My Pre-Finals Crisis

As the end draws near…
So what?
Your problems aren’t my problems.
Your shit isn’t my shit to clean up.
My reputation shouldn’t be yours to frizzle.
My ideas aren’t yours to twist, mangle, misinterpret, and especially, ignore.
Why the hell did I have to deal with this?
Damn.
I trusted you.
Can’t believe I had to lose sleep over You And Them.
Can’t believe [...]

The pain that is catching up

It’s ten in the evening and I’m back on this chair, in front of this laptop, struggling to write.
As I think of what to say I am surrounded by a huge pile of books to my left. Books on etiquette, honor, manners, relationships, civility and dream-chasing. I am a teacher, teaching the course “Personality and [...]

Keep moving

Yesterday was another textbook example of things not going according to plan.
My aunt was scheduled to pay a visit to her doctor yesterday, as well as meet up with the folks at her health insurance company to renew her membership. Now last week, I drove to and from Novaliches to Makati to do a lot [...]