Random, random

Yesterday was pretty miserable for me. The good news was it had nothing to do with Valentine’s. The bad news? It had to do with everything else. It was one of those days when everything went wrong.

I walked toward the bus stop and marveled at the silence in my head. My phone had died and therefore I had no music. I let an older lady get on the bus before me and she got the last seat. Small things like that can be irritating.

While waiting in line for something, a guy about a head shorter than I am cut in line. I swallowed the fury that leapt into my throat and threatened to make my mouth rush into a barrage of big words. At times like that, one should remember two things: a. knowing you are perfectly capable of beating somebody into a mass of pus doesn’t mean you should; and b. your big words are bound to be lost on idiots, so don’t bother.

Ever feel completely tired of something you otherwise like? I sometimes feel like that about work and writing in general. Let’s say you absolutely love sinigang (the soup, Mabs). You eat it for a straight week, breakfast, lunch and dinner. At the end of the week, you may find that the sinigang has left a bad taste in your mouth. It has never done that before and you never guessed it would. Many people have asked if I ever get tired of writing. I usually answer, Do you ever get tired of what you do? The usual answer is in the affirmative, so yeah. I guess this happens to everybody once in a while.

It’s quite possible to know where each and every body is buried in an office. Quite possible to know who killed whom and with what, who performed each autopsy, who dug the grave, who ordered the gravestone, and who wrote the epitaph.

So anyway, Natanga Lang: A Love Story has been unleashed unto the world. Rem’s Memory Gap Special, Rica’s Fill in the Blanks, and my Alamat ng Misery Day (written with Lei Velasco) are up.

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