august really knows how to make me miserable. well, more miserable. got called for evidence. again! for the third consecutive time! on the first two instances i was called, i recited. or i tried to recite. of course, the attempts were futile. i was told to sit down. but the third time i was called, i didnt even try. i thought, whats the point of exerting any effort. its august, any attempt is bound to fail. so i gave up and said im not prepared. which was true to a certain extent. ive read the assigned readings but i havent absorbed it to really say i can pull off a good recitation. tomorrow is the last day of august. i wonder if theres something in store for me.

just got home 30 mins ago. why? had a make-up class for evidence. it was supposed to end by 830pm but i knew that prof avena wont end by that time. but i didnt expect that she would extend til 11pm! i thought maybe 1030 at the most. if some of us didnt complain, she would have continued the class. i wouldnt mind if there werent classes the following day or that we dont commute. but probably all of us have classes the following day and most likely, im not the only one thats going to commute. its 11pm! its hard to catch a jeepney ride by this time! im fortunate that my residence isnt that far but how about the others who live much further. that, to me, is just plain inconsiderate. but then again, thats never been a problem to her, i suppose.

another thing that made it worse was that it started at around 5pm. so we had class from 5pm to 11pm. and my block had a class since 2pm (so we had class for 9 hours straight). there was, i think a total of 1 hour and 5 minutes as break between classes. 30 mins between the nego and evidence class (4:30pm-5pm) and another 35 mins as another break during the (6:45pm-7:20pm) evidence class. last meal i had before i got home, which was almost midnight, was during lunchtime, at around 12:30pm. holy crap. i was starving the entire evidence class. and i was called to recite. how lucky of me. not only am i reciting, im also going to miss the lunar eclipse (wanted to see it, not sure if it was cloudy to ruin the opportunity to see it because i was indoors since 10am-11pm). and since we ended at 11pm, i wasnt able to return the videos i rented. wow, its already overdue today. wonder how much ill pay tomorrow.

it wasnt all bad of course. i learned that the mindmap is not due this saturday. so thank God for that. i could have started it if my monitor didnt break down last saturday. also, the evidence midterms might be moved next week. ok, is that really good? well, yes and no. yes because it will give us more time to prepare. no because it would again affect whats been scheduled!

also, i learned i think last thursday that i might not have a blood illness. good news? not really. i may not be sick but it was also added that my blood isnt normal. well, my blood isnt the average blood. its abnormal compared to other people but it might be normal with regard to me. its like, the natural state of my blood is its abnormal state. wow, its like saying, you dont have cancer. its just so happens that its normal for you to have cancer cells. thats the way i see it.

as of today, bayantel's connection is ok. its fast and not intermittent. i just hope it stays that way. and my cellphone's still not fixed. but even if thats the case, people still text me. i havent replied for weeks! and if i did reply, i use another person's number. my phone's more of a high tech pager or beeper. its got a lot more text and more functions but like a pager or beeper, i really cant use it to reply to the message. dont know when ill be able to have my phone fixed. im getting used to its broken state. maybe there will come a time when i dont feel like having a cellphone anymore. ok, not really. the only time i wont have my cellphone with me completely is when ive decided to become a hermit (which isnt very improbable)

