as long as i have limbs

or, alternatively, a running tally of this day, to amuse myself

Today's mantra: Today, I am a one-woman powerhouse. I will be a machine and I will be unstoppable.

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11:00 a.m. Meeting. It's a Friday and no one's here, as usual. Do minutes.

12:00 p.m. Lunch. With the TV off. Slow, meditative. Open newspaper, look for quotes. Open NSCB, look for anything Metro Manila-related. It hits me that I am alone today with my Friday wingmen both down with illness. (Get well soon, sibs.)

1:00 p.m. Open TV to news. Plug ipod in ear. Something read-along related on the phone. Oops the stocks are acting up. Uh-oh. Even the emergency self-boot thing isn't working. Database still showing yesterday's update despite patch. Uh-oh. Do disclosures first.

2:15 p.m. The guyitos are all right. Wait, it looks like the stocks are okay now. Waits. YES THE STOCKS ARE ALL RIGHT THE PATCH IS WORKING.

2:33 p.m. B comes in and tries the door behind me (which, of course, is locked); comes around the side to tell me to turn on the lights. He is here. I am now juggling a wonky stocks table and him. He is looking for Lawrence. I tell him Lawrence is sick. Yes that's why he wasn't in the choir practice last night. LOL this day is just beginning.

BTW -- News that Celso de los Angeles of Legacy has pleaded not guilty is unsettling me. Rifling through old stories as we speak/type/whatever.

2:46 p.m. Stocks finished. Waiting for table from PSE by 4 for cross-check. B mentions possible error in an earlier edition of today's issue. Will settle with eds when they come later. As usual: Stocks/eds always at the same time. Always.

BTW -- Ninoy docu on Storyline on ANC. That man is a wonderful speaker.

Meanwhile -- what about conking out a novel in 3 days? -- MAD SKILLZ REQUIRED YO, but ngl, if I had three days of nothing to do, I'd spend it writing. And drinking.

3:33 p.m. Refreshing PSE like crazy. Still no update. Eating granola bars to console myself. Phone call from Jea re: credit card figures. Apparently if you google credit card figures my work for SIM in 2007 comes up. Ah, notoriety.

4:10 p.m. Ed's opinion - no correction. Submitted correction from last night. On TV Mayor Lim says he did not order an "arrest"; he asked for "handcuffs". Ah okay. Still no PSE. This I want handcuffs for hmm.

4:49 p.m. DQR!!!!! *luhods*

5:02 p.m. OK naalala na nila local ko. Naloko na. Note to self: Don't forget the weather.

5:27 p.m. PSE says to disregard previous DQR sent. FUUUUUUUU---. LOL.

5:47 p.m. Whew PSE. Natapos din. Weather naman bago magkalimutan.

5:53 p.m. Okay taya ng panahon -- cloudy with rains sa taas, partly cloudy sa baba, across areas.

6:48 p.m. LOL 152 new tweets. Sorry naman nakalimutan kita Twitter.

7:01 p.m. Heating dinner. Why is it that it seems as if the foreign government learns of developments (e.g. flags coffins, etc) earlier than our government? Please, to be on top of things. Thanks. Also -- dinner heated. Girlfriend-cooked dinner is the only saving grace of this day. Thanks, Universe!

8:34 p.m. Jesus Verzosa's name has Z first before S. Ano nga ba ang pinagkaiba ng forensic pathologist at medico-legal? *scratches head* Konti na lang. Hammer time in 3..2..

8:54 p.m. Dalawang 2nd priority requests. Alin kaya dito ang 3rd priority. Bahala na. HAHA.

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