I'm going slightly mad

Blurgh, blurgh, blurgh.

So, I miss blogging. Well, writing in general really. There's the writing-for-news-and-oh-goodness-it's-two-minute-to-the-deadline-rush, the pomp and circumstance and delightful prissiness (YOU NERD) in the top-scoring paper, and there's the single-minded obsession when it comes to long, painstakingly-crafted, unfinished novels I've worked so hard to set up.

But, there's also blogging, and the relief there used to be in having a captive audience to hear me whine. Alas, the captive audience isn't so captive at all. I always find, inevitably, that I grouse about the same old things, without the benefit of a thin veneer of wit to charm strangers, and because there are family and friends reading I end up second-guessing what I'll post in the blog-cum-soapbox.

So I end up silent.

I've given up "Internets Fame" a long time ago, as I have no stamina, braggadocio, biting sarcasm suitably broad enough to appeal to the gamut of Netizens. Hell, my day-to-day lingo is weird enough.

Give me a straight man who can carry a conversation using the vernacular, swardspeak, English, pop culture, geek culture, and the occasional pretentious literary/film quote, without making me want to punt him off the side of a cliff, and I'll jump him.

For serious.

Horror, Again.

Evidently, I am STILL obsessed with zombies.

More specifically, I am obsessed with horror movies. That is to say, my chances of survival should I find myself in one.

(I blame thesis, and impending law school. Always handy to blame).

Take your average horror movie (depending on the genre), and take my odds:

1. Virgin.
If the monster is Japanese and has anything RESEMBLING tentacles, I'm F'd (Literally. Horribly. Agonizingly). If it involves psychopathic serial killers/slashers, there's a good chance I'm saved (or at least, not the first one to die). If I star in a mawkish, teenage vampire drama, before I can say OMG-he-SPARKLES...yeah. I'd rather shoot myself.

2. "Rich" City girl.
No doubt, I'd be offed in the woods in a second. Dude, I don't even know how to BIKE.

3. Slightly Asthmatic.
The zombies may outrun me.

4. Erstwhile fencer.
Then again, my "useless" sport should prove to be somewhat useful if there happens to be a shiny, pointy, holy-water anointed thing lying around somewhere, and in a fatal lunge, I end up skewering the demon-prince. Er. RIGHT.

5. Journalism major.
This can go two ways. Either I provide key clues as the plot rolls along (thanks to nifty research), or I'm the idiot who unleashes the unspeakable evil in the first place. Judging by my track record...I go for the latter.

6. Catholic.
Operates chiefly like the "virgin" characteristic.

and last but not the least,
7. Filipino.
Filipino=Asian.
Asian=ethic minority.
Ethic minority=NEVER SURVIVES IN A HORROR FILM.
Yep. I'm screwed.

Brains, brains, brains...

'Twas fairly freaking odd.

Three weeks ago, when it finally sunk into my head that Holy Cow, it's vacation!, I resolved to watch "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse", as I had been wanting to for the past few years. And so I did. Followed by "28 Weeks Later." And an extremely disappointing "I Am Legend." And then I would turn on the telly at random odd moments, wherein movies like "Land of the Dead" and "Evil Dead: Army of the Undead," and "Resident Evil 3: Extinction" and "Doom" would grin their rotting yellow teeth at me.

Oh, and "Step Up 2." For some reason.

This must be a sign. I have got to find the nearest supermarket to whole up in.

Alias Clark Kent, sans the briefs

      It's rather weird that all I could think about, even with my finals, is the question,

Gee whiz, if I was part of a secret crime-fighting league as the obligatory female superhero, and a media person/student at the same time, what would I do if I got discovered?

      And then I'd concoct elaborate scenarios, beginning with my resignation as journalist to some local paper (since heaven forbid I do anything unethical)to sanguinely batting back questions with Conan O'Brien.
      Something tells me I need to get out more.