- Am struck by the following verse from St. Paul's letter to the Galatians (chapter 5, verse 13) from today's Second Reading : "For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather serve one another through love."
- Another brief chat with Joel (because I wished him a blessed weekend on Facebook). He had met up with his parents in Cavite to visit his folks there. A good thing they weren't caught in the flash floods in Calamba caused by the heavy rain in the evening.
- I escort our remaining cat, Hedwig, as she takes an afternoon excursion around our garden. The poor thing who has been cooped inside the house was quite delighted with the open space and ran from one end of the garden to the other.
- We have a power outage practically all day (9am to 5pm. Come lunchtime, mama resorts to heating up leftover food on our gas stove. We wonder how we ever got along without a microwave oven years ago.
- Despite the power outage, it's fortunately not too hot, thanks to rain showers in the afternoon. The rain showers eventually turn into a downpour and then it seems there is a typhoon by late evening!
- Because of the power outage and also because my cellphone was also low on battery power, I have time to read some books the old-fashioned way, i.e. by reading physical books rather than ebooks: the Abbé Trochu's wonderfully biography of the great St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney.
- Punch holes into some scratch paper to use as pages in my class notebooks and discover how wonderful it is to write notes on unruled paper! What freedom!
- Hang out with some alumni who arrived to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of their student organization. I've long forgotten how good it feels to be with people your age.
- Have a brief Facebook chat with Joel who apparently wanted to give me his new cellphone number because he's terminated his postpaid subscription with Globe. Always nice to hear from him no matter how brief our chats may be.
- I wake up just before 6AM to read a message from my sister saying, "Haay. Lost also?! :(" and realized that Federer had lost in the second round at Wimbledon to Stakhovsky! I had listened to coverage of the match over Wimbledon radio until I had to hit the sack at 2AM and sensed that Federer was having a difficult time fighting the Ukrainian off. The loss brings to an end, the Swiss' amazing run of 36 consecutive quarterfinals at a grand slam tournament.
- Settling down into the semester as a student: I install JFLAP in my computer here at work. Interesting little piece of software. And although I actually have the books themselves, I download the pdf versions of the textbooks for the courses I am taking, just for convenience.
- Arrived at the COOP cafeteria to buy lunch and heard that a student there had just lost his laptop to a thief. Said student quite carelessly left his bag with the laptop inside on top of a table--which was near the cafeteria entrance, mind you!--and went off to join the queue to buy food. The bag then, not surprisingly in this day and age, disappeared in the blink of an eye.
- I sit in both lecture and lab classes of our automata theory course. Very glad to have JMS back from sick leave (he had surgery for appendicitis two weeks ago) as no one can teach the lecture like he does. It was freezing cold tho in the computer laboratory room that I was only too glad to leave after 45 minutes at the end of the lab lecture. Have made a mental note to bring a sweater next time.
- Ate giniling and tortang talong from the COOP cafeteria for lunch (early because of the 12-1 lecture followed by 1-4 lab). Was planning to eat half a serving as is my custom but the stuff was too good I ended up eating everything!
- I attended the 5:30pm Holy Mass which was celebrated in honor of Opus Dei founder, St. Josemaria Escriva then was able to go to confession afterwards.
- I stay up listening to Wimbledon Radio coverage of the Nadal-Darcis first round match. What a shock that Nadal lost and in straight sets no less!
- I receive text message from our professor saying that we have no class this afternoon because some of our classmates have yet to reorganize their class schedule to accommodate the 1-4pm Tuesday schedule of our class.
- Now that I know what kind of articles I tend to clip, I get to reorganize all my notes in my Evernote account, finally moving stuff out of my "For Sorting Later" notebook into new notebooks. Phew!
- We have several power outages in campus which isn't good because there are faculty meetings lined up all over campus today, notwithstanding all the classes that will get disrupted.
- The lady ahead of me at the queue at the COOP cafeteria turns out to be quite a cheery character: she brings her own food container with partitions instead of having her food placed into plastic bags to go or for take-out and she jokes constantly with her companions despite the sweltering heat (there was power outage then) in the cafeteria.
- I dig out my linear model textbooks (by Graybill and by Searle) from the 'archives'. I never dreamed I'd have to do that again when I shifted to computer science years ago.
- I wake up to find my eyes are red so that it looks like I either cried all night or have conjunctivitis! How embarrassing! Keep my fingers crossed that it's just due to allergies. And to my relief, the redness goes away by midmorning. Phew!
- Joel tells me he attended Mass with his mom and then went to SM Calamba to buy materials/tools for a plumbing job at home. He said he found out that the last show for Man of Steel yesterday was 7:30/8:00 pm. It now appears the schedule on the SM Cinema website was completely wrong! Bummer!
- I open a Pinterest account to keep together all those photos/images I find on the Internet which I heretofore would just download to my hard drive.
- I finally get to attend the monthly recollection after missing it for two months. It has become my quiet time and refuge in these stress-filled and chaotic times.
- While on his way home for the weekend late this afternoon, Joel contacts me about watching Man of Steel at SM Calamba tonight only to find that the last showing is (strangely enough) at 5:10pm. Next time na lang daw. Haay...
- I finally (I keep using that word now) start watching The Sing Off videos Joel gave me way back in October. He said that I would love it--and he was right! I simply the a capella arrangements and variety of styles!
- As of 4:00pm today after finally claiming my computer-printed registration form, having my registration fees reassessed and paying my school fees, I once again became a student. (And got a lot of exercise in the process. Yay!)
- At home, I learn that our beloved cat, Marshmallow, didn't show up for his 4:00pm meal. Sigh! As of March 2012, we had four cats. By the end of that month, we were left with three when Ash went missing. Then by 03 May 2012, we were left with two when Dot went missing. Now we only have one cat, Hedwig, the mother of both Ash and Marshmallow.
- Wimbledon has finally released its iPad app. And it looks awesome! Can't wait for the tournament to start.
