Writer’s Bloc
penny March 20th, 2007
I’m having an uneventful night. Supposed to be working I can’t seem to get any juices flowing [I'm supposed to be drafting a couple of papers], that I just decided “to hell with it” for now, and just relax for a bit. So I thought some loosened screws can be tightened up by blabbing a bit of nonsense.
Ok so what to blabber about then? Hmmm…
Doing, yet again, one of my usual hodge-podge storytelling, that which comprises the Pur of the SilPur life.
Pilates. I attended a pilates class late last week, midday on Friday. After the session I decided that I’d freshen up at home instead, the lifestyle center being a mere 6 minute walk from the apartment I’m staying at anyway. When I got home I then made another decision, this time to have a warm bath running. I thought, “Ok, I can still go back to the lab before 3 p.m. That’s a fair bit of time left for the last day of the week to work.” So there I was, stewing in bath salts, and by the time I finished it was past 3. Another decision to rest my head a little proved the downfall of my lab-return plan. I woke up 10.30 that night finding a couple of missed calls and several SMS’s. Oh, how embarrassing. Then and there I realised I had to restructure my fitness classes so I don’t get TOO relaxed that I lose half a day in that fashion again.
The class was envigorating, it was just my dumb decisionmaking of taking that wonderfully relaxing bath right after that did it. But well, I am looking forward to do more classes.
Library books. Whenever I first attend a university I notice that the first thing I abuse is the library. I came to UP and checked out the stacks in the College of Science [nothing to see in the Main Library but dust and annoyingly large halls, sorry I can't feel at home there]. I wowed at the brand-spanking new DLSU collections of journals and fancy latest-edition hard-covered books. I came to UNSW and checked out at 80+ books in my first 2 weeks. Yeeeeeeah, swear I’m not over-estimating [nor am I OC or OA... well maybe I am]. At the moment though I’ve been returning them one at a time and not replacing them ’cause it has become annoying getting emails of reminders to return books I’ve had with me for more than 14 weeks.
Oh, and for the record, my library card number from my high school was… guess? Highlight to see: #0001. Not everyone had a card too, ‘coz you had to sign for it yourself for when you want to loan books. I just happened to be the first one to sign out one that time.
Foodies, other junk and lollies. Also, since I came, I’ve established a pile of food on top of our lab’s fridge. I first brought in fresh fruits, a jar of fruit candies [lollies], then a box of crackers, later on some tea bags and then more crackers and then a bottle of juice. Now it has grown to include a tube of potato crisps [chippies], bags of jellies, a packet of gum, more tea bags [of differing types, coz I find that people here prefer different types], choco chip cookies, barquillos, polvoron, barquiron and a box of sugar. Inside the fridge are milk, lemon cookies, and each person’s juice of choice. Also water bottles. I swear, everywhere I go, I tend to just infect people with my penchant for food in general. [I'll put up a picture I took 2 weeks ago of the fridge-top next time I'm on.]
Sandwiches. I can’t really process my cooking skills at all when I am busy. I need to have a fair amount of time to think about shopping for ingredients and setting aside time to actually be in the kitchen to cook. That’s where sandwiches come in. Ever since I ate in that sandwich construction place in one of the food places in campus, I had been so inspired with what things you can put in a sandwich. So when I go out to shop, I tend to pick up things like cranberry sauce, jalapenos, olives [I don't fancy them too much though], chicken slices, ham, bacon, cheese [different sorts], shaved carrots, walnuts [yeah, crunchy effect], mustard [different kinds!], avocado [guacamole!], etc. The different kinds of bread are also fun to choose, yet I can’t buy too many since they’re best when really new. I can easily keep track of what I have and not have in the fridge quite easily when it comes to sandwiches. It’s amazing. Never thought I’d say so now, but I love making sandwiches.
Mmmmm [Homer-style] Sandwiches…
Ok I think that’ll be it for now… I think I’ve got my head greased a bit. Back to work.
This just solidifies that you are a certified nerd.
card number 0001? what the?!
wow pen, you pushed thru with the pilates class, cool! i just watched a Friends episode last night where Chandler discovered he loved bathing (’stewing in salts’).
ako naman, i get hyper, even after an evening workout. pero oo, sarap matulog after. (and not because the muscles are aching)
Sandwiches!! conventional lang alam ko e, boiled egg, or boiled chicken in mayo. hehe pero Olivers do serve bacon/ham sandwich with cranberry and twas good.
@ajay: Hey, if you ask what I checked out from the library, they were NOT for schoolwork at all. Those were the times I was discovering Elizabethan literature with stuff like Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility. I was sooooooo in love with English literature then. Yeah I’m a nerd. But a romantic one =P
@noems: remember it was supposed to be a yoga class? Heh, but the yoga instructor had schedule problems so a pilates instructor came instead. Anyhow, it was all good. =)
And I think it was “stewing in your own filth” as he so blatantly put it when he was speaking to Monica. =) Sarap nga matulog, sobrang relaxed. Na-attenuate pa yun ng bath grabe.
Oo nga no, boiled eggs. I can make egg sandwiches pala. I seriously never thought of that ’til now. I’ve been eating hard-boiled eggs with salt for the longest time here too.
Cranberry is best with turkey =)