Dirtbag on [excerpts] mode.

I slept at my former dormitory yesterday night and I made that decision on the spur of the moment. Oh well, I got late on my 7 am class. Well, I half-blame myself since I want to finish the book I’m reading: Friction by E.R. Frank. There. I finished it in one seating, and it’s a bad habit, but I enjoyed the course of the plot and all. It’s about a twelve year-old Alexandra Crocker who in spite of being boyish (she plays soccer the way boys do) has this ‘thing’ on her teacher, Simon. Well, the “sliding feeling” she felt after Simon accidentally touched her breasts while doing their usual roughhousing fueled much of the fire that happened in the story. They have this friendship going on, Alex and Simon, but it so happened that Alex was practically experiencing puberty. But nothing really sexual happened, just some sort of frontal nudity (the lead character actually described the penis as something “thick and sloppy” as if it’s a hamburger). She accidentally noticed that thick and sloppy thing coming out of his teacher’s unzipped pants while camping on the woods.

Anyway, I don’t want to pour all the details here. I just liked the story not because of its purportedly pedophilic nature; it graphically tells us how some twelve year-old undergoes such drastic transition to puberty. I never thought that a first-person narration of a girl could still have this strong impact, the fact that it’s pure teen fiction and nothing else. I mean, it should have been so much better if the lead character’s a guy, but the way E.R. Frank wrote it on a feminine perspective was just equally effective.

The story also involves how children undergoes a certain stage of curiosity for everything. One part of the story was when Alex’s classmate “made a circle with her thumb and index finger and then slides her other index finger in and out of it“, definitely a simpler way of telling sex. It was teen-ish, not to mention childish at the same time, but we can’t just let it drop until they finally learn how to do it without parental guidance or something.

Oh well. I’ll attach some boring daily details in this post:

• I don’t like groupworks that much. As much as possible, I’d like to do certain stuff by myself. Or maybe I’m just starting to hate groupworks since my groupmates are either delinquent or inattentive. I’m trying to study hard here, you know.

• I’m a bit mad about Dad to the point that I’m staying here in the dormitory with a couple of friends until Saturday night, and I’ll go home around Sunday in the morning. This is my kind of revolting, but it’s just a phase anyway. I’m just trying to feel my Dad’s boiling point.

• Oh, my sister bought me a FlickrPro account last Wednesday. I’m such a spoiled brat, but hey, twenty-five dollars a year isn’t really bad - it’s like two Shroom burgers of Shake Shack at Madison Square Park. Two shroom burgers that will last for a year, dude. Umm, right.

• If my grades (or any other circumstances) wouldn’t allow me to shift to Development Communication next semester, I’d probably file a leave of absence. Seriously, studying a course you don’t really like is nothing but trash. But of course I’ll give the authorities (Mom, Dad, my sisters and everyone else) a buzz about it. I guess it won’t hurt that much.

• I ate at McDonald’s a while ago. This is a big deal since I hate fastfood chains A LAWT (I love pricey restaurants, though). We did a group work there after telling my groupmates that HEY I’M HAVING THIS AUSTERITY PROGRAM SO LET’S JUST GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE.

• After twenty minutes, though, I ordered a one-piece chicken and their basic burger (otherwise known as Burger McDo). Hands down, I’m just really hungry. (110 pesos, my foot. I could suffocate myself to death while filling my tummy with two cups of rice, a side dish and a main dish for 50 pesos with unlimited servings of water for chrissake. This is basic economics, dude).

• FYI: The post title came from E.R Frank’s book (abovementioned).

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