had my PC monitor fixed today. i was right, it was the monitor. its a bit obvious but im a skeptic so that explains why i had to make sure if it really was the monitor. first checked at SM north for computer repair shops because i cant think of any shop in our area. computer repair shops near our area usually close down after a few months or a year or two. well, there was one and they said it would take 3-5 days. they have a lot of pending repairs and only one guy in their staff fixes PC monitors. i even saw another PC monitor of the same brand and model (samsung syncmaster 591s) in the repair shop. wasnt able to ask what was wrong with that one. anyway, it was too long (the 3-5 days before having it repaired and claimed) so we decided to look for another repair shop. and since they are the only repair shop that fixes PC monitors, we had to look somewhere aside from the mall. so we went to kamias, the same road where we had our TV fixed. well, we should have went there first before heading for the mall since there was a repair shop which wasnt only nearer our place but also much cheaper (the one at the mall had a diagnostic fee of P600, based from their posters. the one in kamias only costs P500 total). so i finally had it repaired there. it took more or less 3 hours (which is much faster than 3-5 days). i also saw another PC monitor of the same brand and model as mine. that made me think, is there something wrong with this PC monitor model? why do i keep seeing it in repair shops? the same exact model as mine. so i asked whats wrong with that monitor and they said it was for sale. and apparently its second hand. and then i just read from OJ's bulletin board in friendster that a person he knows is selling her PC. and that PC has the same monitor i have, Samsung SyncMaster 591s. its like, in one day, ive encountered monitors of the same brand and model three times. 2 in the repair shop and one for sale. so is there something wrong with this model? i dont know. ive had this monitor for three years and it never gave me a single problem. it never acted funny and never broke down until last saturday afternoon. after having it fixed, it seems ok again. it just depends how long this one will stay fixed. so far, its been an ok PC monitor. but compared to my old generic monitor which lasted 5 years (at least before having it repaired, total of 6 years of usage), if this samsung monitor breaks down again soon, then it only means its not durable. and durability matters for me when it comes to PC monitors. i think.

no improvement on the PC monitor. ok, that sucked. while leaving the PC running, i did some studying and so far, im satisfied with my progress. but that doesnt mean its enough to be prepared for this coming week. i need to find some time to start reviewing for my midterm exam this coming saturday. and i also have to find out how the hell i can do my mindmap! with a broken PC monitor, i doubt i would be able to do it using only 1/4 of the screen. sure, i can still check my emails, probably use ms word and do some internet related stuff, but making a mind map? it might be possible but would slow me down. maybe slow enough that im better off doing it manually. actually, doing it manually is faster. its more of tiring because you have to do it again to make it look presentable. anyway, ill worry about the mindmap later. im feeling a bit dizzy at the moment. there's something wrong or well, something different with the screen. its making my eye hurt the longer i look at it and making me nauseous.

weird thing about this broken monitor is that, im not only posting a lot of blog entries despite the defective state of my PC, im posting long entries too. its like im trying to use it as much as i can before it finally breaks down to the point i cant use my PC anymore. i mean, im even thinking of reasons just to keep my PC running (like checking how long the monitor will stay fixed, will it revert to its fixed state in some kind of pattern, etc. so far it only stayed fixed for a short time and only on two instances).

and bayantels connection just got disconnected. i will have to copy and paste this entry before i lose all that i just wrote. what a nice weekend im having.

my screen is back to its old broken state again. do i need to buy a new monitor? i think this can be repaired but the question is which is more costly, buy a new one which could last longer or have it repaired but wont guarantee how long it will stay fixed? this monitor's been only 3 years old, when it comes to usage of course. my monitor before this one lasted six years! well, it broke down after five years but the repair done made it last for another year, so six years total. and this one has a better brand. i think. its a samsung monitor. not sure if this is a good brand when it comes to PC monitors. my DVD drive is a samsung and its better than my generic cd drive. but my cd drive is still ok. so in terms of durability, the generic cd drive is doing ok. and so was my old PC monitor. sure the samsung monitor is slightly better but now that it has broken down (i am convinced at the moment that its the PC monitor thats acting funny and not the CPU), the sort of generic monitor i had before is more durable and might have been better. problem with generic products is that, you really cant be assured youll find them again after some time. i havent seen my old monitor being sold in stores for years! to have it repaired or not to have it repaired is the question. most likely, repair is the best option at the moment. buying a new one is just expensive. buying a second-hand monitor is just similar to having it repaired. crap. i just dont know what to do with this. its like a hardware defect on the printer. i wont be able to fix it with some troubleshooting stuff or re-installing something. anyway, im still going to keep the PC running and see what happens next.

