mentally sick monday

more about my sleeping predicament

so i finally got more than 4 hours of sleep for the day. i think i got 6 or 7 hours and i wanted more. not the kind of want that’s on my mind – my body wanted it. meaning i’m in bed after 7 hours and my eyes were still sleepy. unlike previous days where i was making my eyes feel sleepy. so this was different. it was so different that i was pondering about calling in sick to sleep more.

i didn’t call in sick. i was being professional. yeah, my new thing is to be professional and be a role model to my team because i’m already one of the senior guys and i wanted to be an example to them. i started by going to work real early like one of those basketball players who goes to work the earliest and also the last one to leave – something like that.

writing for a magazine

so last week i was contacted by this guy who was like an editor for a local magazine. i submitted an article to them about a year ago and he told me that they were going to publish it and they are scheduling me for a headshot. i thought it was cool because i like writing even though i’m not very good at it.

writing is in my genes to tell you the truth. my grand daddy was a well known novelist in the philippines. you can’t find him online or whatever but you can try googleing “d.g. dumaraos”. it’s really cool. his work was the screenplay for the very first rated r movie in manila. that feat is not very appealing but i think it’s nice to be the first of something. i think i’m the first person to talk to himself on his own blog.

anyway, i told my dad that i was getting published and he nodded in approval. that’s how he is, he never tells you how a great job you did but he nods so i felt proud of myself because i made my dad nod. yes, we’re weird. then he asked me if i wanted to try out with one of their publications, he said he’d pass my work to his boss who was the president of their company or something. i’m really hesitant about it because i’ve read the magazine’s writers and they’re all great. i think joey dizon and jason caballa are great writers and to help with their writing, they have music experience and know-how which i think is essential in their work. me – i can’t even finish writing a whole song.

one time when i was trying to sleep. what kept me from getting asleep was thinking of the writing gig. i was thinking of how to sweep their feet over to liking me. but that was it, i ended up just thinking. classic charles.

thursday is coming to town

my girlfriend told me about 2 weeks ago that she read somewhere that thursday was coming to play here. i was really pessimistic about it because i went to thursday’s website and their myspace page but there was no listing there. then i stumbled upon pulpcommunity.com and saw their big poster there, but i was still gloomy about it. the only time that i felt sure that it was going to happen was when i saw their facebook events page.

i guess facebook is more credible to me than their own website. lol.