the last 24 hours really sucked. 24 hours ago, more or less (around midnight or close to midnight), i was starting to study for my wednesday classes. after finishing 3 pages of a pile of cases im supposed to read, the lights went out. why? power outage! and my PC was running! ok, that would just worsen my PCs hard drive. so, i started to wait for the power to kick back in. about an hour later, i learned from my uncle (he called meralco minutes after the power went out) the power outage was due to a scheduled maintenance or repair being conducted by the electric company. how come we didnt know about it? apparently, we dont know where they announce it. well, since it was scheduled, they also knew when the power will be back, and well, they said it will be back by 6am. ok, that's a lot of time lost for me to study (yeah right...actually i was really in the mood to study that night...so was it a sign from God that i shouldnt study?...no, it was not) and it also meant a sleepless night because, well, even if its supposed to be the rainy season, its still soooo hot!
anywany, electricity was back by 6am (on my cellphone clock, i was four minutes behind, so when i checked the time, it was 5:56am). since i barely slept, i decided to take a two hour sleep. then, a few minutes before my two hour sleep ended, jason called, asking me to print a PIL assigned article. no problem, if its important, i dont mind. so i switched on the PC after hanging up. and since the PC was running when the power went out, it had to do its scan disk to check the hard drive for errors. and since i knew it was going to take some time, i decided to take a quick nap while waiting. and since i didnt have much sleep, the quick nap turned into another two hour sleep. good thing my mother asked why im still sleeping. thats when i realized that ive lost more time...again. so, i got out of bed, printed the article which was 57 pages long. minutes later, the printer for some reason stopped printing after around 20 pages. thats the first time it did that. it just switched itself off for no reason at all. i had no idea what was wrong with it. so for a few minutes, i tried figuring out what was wrong with it. i could use the other printer, since we have two printers, but unfortunately, i was out of black ink. and it doesnt print in black with its colored ink. anyway, while trying to figure out, i noticed the pages i printed were 20 pages of footnotes! crap! so i had to check the article and found out that it was only 25 pages long without the footnotes! ok, that was stupid. and it was a good thing the printer had its weird malfunction or i would have wasted ink on the damn footnotes! when i got the printer working again, printed the article and off i went...to school. thats one obstacle down, a few more to go.
my class, i thought was at 5pm. as usual, i was wrong, it was at 4! i was in malcolm hall, law library, by 1230, with a pile of cases (about more than an inch of readings, i think). how the crap am i supposed to finish all of it by 4pm? well, i cant, so i had to read it quickly and finish as many as i could, without really absorbing what im reading. what's the point of doing that, right? well, i do it hoping that i might pick up something along the way (its like the more the better, quantity over quality). i did pick up things along the way but it wasnt enough to save my ass on my recitation for my second class (wasnt called to recite on my first class). so i was called , and was asked "what's the importance of making a distinction between a public utility and a non-public utility?" i dont even know what a public utility means! i havent read a single codal provision, all i read were the cases. that sucked. so, i had a problem putting into words what i think the reason a distinction should be made because it was like trying to define a public utility and a non-piublic utility based from how i personally know it. which of course is not the correct answer because it must have its basis, or at least emanating, from codal provisions. so i looked like an idiot, again, for the nth time. good thing im already used to looking like an idiot, and i dont mind because i am an idiot (like that adam sandler line from billy madison: "Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out. ") . anyway, while i was doing this blog, my clothes rack behind my door where i hang my pants just broke. nice. cant fix it tonight. what a way to end the day. and this is just an average day. not an everyday thing but it happens very often. actually this day is considered good compared to days that fall under august, my worst month of the year, where nothing goes right no matter what, where every turn has an unpleasant surprise.
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