my PC monitor is fixed! at the moment. this happened too last night. when it only showed 1/4 of the screen last night, i still continued the things i was doing in my PC (updating the media library, downloading some stuff). just shows how much of an addict i am. wont stop using my PC even if i dont see the entire screen. going to use it as long as i possibly can regardless of the circumstances. well, last night, the screen went back to normal for a few minutes. so i thought the problem was resource related. but minutes later, it broke down again. started closing some applications and it didnt help. restarted it for a couple of times and still no luck. thats why i finally concluded that it might be the PC monitor. a few minutes ago i thought, it might be video card related. i wanted to make sure what the problem was or at least consider all the possibilities i can think of. so i started looking at the monitor properties to see if it was working properly. it said the device was working properly. but of course that doesnt rule out that the monitor is busted. i think the device is working properly refers to non-hardware defects. so i looked at the troubleshooting portion and read all related topics. none of it refers to my current problem. and after a few minutes, i finally closed the troubleshooting window and as i clicked to close it, the PC screen went back to normal. but i havent resized it back to its normal size. im a skeptic. i still doubt whether the PC monitor (so far, it seems its really the PC monitor thats the root of the problem, i cant think of other possible problems not related to the PC monitor) is actually fixed. so im still going to let the PC run (i didnt switch it off when i posted my last blog entry, i used the PC as a cd player for a while to see if the screen will go back to normal, which it did!) to see how long this will take. so im monitoring my monitor.

and bayantel's connection is still intermittent. a technician was said to have dropped by. i wasnt there because i was in UP. they said it was ok but nothing has changed. well, the modem's better. so far. havent checked because the monitor got busted. so how can i fully check whether the connection is ok? and my cellphone's still broken. everytime i receive a text message, i have to restart the phone just to read it. and whenever i went out lately, it started to rain. but thats not really an unfortunate thing. not much. i have a midterm exam on september 1. and i also have to submit another mindmap on september 1. how can i do that with a busted monitor? i cant be said to be procrastinating because i just learned the deadline just last week and of course, i cant really work on it right away. so my plan was to do it a week before. and today or yesterday was a week before. and i cant do it any time soon with this monitor! might just go manual on the mindmap.

out of sheer persistence, i was able to write this blog. my PC monitor is busted. not much of a surprise there. the PC usually crashes (and other PC related problems) in august. this time, its the monitor. i think this is the second time i had PC monitor problems (if i recall correctly, back in august 2004 my old PC monitor broke down). this time, im only seeing less than 1/4 of the screen. so i had to use the resizing options of the monitor to at least see half of it. good thing i can see the lower half because thats the more important part (start menu, taskbar, etc). so now, im blogging, checking my emails and using my PC seeing only the lower half of the PC screen. and its not even the normal size of the lower half. i had to reduce it to the smallest screen size possible to see more the PC screen. and like i said, i can only see the lower half.

how did it happen and when? well, i was updating my media library last night. i left the PC for a while and watched TV. not more than 5 minutes later, when i looked again at the PC screen, it was already reduced to 1/4 of its size and i can only see 1/4 of the normal screen. so it didnt reduce its size, it just didnt show 3/4 of the screen. so i asked, what the crap is happening? i studied the screen and saw that the CPU is ok. its running its operations without any problems. tried to do some clicking here and there and there werent any problems whatsoever (its not slowing down, there werent any weird reactions from the programs i was running). so i figured, it must be the monitor. if it were some sort of malicious program, i thought it would affect the way the PC was controlled but i did not. everything was running ok. so there. and only this morning did i come up with trying to resize the screen so i can see more (because last night i just relied on my familiarity with my PC screen, guessing where to click and which keys to press).

i still have a week to go.

i post often and dont read it after i post. i dont even edit it while i write it! shit. how many grammatical errors have i made?

