fold the paper and spread the ink

had round two of the inkblot dinners tonight, a sudden new tradition brought about by having two other playful classmates in our inkblots class, and how 6-9 pm classes can make you so hungry you want to eat the grassy lawn.

there is of course, the ever-present vendo machine with its grand array of harmful sweets, chips and sodas. nevermind health reasons, that machine has got its moods swinging wildly from one day to the next. bad-vendo days just eat up your bills and coins, giving you nothing in return: no signs of life, no hope, no calories, nothing even resembling an apology. no wait, just the other day, it gave me a lukewarm soda for my twenty-peso bill. well, thanks.

magaan ang loob ko kay fr., and probably much to his consternation, he is the ever-constant target of my teasing/tuksohan, from greeting him, "oh it's the naughty priest", in front of demure classmates; to an endless stream of tikal, in our other shared language, Hiligaynon. Fr. and I also talk in Filipino, and English, you know. hehe. basta, i like him. plus, we were born in the same year, which is rare, in graduate school where people look aghast every time i tell them i'm all of 35. hahaha, maybe they didn't realize, that really, really, people really live that long. hehe! well, we do! we did! and it's been wonderful.

so anyway, last week, i told h and fr. i'd feed them dinner for having done the deed a month ago, you know, passed the comprehensives. fr. was sooo willing to enjoy the treat, saying how much he believed in me because even if i hadn't studied, i passed! hehe! he keeps repeating this even though i already clarified that i both studied and crammed. in one ear, out the other, these priests :D.

we had a hilarious dinner the other week, also enlivened by realizing how our other inkblot classmate, the one we've only just met this semester, the very nice dr. b who had administered the test to all three of us, individually, was sat just a few tables away. hehe! it must have looked like a conspiracy, but really, we hadn't seen him come in, and we had just been talking about how grateful we were that he had been so kind :). (and tonight, he lent me two books, he's sweet and lovely :)).

so anyway, we went giggling into Max's, and ordered what i shared with them, i usually ordered with my ex on our ex-dates -- chicken and pinakbet. plus this evening we had crispy pata bites. yummy and fit for the occasion that we never knew existed until minutes before we tucked in. it was fr.'s birthday yesterday :).

chicken, pork, veggies and leche flan (thought i'd almost sneak it past you that we had dessert too ;) ) soon disappeared in the intensity of the sharing about fr.'s ex-love :D :D :D and they went on dates where my gang and i went for frozen iced-tea back during my thirsty high-school Saturdays.

indeed, there is much to discover in them inkblots :D