selective soliloquy

7.23.2006

eighteen

happy birthday to me,
happy birthday to me,
happy birthday, happy birthday,
happy birthday to me...

so i finally reached official adulthood. i never really thought i'd be spending it the way i did.

some people have debuts.
some people have informal parties.
some people spend a quiet dinner with the family.
others sleep it off.

at 12 midnight of july 21, i was trying desperately to cram for 2 invertebrate zoology exams. enough said. so this is my birthday sked:

12:00 am - had my laptop open, my handouts strewn across my tiny dorm table, was slouching and yawning from exhaustion, saying things over and over in my head like "acantharia - strontium sulfate test" and "podophrya - alveolates, phylum ciliophora, class kinetofragminophora, subclass suctoria". a few people started greeting through texts and phone calls so that kind of kept me awake.

2:30 am - had to sleep. was nowhere near ready for the exam.

5:15 am - woke up. lots of messages. slightly cheered up, although heavily groggy.

5:30 am - birthday call from oyayi. feeling cheerful. finally got into the shower.

6:00 am - birthday call from chie. spent 10 minutes changing while filling chie in on random new details of my life. partially dried my hair, crammed a few more bits of information.

6:30 am - headed down to the AS.

7:00 am - started physics experiment. ran out of graphing paper, had to get bryan to bring some more. had the most frustrating lab experiment of my life. copying and sharing of answers prohibited by professor reminiscent of hitler, hence resulting in three hours of non-stop stress.

10:00 am - had to study away from people - frustrated and stressed out. ended up studying with ron near the chem lab rooms - somewhere i actually felt comfortable in.

11:00 am - invertebrate zoology lab exam. stations. tricky. long. confusing. in short, difficult. some @$$ moved one of the specimens in the microscope so i had to stay behind to finish the exam when all of my other classmates were already getting ready for the lecture exam.

12:20 pm - finally finished the lab exam. close to a breakdown. had a hurried lunch of "burger steak" (which tasted nothing like a burger or a steak). reviewed for the final time.

1:00 pm - invertebrate zoology lec exam. easier than the lab exam, but not by much. fell asleep while taking the exam - twice. was able to answer everything though. got distracted by the screams and yells of all the freshmen enjoying the "handog sa freshman". felt slightly bitter.

2:30 pm - thought the hell was over. apparently thought wrong. surprise quiz-slash-mock dep exam in genetics lec. major mental block. felt CNS neurons gradually degrading.

4: 00 pm - just really wanted to go home. on the verge of crying.

4:30 pm - fell asleep in the dorm while waiting for the driver.

6:30 pm - finally on the way home to taguig.

8:30 pm - stuck in two hours of traffic and wondering why God apparently hated me.

9:00 pm - exhausted. arrived at taguig. was greeted by a fabulous dinner though. and a bizu cake. frustration lessened somewhat.

10:00 pm - finished dinner. remarkably, watched maalaala mo kaya with marielle. which was an indication that something was indeed wrong with my higher brain function.

12:00 am - finally crashed in bed.

*sigh* what a birthday.

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