got called yesterday. twice! first for nego. wow, three times in a row. got called for three consecutive classes. at least im not the only one. there's a bunch of us who got called three times in the last three meetings. anyway, at least the third recitation is an improvement from the first two. it still sucked though. crap. i also got called in evidence class. well, this answered the question whether thursday was judgment day or not (and i checked that post and i said, what the? wrong grammar! i said, "i'll found out". how could i commit such a mistake? i was thinking what sentence i was trying to make and then made a mid-sentence change so that i could have the erroneous sentence? its just unforgiveable. i better edit that). so i got called in evidence and i barely talked for more than 5 minutes. i was told to sit down of course. i was only half-prepared. its hard to be fully prepared for it. but thats no excuse of course. better do something about it. and i better read what i post!

ok, bayantels connection is better. seems like its back to its usual speed. and its no longer intermittent. i hope this keeps up. are they monitoring this blog? i wasnt able to make the report last night (paranoia kicking in. wasnt able to sleep well, i remember looking at my cellphone clock and its already 4:20am!). anyway, im not feeling well. but i have to go to class. i wont make it for my succession class but i can still attend my make-up tax law class. i have a clogged nose (very clogged) and im really not feeling well. not sure if my eyes are puffy or red but they feel like it. why cant i be sick during the suspended class days? because of august? i dont know. usually, its a series of unfortunate events and not isolated unfortunate events. the sucky recits are weeks apart. the cold isnt related to it by a long shot. i mean, august usually brings successive unfortunate stuff to the point a single day is filled with bad luck (like a sequence of bad luck lurking in every corner) or a week is just the worst week of the year. well, theres still more than a week left so this might be it. the cold, the blood result (which shows that im back to the abnormal levels again which means no alcohol, no coffee, no sleepless nights, more water intake. ok, im in law school and my classes go from 1pm to at least 6pm straight, sometimes up to 730pm), the sucky recit. whats next? well, at least bayantels internet connection is better.
besides the level of unfortunate events arent really the usual unfortunate events that august used to bring. august usually brings bad luck that could drive a person mad.

my headaches. stupid blood illness. i have a clogged nose. stupid cold.

how many times do i have to call bayantel's customer service to have my internet connection fixed? its been months now. if the company is having problems, they better tell the customers now because its really irritating to have to call them from time to time. its hard to follow-up the internet connection problem reports because im not always at home and i have things to do. all i ask is that when we use the PC and use the internet service, we get what we pay for. sure the service started ok. it had problems during the time when the earthquake happened early this year. the internet service was restored weeks later. but i think starting last May, the internet connection became intermittent. it was tolerable at first, and i thought this might be some temporary thing. well it wasnt temporary and over time, it was no longer tolerable. i called so many times already and they've tried different stuff in fixing it. they've even sent two technicians. there's also fixing the connection through phone which is the usual way and i dont quite like it. they just give me instructions on what to do and monitor if it fixed the problem and call them again if the problem persists. but none of them worked, and thats why i keep calling them again and again. and now, the connection is so slow. my dial-up modem might be just a little bit faster. im not techie enough to know whats wrong thats why i call-up bayantel for help. but so far, they havent really done anything for months now. the only fault on my part is that i dont follow-up quickly thats why its taken months (sometimes it takes me a week to do the follow-up report). how can i? ive got stuff to do. and now im calling their customer service again and the line is busy. nice. so i dialled it again and again until i got tired. so dont tell me i didnt try hard enough.

ive been told before i got the DSL service that bayantel was already having company problems (serious company problems) but i decided to apply for their internet service anyway because it still seemed like a good deal. i didnt regret it at first because the internet connection was good, and the customer service was also good (so i dont know why bayantel would have company problems with this kind of service). now its not hard to believe that there might be something wrong with bayantel.

