“no amount of toxin can make you a superhero. being a superhero is innate”
-superpinya
i would’ve made superwoman find another job with the stunt i pulled last week. after my last (grueling) exam last march31, i erased the word ‘rest’ from my vocabulary. i spent most of the holy week in penitence. i did my mini-thesis which was supposedly due on the 6th and the 7th of April. but the GASC would also take place during those dates in Baguio. what’s a girl gotta do? of course i wouldn’t miss that Baguio trip for the world even if that isn’t really a vacation trip. and so i crammed the paper for four and a half days. a feat i wouldn’t dare given a choice because this mini-thesis is for my French literature class, the sole subject that gave me constant headache, sleepless nights and a lot of failing grades despite all the efforts i’ve exhausted for it.
i finished my thesis at exactly 2am on April5. we were scheduled to leave at 9 in the morning of the same day for Baguio. i was supposed to leave the house at 6 but then i was too sleep-deprived for the past four days to be able to wake up at such early hour. i left the house at 7 and called on to all the gods to make a miracle for me. then all my hopes vanished when i saw the traffic at Alabang. i was sweating like crazy on my seat, i wanted to jump off the bus and race to Cubao. when the bus finally arrived at magallanes, i made a mad dash to the mrt. but i was already too late. my co-officers at the student council told me to wait for the bus at trinoma because i wouldn’t make it to Cubao on time. thankfully, i arrived at trinoma before the bus.
7 hours later we’re already in Baguio. my stay there is a whole different story.
i arrived at Manila on the night of April7. the next day i started my paper in EL170. yes, you read it right. i sacrificed paper-making time in EL170 just to be able to go to Baguio. the paper was supposedly due on the 9th. so i figured i still have 2days to work on the paper when i come back. but, thanks to my dear classmates, sir E moved the deadline to April12. three days later, my nerves finally relaxed. i finished the paper and i’m just waiting for the deadline. hay. this is the first time my semester stretched out this long that the sunflowers along univ ave had already bloomed. anyhow, better busy than bored with nothing to do.
