I've been sleeping all afternoon despite yesterday's pledge that I will use this weekend to exercise and get a move on on the projects I need to work on. Now that I've been on slumber mode from 1 PM to 7 PM, I'm ready to do anything, except I can't find a CD containing all the materials I need.

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I think I really must dread weekdays now, because when I woke up this morning, I fearfully asked my mother if today is indeed Saturday and that I'm not just losing my mind.

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Many thanks to the anonymous poster who left a comment in my previous post about the missing Muyak. He/she clarified that Amihan really did look for her. That was the Wednesday night episode which I skipped in order to watch TAR 7's finale. The Amazing Race totally made my mother and I promise that if we ever see some Americans begging for money, we would willingly give them some. Now, if it were only easy to determine if the team begging for money was a well-liked one or the one who'll be largely hated when the season airs. Hee.

Hah. I never really could resist talking about Encantadia. Last night totally conformed to Philippine drama dogma: Whoever loved the character most in his/her adoptive family will die, leaving him/her* to suffer at the hands of her evil stepfamily. And then she'll find friends and and she'll discover that she's actually the heiress to a fabulous fortune. And then she'll be free to flee the clutches of her evil stepfamily and ruin their lives because now she has oodles of money at her disposal and can therefore summon the Unholy Assassins of Doom who will kill off her tormentors, as well as the Wealth-Siphoning Monsters who will embroil her stepfamily and the girl who was her rich and gorgeous high school rival in abject poverty. But of course, she won't do this because she is A Good Girl who will Forgive her stepfamily.

Milagros/Lira is a lot luckier than this, of course, because she's the future queen of an enchanted land and, if she ever realizes it, could literally blow her stepmom and stepsister to kingdom come with just a flash of her eyes.

I just have to say this one: Mark Herras' getup last night made me think he's some kind of goon.

*Usually a she because the regular screaming matches, hair-pulling sessions, and crying fits are mainstays of Philippine dramatic films and soaps, also because it's more dramatic when mistreated girls or women on TV and film triumph in the end.