Things Lauren has been up to for the past week

It’s just school stuff, actually, but I don’t want to incrimminate myself by making this public.

Monday
I can’t actually remember what I did on Monday.

Tuesday
Spent a lot of the afternoon helping put a collage together for Kayelle’s birthday the next day. Tina couldn’t find a frame for it like the one she gave me for my birthday, so we just used a 1/4th illustration board. It looked very pretty afterwards though, or maybe it was because a lot of the pictures were really funny.

Wednesday
Pulled an all-nighter to study for Theology orals and a long test on Sociology. For Theo I had to read three articles, and since my professor is known to ask questions about every single little detail in the articles, I had to know everything forwards and backwards. I spent three hours making an outline, an hour to study them, then one more our to read up on Sociology. I fell asleep at 1 am (which is already late for me since I usually go to bed at 10 and I have to be up by 6 at the latest).

Thursday
Theo orals went surprisingly well but I’m not too happy about it. The whole thing was done with the assigned group our professor gave us during the start of the semester. The way it works is that he gives the group one question, we gather up our answers, and we pick a spokesperson to give the answer during the exam. Then our professor asks individual follow-up questions to everyone in the group, including the spokesperson.
And because my groupmates are irresponsible fuckers, I was the only one who bothered studying for the exam. Guess who got picked as the spokesperson. Our group got an A–we were the only one in class who did–and I should be happy about that. But it’s my A. I thought up of the answers, I made the speech (which got cut off halfway through because my professor said that I had appartently made my point clear already), I was the one who spent four fucking hours studying the previous night. And I hate that everyone got a free ride and I let them, because it’s my grade too. What pissed me off even more was when my groupmate said gleefully, “Thank God we have Lauren in our group!” after walking out of the room. See, this is why I’d much rather work alone than with a group. I work just as hard, and I get to keep the grade that I earned.

Friday
It started out as a normal day, but halfway through film class it started raining. And it wasn’t just drizzling–the rain was pouring so hard you could barely see the next building, and the thunder boomed louder than I’ve heard in a long time. The rain caused a flash flood in Katipunan Avenue, and I heard that it was a bad flood too–the water was waist-deep. What should have been a 45-minute ride to the house took me around two and a half hours. I got back at 9 pm, sleepy and hungry.

Saturday
Saw Imelda at Glorietta 4. It has got to be the funniest documentary I’ve ever seen. I spent half of it laughing and the other half letting out shrieks of “What?!”–much to the annoyance of the other people in the theater. The woman is delusional and actually has her own (twisted) philosophy. She even wrote a book about Imeldism (she didn’t call it that–I did), and the whole thing is weird. It involves beauty and is so confusing, I had difficulty following it. So I won’t bother trying to write it down and explain it to you but hey, I actually admire her for doing that. Someday I’ll write a book about the philosophy I live by.

I should get to bed, I have a field trip tomorrow.