Hungry and edgy

I sneaked off the department to make a copy of Italo Calvino's "The Castle of Crossed Destinies" for my ENG 4 class. Much to my relief - and moreso the entire class - Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" will be bypassed and so the chronology of our reading list (Virgil's "The Aeneid" and Dante's "Inferno") suddernly made a leap from the 14th c. to the 20th c. Cool. I think the whole class, especially my 'more alive' students, got the hint that I'm itching to get to the Calvino portion of the semester.

Am checking my e-mail right now (despite the fact that I might, once again, keel over and have hunger seizures) because early Friday morning, I'm off to Donsol (also known for its butanding sightings) with Durga, her husband, family and friends. I look forward to mid-sem getaways, relishing the thought that while the rest of the work force are just too happy to call it a week, I find myself at the beach with good company. Last semester, me and T. hied (fuck the 'h' button of this keyboard, it's not working!) off to Boracay during the long August 21 weekend, with absolutely no hotel reservations, no clue what to do the precious three days that we'll be there. We only had one clue: to fry under the sun and be lazy, which is the antithesis of the typical Boracay itinerary of first-timers.

Am trying to fit later this evening: a) long-overdue dinner at Palaisdaan sa Bay with the office peeps; b) watch "Tarugo 2" because I was accosted by one of the show's writers at the school building to go see it. I will try. Really.

Calling the attention of catukayo: please e-mail me the picture you took of me. Too bad the batteries of your cam conked out just as we got a better idea of what my pose should be.

Person of the week: Roland Barthes, especially "The Empire of Signs." Got to thinking about it especially since ruby soho borrowed my copy and got to take a good look at Bartes' semiotic reading of the city of Tokyo. Which was inspired in the first place by Calvino's "Le citta invisibili," recently borrowed by bopis. Put two and two together and...

Song/artist of the week: "Far Behind" by Candlebox and "Linger" by the Cranberries. Because they evoke the good ol early 90s, a really magical time for alt-rock music and the heydays of local FM station LA 105.9. Think Pavement, The Youth, Weezer. Haaay.