Tag-ulan na at di pa rin ako nakakalakwatsa.

So I sat down yesterday and ploughed through the class paperwork. It seems like I put in too many girly texts in class, and none of the macho ones. Oh I have Joaquin and Villa and Murakami and them old (read: canonical) and new poets, but almost nobody said that they liked poetry, even with the fun ones I threw in. And almost everyone hated Villa's invisible poems. As one kid put it: There is no text, even if you insist that there is. Really. Why is that?

But they liked the stories. The hands down winners are Skin Art, White Boy, Portents and 100% Perfect Girl. They liked that last one the best, kasi daw lighter than everything we've taken up, tapos it's by a guy pero it's mushy. Same reaction with Trip to Tagaytay. They liked that one kasi may pictures, a guy wrote it, pero mushy. What is it with mushy guys? Saka bakit daw Hyacynth ang pangalan nung girl sa story, sabi ko kung pangalanan kaya kayong Ilang-Ilang, ano ang mas gugustuhin mo? Shyempre Hyacynth na lang di ba? Hehehe.

Saka they almost nobody said they liked Fahrenheit 451. I suppose I won't be doing SF in the next few terms a lot. But damn it, I don't have a lit class next sem. I'll be drowning in term papers and grammar and peelingera writers. Give me back my Eng11. Promise wala na SF, saka lalagyan ko ng mas maraming bata-batang lalaking fictionists.

Habol sa tally-ing pang-50 books: Book # x Trip to Tagaytay, Book # y Fahrenheit 451. Puwede naman ang re-readings di ba? Sorry wala pang number pero tinatamad na kasi akong maghalukay kung pang-ilan na ba talaga yan. Update ko na lang next time I blog.

Wala ba tayong puwedeng puntahan later this week? Nababagot na ako.