up without warning. urgh, i have no idea why that happens.

but, the good part of today. it was filled with laughter, catching up with friends, a useful tutorial, i even managed to get the black cover for my phone that i had been dying to get ever since the first time i actually got the phone. sounds silly, yeah i know, but i was practically begging the phone man to bring in another black model of the phone instead of the all-too-common white, and what would you know, someone (lester) actually wanted the white version of the phone cover, so it was a fair trade. *big cheesy grin*

and i got to talk to him. things are getting better.

tonight is movie night with faz (and maybe renu), and there are four flicks waiting in the wings for us to watch, so there should be some entertainment for tonight. i can't even remember the titles right now, but wait, i'll get back to you on that. tomorrow is the project entitled "durham by day/durham by night" (yeah, lack of imagination and all that). the idea is, we're going to take pictures of durham, at night and in the day, just as spring is on the way, to awaken the artist within us just as the first fingers of spring creep up over the grass.

spring brings out the poet in me.