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Monday, September 03, 2007

{the return of the headless chicken AKA the (mis)adventures of a bar ops volunteer part 1}

this past weekend (and week, actually) was one of the most tiring and stressful ones i've experienced in recent months in more ways than one. the whole week went on like a blur what with last minute barops preparations, meetings, acads, council reunion, etc '(not to mention the tiredness that stemmed from being really angry about the frat hazing incident). the entire week, all i had was junkfood and chocolate for sustenance and i slept at 3AM practically every day and got up at 8 or earlier. save for saturday morning wherein i slept at 5 and got up at 8AM of the same day to take care of last-minute HR matters and to review for my torts class that afternoon. i had class til 5PM then headed home after the food i ordered for the volunteers got delivered so that my parents could take me to sheraton. from the time i arrived up to around 7:30-8:00AM of sunday i was a headless chicken since had to check up on volunteers and help with the other operations as well as with merchandising and requests of barrister. i was happy though because i finally got to experience what helping out in the different ops (except transop, though something tells me i'll be experiencing that too in the near future.hahaha) is like since all i got to do last year was help out in the hotel and drive around the manila area for breakfast orders (talk about adventure! hehehe!). i slept from 8 to around 9.45AM and then went back to barops duty, this time with winlaw and was on duty (save for a short nap in the afternoon) til around 6:30 PM when my parents picked me up.

it was funny (though stupid, too) since i got lost while delivering lunch orders. i decided to take a pedicab and go ahead of my friends since i was in a rush and thought it would make me arrive there at a shorter time. i thought wrong. taft was jam-packed with cars so i asked the pedicab driver if copytrade (where the up law tent was in front of) was near enough to walk to. he answered in the affirmative and charged me thirty pesos (imagine, THIRTY PESOS! and to think my friends who followed also in a pedicab were only charged FIFTEEN PESOS for both of them. but then, it was a desperate time. hehe.) so anyway, i got down and started to walk. after what seemed to be forever, i realized that a)none of the surroundings seemed familiar as i remember seeing starbucks, 7-11 and mcdonalds when i dropped by to check on tentops and nightops the night before, 2)no copytrade was in site, 3)i hadn't spotted anyone from up law, and 4)the number of tents and people seemed to be dwindling the further on i walked and came to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, the up law tent was on the other side. so i crossed and was walking for quite some time when i saw that there was a barricade preventing me from going any further. SO, i had to go all the way back to where i had crossed from the other side and walk back to the point where i got off the tricycle only to see that copytrade indeed was on the other side of taft beneath the mrt station. how stupid could i be? hahaha. :D

this weekend and the days leading to is could also be described as this: a series of unfortunate events. i was perpetually stressed and haggard so i kept dropping things, losing things, forgetting things, etc. i also made the mistake of dropping my phone one time too many two days before the bar weekend and ended up having to borrow my dad's old phone just so i could remain accessible. however, since my phone broke i now have to guess everytime someone sends me a text message who it is based on the context clues. i really ought to have my phone fixed. it's just that the thought that it has to be reformatted breaks my heart as being the stupid person that i am, i didn't back up my contacts even if i have had my phone reformatted at least two times in the past. so much for learning my lesson. oh well. :( i remember talking with my blockmate, carmi, the other day and telling her that i needed a clone (or two), but if such was not possible, i'd settle for eight arms. i said that if i had eight arms, my life would be so much easier. in typical carmi fashion, she answered: "no, you'll have a hard time finding clothes with eight armholes." hahahaha! :D but seriously, i was quite happy though also sad for a number of reasons i don't quite feel like disclosing for now. but anyway, mostly happy. call me a masochist but despite the seemingly never-ending supply of stress, i like what i have been doing. uh oh, does that mean that that's my formula for happiness is: happiness = stress + more stress + headless chicken mode? hehehe! i hope not. but yeah, i'm one somewhat* happy (albeit headless) chicken/(almost) dead frog.

thank goodness that despite the countless glitches, we all survived the first weekend.

in any case, one weekend down, three more to go. woohoo!!! Congrats to everyone! :D

check out this article from today's inquirer. winlaw has a special mention. go winlaw! :D

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* i would be more than somewhat happy if not for the existence of a certain cloud. or rather, clouds. don't get me started. :(

Labels: barops, haggardness, headless chicken mode

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