no PIL, got called to recite during nego class, which sucked a lot. dont know what the crap is wrong with me. the studying is not paying off! ive read nego, transpo, evidence and succession in advance. thats 2/3 of the my subject this semester! im reading in advance! well, reading is not really the same as studying. retention is a major factor that i have to work on. then there's retrieval which is easy if theres something to retrieve. and i wasnt called for evidence class making me the last person not yet called to recite for the dreaded evidence class. will judgment day come on thursday? ill find out on thursday.

im sick! caught the cold again. this sucks. been having headaches for hours now, especially when im trying to study. dont know how i got it. im always indoors when it rained and when i go outside, the rain stops. no one at home has a cold. although i sensed i was going to have a cold, im just a bit puzzled how i got it. i just hate it. i have a clogged nose and im not feeling well. and the classes finally resume tomorrow after almost a week of no classes due to suspensions. except for today which is due to the holiday economics law which made ninoy aquino day a monday.

getting frustrated. ive been trying to figure out a song i would like to get a copy of. its a song from the late 90s by a band. thats the problem. i dont know the name of the band and i dont know the name of the song. all i know is how it sounds like. how the hell can i search for it when all i know is how it sounds like? if i knew some of its lyrics, i could search for it on google. i also know how the video looks like. and that too doesnt help. the music video is set in a room, where the band is performing and there's a moth or butterfly (more like a moth) with them. and i think there are slow motion parts and the moth resting on the microphone. its not silverchair and not silverfish. but those are the bands that come to mind and i dont know why. the music they play is somehow close to swirl 360.

so what happened today? well, its raining and it rained most of the day. i had my blood checked this morning, also had an urinalysis as suggested by a doctor, and had my haircut. and when i went out, the rain stopped. the moment i got to the clinic where i will have my blood test and urinalysis, thats when the rain started again. whenever im indoors, it rained. i sort of wanted to walk in the rain. anyway, as suspected, my blood level isnt good again. it could be the possibility for the dizziness and mild headaches. as for my sore throat, still sore. not sure if im going to have a cold or not. this is the second day of this irritating sore throat. and this is the fourth day i havent touched my books or readings. better pick them up again and not waste all these free time. i would like to have another cup of coffee. never had one since the classes were suspended.

also watched 300 and Ghost Rider on video. its not as enjoyable as watching them in cinemas. maybe its better to watch movies on video which i havent seen in cinemas. makes sense huh? but why do we watch movies weve seen in cinemas on cable and it doesnt feel crappy? maybe not just in the mood. but i think there is something different. there was something different when i watched 50 First Dates on HBO.

all it takes is a second. a second! a second of losing electrical power and the PC shuts down and starts all over again! good thing opera and firefox have "restore last session" functions. but thats only minor stuff. that split second could damage your hard drive! actually, i think it does but you dont see it until you get several seconds of abrupt switching on and off have happened. why cant it just rain without affecting the power lines or the power itself. i think its more of the power lines or the thunder. shit. better switch the PC off. the thunder's getting louder and louder. might interrupt the power and i have to undergo that error check again

just stayed at home today. classes were suspended after all. what else could i do? just watched tv all day. im having them dizzy spells again. better have my blood checked. started getting dizzy again a few days ago and its becoming more frequent. my throat hurts too. might be a cold coming up. since the classes were suspended, ive really done nothing. three days wasted. that sucks.

this is the third day classes are suspended. im not sure if august is proving itself to be a fortunate month or not. to most people, it seems its a good thing to have these suspensions. for me, its not. just when im starting to enjoy going to school and studying, these suspensions start happening. its disrupting my study habit! what the? is it a sign i should just go back to my old ways of just not caring about my studies? because i cant study at home, im more productive studying in the library. but then again, i might be viewing the situation in a very narrow sense. these suspensions might be forcing me to like studying at home. thats one way of seeing it. anyway, all i did today, the second day classes were suspended was just watch Heroes episodes. yesterday, i watched Transformers episodes 

bayantel hasnt fixed the connection problem. its till intermittent and im getting tired of reporting it.

