Re-evaluation time. I have spent more money this week than I have for the whole month of July. And to think it all because of what's happened since July.

Last Monday I bought Eman Lacaba's "Salvaged Poems". In my opinion, anybody who's seriously trying to write should read Lacaba. Pete's also good, but I wanted to start with Eman and study how he thinks.
Price: 300 pesos

| also bought Ma'am Beni's book, "Alipato". Real darn good stuff. Tama nga si Ma'am Beni: feminists, and women writers as a whole do not write the same way men do, and reading Ma'am Beni's work right next to Lacaba proves this right away.
Price: 100 pesos.


Anyway, I got to chat with Ma'am Beni last Monday. She told me that I should read, read, read. If I read enough, I wouldn't need her as a mentor. (A subtle way of saying she can't help me unless I help myself). I did, however, make good of the time and asked her stuff I couldn't at the workshop: how prose poetry works, what are good ways of editing, etc. Not a bad price for a swell afternoon, but I wish I hadn't. I will, however, visit her again when I've written something of substance for her to see. (2 weeks from now, maybe. and she did offer to show me Mary Oliver's works too.)
Afternoon w/ Ma'am Beni: Priceless.

But anyway, on with the list.

Bought a magazine. Erm...
Price: 150 pesos.

Bought Cy's ticket to a concert on Friday evening. I can't go. So I'm buying just to help him out. Hahaha. But the price wasn't that much of a laughing matter. I think I'll try to go anyway, but it doesn't look all that good.
Price: 200 pesos.

3 lunches each worth approximately 80 pesos = 240 pesos.

a diskette worth: 17 pesos.

A ballpen at the ORP worth: 25 pesos.

A birthday card: 20 pesos.

Buti na lang my brother treated me to a cheeseburger last Monday also. (heck, now I realize it: monday was actually a fantastic day!) He said he's been borrowing money from me for a while (primarily rides home from UAAP games), so it might all add up to a burger. He did, however, end up borrowing ten pesos. Haay. Some things don't change. :p
Price: 10 pesos, and some gas. but it's worth it.

Speaking of gas, my car is running low!! Arrrgh. Good thing Mom and Dad reimburse ny gasoline expenses, but still. Bulsa ko ang nauuna, and sometimes they'll not be able to pay right away.

This morning I closed my bank account with Landbank, withdrawing all 618.33 pesos of my "emergency money". It was originally 1000 pesos, but I got a letter that I hadn't been using it for a while, and they deduct money from dormant accounts like mine. That letter I got two weeks ago. It was addressed two months ago (or so), so they took a certain amount of money from it already. Drat drat drat.

Moral of the story: don't open an account if you can't keep it running. I'm also now down to a scant 100 or so pesos. :( Must save, save, save.

Asus! Wala pa pala akong staffer's fee! next week, next week, next week...

Will stay in school 'till 7 PM though. Color-coding scheme can't let me leave early.