We'll be looking back on everything

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I just spent a record breaking 12 hours and 27 minutes, eating all 3 meals, in the library yesterday-- and it was even on a Sunday. It was surely quality time because I was able to finish 4 chapters of International Marketing and a bit of Korean. Sitting in front of a desk that walled my view, I was more focused than a kalesa horse. Moreover, I was free from all distractions which major source is the internet. Woohoo.

I like it how students just flock to the library all cued up to get a seat like it was for getting in a hot club on a Saturday. I enjoy being with 200 and more students in one room all with their books and notes, either for learning or display, like we were a nerd-cult. I never knew that the library could actually be a good site for people-watching. The good-looking guys were all here after all! Haha.




When I was a freshman I tagged it as my:




It was where I would usually go during breaks to kill time, and when I was just basically lonely, which I didn't mind being, really.


Then, my course is very research extensive so I found myself enjoying "library hopping". I was a frequent visitor to the Main Lib (Social Science, Filipiniana and Thesis Section), Mass Comm, Educ and Eng'g libraries. Hmmm, now I'm thinking, I'll make it my goal to visit all college  libraries. Haha... like it was when we accompanied Celeni in visiting every building's top floor then. xD

Actually, I don't think I'm a wide reader to have an affinity with this place. Although, I do love books for sure. Sometimes even unconditional because I can tolerate even the thickest and boring ones. But, it's just that I get enough pleasure from the related literature I encounter from my research and the piles of readings I get from Socio so I don't bother much on others. (So I guess, I'm missing a lot!) But hyeah, busy-busy me.

But recently, in one of my visits to the library, I was somehow inspired to spend as much time as I can  there since I'm so free and all. I'd grab all the books I can have my hands on and read like crazy until I go blind. (Okay, exag). But hyeah, that'll be good. As Clair said, they're basically obsolete now because you can just find everything on the internet. Hello, Wikipidea.
 
Yet, there's still something about those bookshelves, that old book aroma and new book smell,  those tattered pages from borrowing, weathering or bad book binding, There's also that jackpot feeling I get when I find a book on my list, when I pity over an ignored book, or when I literally try not to judge a book by its cover. Then there's the people studying, people studying and then sleeping off their chairs, and those who really just went there to sleep. Then you also have that silence most valued but always broken because it only amplifies a concert of sounds. The sound of flipping pages, pens and highlighters sliding on paper, malfunctioning fans, vibrating cellphones, whispers and finger taps.

But before I left, the library became more than a place for me, but it became a place for us.  The stairs, the leaky walkway where the sun would hurt your eyes when you pass, the wholesome-landian-ledge, the cement brick that I stepped on so I can sit on the ledge, the Nescafe vendomachine that gave us the best damn Milo, and every section of it, until the Library Science Institute library, that we were able to visit.

I remember one time when I was on my way to the library and passing through the hall I thought to myself how nice it would be to walk with someone to the library. Not just anyone, but someone... He made it happen for me.

It's a good thing to set my alarm today at 7.30 am. I was gonna greet Marlowe goodluck on his first day at internship (and it's the same one Celeni got admitted to. so, goodluck to you too dear!). I think that should be fun.  Well, at least now he's got something to do this summer. I just hope it doesn't tire him up that much. It's still the summer after all and I'm not sure how well corporate attire suits the weather there today.

The weather here today when I got up is... RAINY!


This is actually the first morning in days that  I'm up earlier than 8:00 am. My body clock needs a tune-up because I've been sleeping at 4 am for a week now. That's really stupidity and stubbornnes  on my part because I don't feel attacked with insomia at all. If mom were here, I bet she would have scolded me right now and confiscated Tonio. Besides, my eyebags are really getting big, deep and dark (that sounds seriously ugly) so I decided to sleep early, around 12mn. Yes, early.

I was also gonna do some exercise today. The dorm's gym is actually pretty cool and better than the UP gym during my PE days or that one at the UP hotel basement. They have the complete set of equipment I'd find in any gym.  Dale suggested that I do 30mins cardio and weights to get rid of my bulging tummy. But right now, I don't  have the exercise gear. Daaamn. I should have bought those matching fake Adidas sweats with gold piping. Waaaah. I can't possibly work out in my butterfly pajama's now. That should really motivate me. Especially in days like these when it's cool and rainy and I just want to jump back on my bunk and sleep.