stream of unconciousness

sigh, 3 days till christmas vacation.  it feels a lot like the last three days of exams though.  the classes i have to go to are the ones i’m up for recitation in, so this is hardly the time for me to sit back and wait for time to do its thing. 

times like these i miss the dorm.  i particularly miss having my friends around, people who make an ART out of passing time.  whether it’s playing  2 on 2 basketball with the green plastic trashcans in our rooms; playing cards with the day’s loose change; or just lying in bed and staring at the ceiling asking eachother deep, life-changing questions like: "what if you were the last two people on earth and the survival of the species dependend on it…"

sigh, off the top of my head, 2 things that i’ll always miss about the dorm.

1.  brownouts - want to learn cuss words in different dialects?  go to cervini 2 seconds after the power goes out.  after recovery though, and accepting the fact that your going to have to retype your unsaved philo paper when the generator kicks in, you feel a pleasant vibe going around.  it’s that calm feeling you get when everybody else is not doing anything.  with exception to the die-hard nerds who light a candle and continue studying, the rest of the dorm unite. whether it’s the yelling out of repressed feelings of love/lust in the direction of eliazo, or the giving of a "bading si _____" shoutout in the direction of the quad, or the sitting around in the hallway, singing along with the guy playing the guitar in the floor below you, one can’t help but feel connected to everybody else.

2.  days when classes are cancelled - imagine: dormers staying up all night on a school night, as hyper gerbils on x.  no it’s not the coke, it’s not the red bull…it’s ironically, the rain outside.  the dormerest of dormers have developed a third … ear, if you will, for weather that has the potential to suspend classes.  the party usually starts at around 3 am when it is STILL raining from earlier that evening.  happy faces pop into rooms with lights still on and remind people of how many hours its been raining non-stop.  receiving the happy faces are the even happier faces saying "we know!", after a goofy ‘i’m so happy i want to dance’ dance, it’s on to the next room for our selfless weather men…

at 5:30 am everything is silent, as everybody is listening to the radio…finally, the announcement is made, it is then translated, and echoed through the halls of cervini: "walay klase baiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!"… and what does everybody do to celebrate after?   sleep until 5 pm. 

sigh, if only college could’ve lasted longer…

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