who would have thought that i would find suspension of classes as something depressing. i just dont like getting stuck at home. if this happened last semester, i would have found the suspension as good news. i dont know. ive changed i guess. or, i really just hate it here.

aug 13: had succession? no. just had tax law last monday. i thought i was going to be late for my succession class and it was going to be the first time i was going to be late for the subject this semester. but that didnt happen because we didnt have succession for that day and i didnt receive the text message announcing it. so i only had tax law for monday

aug 14: only had PIL and evidece. still no nego class. PIL was ok and after the evidence class, i was the only one left not called in class. so, most likely, the next person to be called with me. its not an inevitability yet that i will be called next meeting. its just highly probable.

aug 15: which is today. classes were suspended. how nice. i was going to study and head again to the mall. last monday, i ate at tokyo tokyo again and then studied at starbucks sm north. same routine for tuesday but this time, instead of starbucks, i went to some other coffee shop located at the block. i also watched wind chill on video since im stuck at home. good thing i rented a video the day before. it was nice to watch emily blunt again.

recap! another one of them entries where i trace the things i did for the week. lets do this backwards.

saturday, which is today. just went to the library to study. im glad im still able to sustain the habit of studying. not sure if its paying off but im still happy that i feel im getting something done and that im developing a good study habit.

yesterday, friday, august 10. very difficult day. it started with me going to UP to go to my 9am succession class. while waiting for the class to start, i reviewed for my negotiable instruments law midterms. when the class ended, went to shopping center to buy a brown envelope for the mind map that i was going to submit before 5pm at the office of the college secretary. also took a quick meal at kha's restaurant because i was going to do some serious studying for the next few hours. after that, went to the library to study, read the reviewer again and memorized some provisions. by 4pm, went to the law center to take the midterm exam. after the exam, went to SM north to eat some dinner. why there? had some tokyo tokyo coupons. might as well use them. and when i was heading home, the jeep i was riding was threatened by a man with a gun riding a honda civic (i think it was a civic). why? the jeep refused to let the car overtake us. so with the help of another vehicle (convoy most likely), the other vehicle blocked us and the civic ran on the jeep's side and the when the windows were down, a hand with a gun emerged and half-pointed to the jeepney driver. that was just around 830pm. it made my blood boil for a few seconds because that was uncalled for. its like some sort of abuse of power. it created a bit of a buzz for a few minutes among the passengers. anyway, after that, got home.

thursday: classes were suspended. and instead of having a break from the stressful week or using it to study for nego, i did my mindmap for PIL which was due the same day as the nego midterms. i was supposed to do it earlier but brownout occured (ok, blame the fortituous event). anyway, thats what i did the entire day, just do the mindmap

wednesday: attended my succession class and then went to SM north to study. i was accompanied by jump. we ate at cabalen with their eat all you can merienda. it was worth it, for only P106 (vat inclusive), i was able to eat more than i could possibly get from the coupons i have of tokyo tokyo. and i was so full that i didnt feel that irritating feeling of hunger until lunch time the following day. after cabalen, went to one of the coffee shops in the mall to study for nego.

tuesday: only had one class for the day: evidence. we didnt have PIL and there was no nego class for the week so we could study for the friday midterms. submitted the PIL paper earlier since there was nothing posted on the PIL blog site where we can post our papers. evidence was difficult as usual and im still not yet called to recite. it seems there's only two of us in class that hasnt been called and that worries me because my blockmate pointed out that i might get called on the difficult topics.

monday: had succession and tax. nothing out of the ordinary. after class, went to the mall to study. i went to one of the coffee shops there and read my PIL reading on which we will make a reaction paper. also went to tokyo tokyo to use my coupons.

sunday: my brother took the UPCAT. i hope he passes. spent the entire morning in UP because we didnt just drop off my brother at NIGS but we waited til he finished the exam. dont recall much what i did on sunday afternoon.

