(The title comes from J.D. Salinger’s Seymour, An Introduction. This can also be titled as: What I Talk About When I Talk About Boredom.)
I drank from Wednesday to Sunday Monday and my liver felt groggy after all the hullabaloo and the debts I had to make at Greenbelt last Thursday night just because of their overpriced tequila shots and the leading fact that we didn’t drink in a bar (we drank in this restaurant at Greenbelt 3, and if I’m not mistaken it’s Mr. Rockefeller). In the first place I was wondering why we had to go all the way to Greenbelt just to get our tequila shots (a friend proposed it “for a change” of environment). Plus that dinner at TGI Fridays and at Bizu! My fucking god, why do I have to go there when I lack money.
I suppose this post doesn’t make me an alcoholic. I think alcoholics have their craving times and sentiments; in my case it was pure teenage whim, and it’s summertime anyway. (I do have addiction to something I wouldn’t like to spill.)
Then last night I had to suffer a bout of impacho after eating my third dinner, though at first I took it as food poisoning, because of the accompanying wave of nausea which I felt for the first time (because I always suffer from impacho, especially in those Cuban restaurants in Hoboken). So I groped all the way to the attic and asked the maid to call Dad and ask for some tablet and shit. Though I half-wished I was poisoned since I miss the feeling of being hospitalized, at some point it could be life-threatening (thanks to that news Dad and I have heard about food poisoning in pochero because they made a mistake with the salt and a chemical I vaguely remember as something-nitrate) and the maid was telling me I’m paying for my gluttonous habits.
I say, I don’t care if I’m obese. Heck, there’s nothing wrong with being obese. But I’m not, young sir. I’m definitely not.
My list of books I have read this 2010 swelled from 3 to 13 books in two weeks. Boredom talks this way. Imagine, The Grapes of Wrath in three fucking days! I mean, fine, I take pride on finishing this bitch (I tried reading it last 2008 but gave it up due to its epic [form- and language-wise] characteristics; for me, it’s like reading Biag ni Lam-Ang, though Steinbeck never disappoints me) but it is one of the many sole tickets to be named a bum, and that hurts. (I was eyeing on Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost, all 1300+ pages of it, but decided not to for the fear of dying in between those pages.)
I haven’t watched any movie this summer except for Valentine’s Day and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (which is awesome). My laptop was busted (again) and I’m still bargaining with my Mom about a new laptop (hopefully my tactics back then would work, but considering the incident when she caught me smoking on Facebook via my sister’s paparazzi powers, I’m about to consider this mission as futile as licking my elbows with my tongue).
Last Sunday I was so bored I exterminated a colony of ants creeping up on our walls. (I’ve been doing this every vacation.) Who would like those red ants when they usually cling on towels and bite my balls and shit when I’m inside an passenger FX? Much to my delight I caught their queen ant (how could I know it’s the queen ant? Simple: worker and soldier ants carry it and she’s the biggest of them all) and crushed her belly (?) until she was begging for help, and I hope I could publish the picture here. She was already dead when I woke up this morning.
So right now I overeat, exterminate colonies of ants and wolf down books. I’m also doing my creative thesis (a collection of short stories!) as early as now; my adviser is cooperative enough to initiate a “regimen of reading and writing exercises” this summer, and a bum loves deadlines.
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Name/Nick/Alias/Whatever Name: Gyk
Question?: What’s your biggest fear?
Answer: Cockroaches. Really. Crawling and flying. I don’t know why; I used to hold them by their antennas when I was a kid.
Name/Nick/Alias/Whatever Name:
Question?: You straight?
Answer: Yes, I am! Though there’s this one friend–just one, she’s a lesbian–who wants me to be gay, because a gay for her is a turn-on. I know, what the fuck.
Name/Nick/Alias/Whatever Name: Kandi
Question?: What’s your favorite color?
Answer: Black, white and gray is arguably a color, so they’re not in the choices. I’d say blue, like sunset blue or beach blue, or surfer blue. Yeah. :) I love the water and shit, y’know.
Name/Nick/Alias/Whatever Name: M
Question?: Hello Queveen. I mess you. xoxo.
Answer: Mariano? Ikaw ba yan? :) TARA INOM!
Name/Nick/Alias/Whatever Name: M
Question?: Classmate mo pala si Kate sa isang subject. Nakita ko rin pala yung video mo na kumakanta ng HSM song! Niceeeee! Hahaha! Wolo lang =)
Answer: M who? Anyway, are you talking about Kate Angeles? Yessir, we are classmates. :) Oh please that HSM song thing I did–forget about it. It’s one of my most humiliating experiences here in UPLB. Ever!!!
Want to ask more questions, the Formspring link’s on the sidebar.
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I’ve posted a Formspring link in the sidebar for those of you who’ve been wanting to ask questions (or not really a question). I’ll answer them under the category Formspring answers. It would be nice to have this forum-like thing going on in my blog, so we guys can be friends! Heh.
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Question from ***: Kevin! How are you? It’s been agesssssss. [We found each other! thanks for following me. :P Please keep this a secret.] I still lurk around menthol-guy.com. Magaling ka pa din magsulat. Mas gumaling ka pa nga. Congratulations sa nomination sa PBA, I hope you’ll win.
WELL. Hey, I didn’t post your name here anyway so your identity’s still a secret. Anyway, thanks for the boost! And yeah, it was an honor to be nominated even if I didn’t win (slimmest chance in the world, really). Thanks for STILL reading!
Question from Alohapenny: LOL so everyone has formspring, apparently. What have people asked you so far? (There now we have last.fm, blogs and formspring to communicate) mihihi Sigur Ros! Oh oh oh! Have you tried listening to 65daysofstatic? You should! =)
I’ve listened to their album Escape To New York or something and they’re good. They’re the first post-rock band I’ve listened (are they post-rock?). Thanks for the suggestion! :D
Question from Oli: Have you got a girlfriend?
Yes.
Question from Ica: Hoy, Kevin Bautista! Follow me! sundaysideup :)
Followed!
Question from fromtheguywhotoldyoutoloveyourownlanguagemorebackthen: I’ve stumbled upon you for the 3rd time now. (First was your utakgago days, second was nincompoop… you’re so much better now. I wish we get to meet someday. :) (I love the ctrl+alt+delete entry; I’ve gone through the same thing) MY QUESTION: Favorite book? Only one. [Not sure how ill be able to get the answer though.]
WOW I couldn’t remember you anymore but please, tell me who you are. Anyway, it’s Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Hands down. I’m emo that way. I’m a Salinger fan, too! And you still remember my nincompoop blog? Wow. That was four years ago, man. Thanks for reading! We really should meet someday, whoever you are.
Question from Skron: What is Formspring?
Formspring is a website for creating forms such as question forms, surveys, among others. Check it out here! :)
More questions? I hope I could post something decent tomorrow. :D Cheers!
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