"I am wrecked. I am overblown...

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... I'm also fed up with the common cold."

I find it something of a miracle that I'm in Cagayan de Oro after my more than memorable stay in Manila. Every step towards the airport there and every step I've lately been taking around the city has given me more surreal moments than otherwise.

In non-poetic terms, I'm getting back into the "student mode" more slowly than others. Or maybe that's how I perceive it to be?

In either case, I always feel this sort of surrealism whenever a vacation is done. It's not so much depression, as it is just feeling as though nothing is actually real - what I do, whether I'm walking to school or studying, feels as though someone else is doing it. I'm just watching from the sidelines.

I'm slowly getting back into the "zone". Slowly. I'll get back on my feet soon enough so as not to get my life screwed over by my lackadaisical methods.

A little ditty for your minds to chew on:

The future may find me out
to be an impostor within and without.
Like an empty bottle used and abused -
thrown away, out of sight, out of my life
and point of view.
You said you knew this from the start -
where's your heart?
Don't you know the future will pick and
tear me apart?
The future freaks me out.
~~~~~~~

Cheers!

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