Thesis Writing

I always have big plans for blog write ups forgetting that i am too lazy and quite inept at tech-jazziness. Grissom said: "Our best intentions are often wrought with disappointments." (message from a bored Rommel-stuck-in-Cotabato-with-no-TV)

Like for this post, i was gonna put pictures to prove that thesis-writing makes people ugly, silly, and perpetually hungry (i'm taking a break from my "in the zone" time cos my stomach's acidity is too high --i think i fainted-- and the dang bread's still frozen cos we store it in the freezer. so...). Uhm, yeah, i lack, make that LACK the know-how for that.

Hunger makes me forget the profound stuff i was planning to write.

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Clues that i'm working on my thesis

ONE:
BIG backpack holds my pad of clean (Rx) paper, pages and pages of data, field notebook, readings, newly-bought kikay-kit-turned-pencil-holder, yosi, jacket (late afternoons at kanlu can be cool), umbrella (it rains sometimes), organizer (CHAR!) where i write dates of exams and such but do not chech anyway so i still end up forgetting i have one the following day. im too hungry to care if i missed anything.

TWO:
If you don't see my backpack, see if i've plugged my ears with earphones. It works two ways: if i need to concentrate and keep people from pestering me for lighter or yosi or stuff; and, it also gives the distraction i need when i'm too bored/tired/lazy to think.

THREE:
I hang around the canteen (i always do that) but not for Tambay101 but because they have food and coffee. (shhh... these days, coffee is my dirty-yummy little secret.)

FOUR:
Nobody can talk to me without me maneuvering the conversation to such talk as relative abundance, Hipposideros diadema and Ptenochirus jagori. That was Latin you know. ;p

FIVE:
I don't text back or if i do, it's hours later (if i remember) and i turn down invitations for BEER! (im sure it misses me too)

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For those writing or will write your thesis papers, be kind to yourself and make SEVERAL back ups. Diskette, CD, USB, whatever suits you. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you send a copy to your own email. It'll save your skin.

SABLAY, here i come!!