saturday: did some studying at home since UP was closed or the libraries were closed due to the UPCAT

friday: classes were suspended for the voter registration thing

also, tueday night: brownout which lasted til wednesday, i was told electricity was restored around lunch time. and its been raining non-stop for, i think, 3 consecutive days if not 4. from monday to wednesday for sure because it wasnt raining when my brother took the UPCAT and the rain was strong when we were eating at cabalen. it was raining when i looked out the window during my tax law class and i got wet when i went home tueday night.

forgot to post this. exactly a week ago, i was ambushed by koreans! well, im exaggerating. i rode a philcoa jeepney where the passengers were 80% korean. the korean guy sitting next to me started talking to me when we were near the oblation. he asked for my name, email and number. gave it of course. i wasnt really that alert since it was 830 in the morning and i got home the night before around 11pm. i wasnt in the mood to think of excuses or argue. besides i have an email address thats allocated for such a purpose, meaning, giving it to strangers. as for the cellphone number and name, i didnt think they were the type that would pester me. anyway, gave it with no questions asked. i was thinking, they might be students or something that might need a tutor and i know someone who could help them. anyway, when we reached vinzons hall, i learned they were korean christian missionaries because they started discussing Jesus and gave me a booklet about some kind of christianity. nice. its early in the morning and these koreans want to preach. anyway, when i got off malcolm hall, i never heard from them again. they probably saw my cellphone number which has the number of the Antichrist and that if they try to contact me, they might be preaching to the wrong guy

first day of august went well. second day didnt, which was yesterday. got called to recite for nego but wasnt able to answer. instant singko! that sucked. of the three subjects for the day (PIL, Nego, Evidence), i was most prepared for nego! ive read the case on which i was called to recite but well, shit happens. mental block! i dont recall a single detail about the case! it happened before but not as bad as what happened yesterday. the professor sort of helped me remember the case by giving hints but i just cant follow. felt bad of course. after studying all of it and i get a singko out of it. thats august for me. but i think this happened too last semester but like i said, i think last semester's failed recitation was better because at least i wasnt as stunned as yesterday. i think it was also my fault why i had mental block or why my mind went blank on that particular case. i was reading the wrong cases before i was called. i was refreshing the next two cases which was going to be discussed. or so i thought. thats why when i got called, my mind was too focused on the supposed next two cases that when i was called for the case, i cant easily retrieve what the case was about. not that this only happens in august but i the fact that its august, such a thing wont surprise me or bother me as much 

its august 1. nothing out of the ordinary happened. thats fortunate. but i wont be complacent. there might be a stroke of bad luck lurching around the corner. yesterday seemed worse than today, making me think that the last day of july is warming me up for what august has packed for me this year. yesterday started with me waking up around 9am. i think. had a 1pm class and havent really studied yet. ive read the assignments but ive done that long ago so all i have were a general idea floating in my head. and that is never enough in law school. organized retention is important. anyway, i was supposed to do some reviewing of the assignments but i wasnt able to do so because bayantel called to have the dsl connection fixed. i called the night before, again, complaining about the intermittent connection. the technician arrived but wasnt able to fix it because he needed time and i didnt have time since i had class. so there wont be an internet connection til they got it fixed and they will have it fixed the following day, today, which they did. anyway, went to school. first class was PIL. got called. the class i was least prepared and i happened in one of those days where i feel im very unprepared. i mean, most of the time, i go to class confident that i know something. but i dont get called for those days. i get called on the day i have a vague idea of the assignment. nice. second class was nego, then evidence. good thing i wasnt called on those subjects but compared to PIL, i was more prepared for those. anyway, headed home and when i was about to alight from the jeepney, i hit my left abdomen on the jeep's steel bar because it accelerated even before i got off. ouch. ok, they really arent bad luck compared to what happens in august which is more of a series of unfortunate events but i thought it were indications of whats heading my way. anyway, august 1 came, the internet connection is better, still checking if its really fixed. didnt get called. got home safe with no injuries whatsoever. thats something to be thankful