Tag: nocturnal

Behold, my Favorite Office Supplies

Rhiza9 Comments

Hi, I’m responding to this mini contest by Mariel not to win a Sharpie — because I want ALL OF THEM and Mariel only gives away one per person and it looks like I’ve already missed the cut anyway. I’m responding because I want to get her attention so she can answer my question: where did you buy all those Sharpies? :)

I looked around Office Warehouse and National Bookstore and did not find any. :-s

Post Its | Photo by Pam Pastor*Photo by Pam Pastor

Anyway, to answer Mariel’s question, mine is post its. These are my most favorite office supplies, tied with Pilot G-techs. I’d die without these two. I used to fill my journal with post its, which is stupid, I know, I mean, why would you paste post-its on your journal when you can write directly on its pages anyway, right? I guess I really just like putting colors together. I’d collect them, enough to last me a lifetime, just because I like looking at them stacked up on my desk or arranged into a collage in my notebook.

I think I’ve gotten over that phase already, so now, I just mostly like how I can use them for practically anything! Grocery lists, to-do lists, love notes, gift tags, reminders, quotable quotes, recipes, bookmarks, etc. They’re something I’d like to have in my pocket or in my purse everywhere I go, I mean, you’ll never know when you’ll need something to get married with, right? (Yes, I still haven’t recovered from Meredith and Derek’s post-it wedding, deal with it.) Also, I think post its are really photogenic. :)

On a different note, this is my third post in, more or less, 24 hours. I wonder if I’m ready for a 30-day blog challenge too, like her. *thinks really hard*

Loving and Hating this Nocturnal Bodyclock, What’s Wrong with Me

Rhiza5 Comments

I never learn. I’ve lost track of the number of times I made a mental note about not sleeping during the early hours of the evening, so I won’t wake up in the middle of the night restless.

Crazy things happen to me during these ungodly hours, when everyone in my side of the planet has already signed off for the day. Crazy, impulsive things.

Exhibit A: Two months ago, I jumped into the Project 365 bandwagon, impulsively, at 4:00 in the morning, thinking I could actually last an entire year. I quit, 60 photographs later.

Exhibit B: I left an old domain name and bought chasingdreams.net, just a few hours before the break of day. Now, I have 2 inactive blogs which I’m not sure what to do with anymore.

Exhibit C: I thought of painting my walls purple, at 3:00 AM on a Monday, and then posted a blog about how I want my room to look like Bella’s.

Exhibit D: Realizing that there’s no way I could paint my walls purple, and overhauling my room will need more time and planning than I imagined, I thought of modifying this blog’s color scheme instead, just because I had to see purple-and-blue on something that I own. Started modifying the template at 2:00AM, ended at 5:00AM.

Exhibit E: I conceptualized two new blog projects with Xai (to be launched soon, hopefully), the result of a series of after-midnight brainstorming/chat sessions between two sanguines. You see, that’s the sickness of sanguine people like ourselves — brilliant ideas, lacking in follow-through. But at least I wasn’t alone this time, right.

Oh, and now I’m thinking about doing the 30-Day Blog Challenge too — like her. (Ahh, good luck with that Riz).

I know it’s bad for my health, this nocturnal schedule I’ve developed for myself. But can I help it if inspiration pours in at these late hours, and it’s the time I feel on fire the most? Maybe because it’s quiet and nobody’s buzzing on YM or Skype every now and then. Plus, SkyCable’s connection is fastest at these hours.

So far, none of these crazy impulsive things I sacrificed sleep over has developed into something grand yet, but who knows, one of these days, they just might.

Then maybe I could actually say with conviction that nocturnality is good.