Ten Indicators

…of a sleep-deprived vampire student:

1. You open the fridge, try to dig into your brain why you did so. Closed it. Returned to your desk, and then remembered that what you wanted to do is to return throw pillows to where those are stocked (definitely not inside the fridge);
2. You were at the 23rd floor of a building in Ortigas when the earthquake last Sunday night happened, and you were completely ignorant of it;
3. You miss your bed with the ‘cats are my bestfriends‘ and ‘have a fish, have a friend‘ bed sheet cover, with many, many, many, many, many faces of cats;
4. You live totally without music. You don’t charge your mp3 for one week since you don’t use it often, anyway (you don’t even update the playlist);
5. You completely alienated yourself with the outside world (that is, cut off all communication lines by not replying to emails and text messages that are not acad- or work-related);
6. You speak a different language from those people around you;
7. You almost forgot your brother’s birthday;
8. News such as oil price and fare increase, typhoons, earthquakes, pacquaio fight, and the like reach you when everybody else has heard of it;
9. Given the chance, your body simply refuses to sleep, having enveloped tiredness into its system and fearing of changing its clock; and
10. You have updated the term ’sleep’ in your vocabulary and now referred to it as a luxurious activity one involves in doing.

(Written July 11, Multiply)