The Ego Episodes

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Saturday, Mar. 01, 2003

That Incident of Utter Shame and Stupidity

You read my diary entries and you think, "Now here's a crazy girl!". I can imagine heads nodding in full agreement but NOTHING could make me believe that. I'm not crazy, y'hear? Not! Crazy! Bwaha! Haha! Ahahahahaha!

Okay, that was me overreacting. Yet another attempt at humour. And then this thing happened...

Oh, but I can't. It's too embarrassing. Unforeseen consequences could arise from my faux pas. My parents might disown me. Or my friends. Or anyone who has ever talked to me. Even you, imagined reader. Aack! This is too much. Too much introduction for something that I'm going to write about anyway. Just for the record.

After a rare 7-hour sleep, I heard my roommate, Djoux, talking to someone on the phone. I heard my name every now and then and one could only speculate on the gossips (re: Me) currently being spread. (On second thought, it's so unlikely because there's not a speck of gossip-material on me that could trigger a spark of human interest. It's like, when Gossip Fairy was about one day, sprinkling gossip-dust into every person, she left me out. And rightly so.) Blocking off insistent sunlight with my pillow, I fell asleep for about an hour more. I woke up at 10 am to avert possible metamorphosis to a pig. Since Djoux practically did not sleep last night finishing a paper, I proceeded to do my morning rituals in silence.

The lecture notes I'd been reading called for intense focus that after I finished reading it, I decided to open a novel. I was lost in the novel when at about 3 pm, Amras 2 (different from CEM Amras) came to my room to watch Gilmore Girls. I told him that Djoux is still sleeping so he should use headphones. After 3 episodes and 150 pages, Djoux was still sleeping. Noiselessly. For more than 12 hours! Wow. All covered up in her blanket, she'd look good in a poster with slogan, "Sooo Tired. Don't. Dare. Disturb."

At 5 something pm, Monica (another GG lover) came to my room.

Me: [whisper] Tulog si Djoux...(Djoux is asleep)[/whisper]

Monica: Eh! Kala ko may shooting sila ngayon? (I thought they have a shooting today?)

Me: (stares at Djoux's bed then to Monica, then back to bed, then to Monica) Oo nga no...(Right..)(slowly approaches Djoux's bed and peaks under the covers) Hmmm. Oo nga. It's just her bolster! (turns red from head to toe)

Monica: Hehee! Ngayon mo lang nalaman na di pala yan si Djoux? Haha! May pa-whisper whisper pa tayo! Hahaha! (It's only now that you know it's not Djoux sleeping?!? Haha! And to think we were whispering!)

Me: Aheheh..heh. (wishes for floor to open up and swallow me whole)

When Djoux heard what happened, she doubled over in laughter. "Hahahah! Ang funneee!!! (So funneeeee!!!)Wait till the others hear about this!" she managed to say in between laughs. Later, when jussy and JJLo visited our room and heard about That Incident of Utter Shame and Stupidity, JJLo commented in disbelief, "Ang stupid mo talaga!" Alright. Point taken. But next time? Keep it to yourself. Okay? In my defense, I was engrossed in my reading and...and...bolster covered in blanket looked so much like my roommie covered in blanket. Really! H-eey! Where are you going? It's true! I'm not crazeeeeeee!!!

Oookay...no more coffee for me.

Seriously though, my People Skills suck to the point of non-existence. Is there a camp for people like me? No? Well, there should be one! At least on How to Distinguish Sleeping Person from Lying Bolster.