Friends and Benefits

.. of having this thesis done (on time)!

I have been sitting here in my room for three days now just to keep this thesis alive.
Actually, this wasn't how I imagined my thesis experience to be. Not like this.

But anyway, looking at the bright side of things is definitely a better feeling.
So here I am, looking. Hahaha.

Thesis.
It brought me closer to some of my friends. Yeah, to some.
It gave me one big reason to use the Internet (at home) almost all the time.
It gave me an idea on who among the ones I know is the most frequent Y!M user.
It made me think harder.
It forced me to clean my room once in a while (I can't work/think properly on a messy room).
It made me upgrade to Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta.
It gave me more time to listen to the songs on my iTunes library (and rate them, too).
It made me laugh and cry at [almost] the same time.
It taught me how to create PDF files from MS Word documents.
It made me install 7 big-time PC games (to kill boredom):
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
- Level-Up Games' FreeStyle Online Basketball
- The Sims 2
- Audition Dance Battle Southeast Asia
- Sim City 4 Deluxe
- Battle Realms
- Audition Dance Battle Philippines
It gave me adrenaline rush in the middle of the night.
It kept reminding me what day it is (in case of deadlines and meetings).
It taught me how to eat five times a day (hahahah.. detox!).
It forced me to take vitamins.

And since I spend hours and hours on the Internet, it gave me the the chance to download movies! Yep.
I am thesis-ing and movie-downloading at the same time.

In three days, I managed to download 9 movies already! All DVD-rip Quality except for one.
- December Boys
- Stardust
- Superbad
- The Condemned
- The Simpsons Movie
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
- Blades of Glory
- American Pie presents: Beta House
- Beowulf (Bad quality. Obviously recorded from a movie house. I immediately deleted after download)

Woohoo. These flicks are right in time for our almost-5-day Christmas vacation in the province. I'll bring House M.D. (Seasons 1 and 2), too, just in case the movies aren't enough.


See? All these happened/are happening because of the thesis.
This may not be how I imagined my thesis experience to be,
but I'm slowly learning to live with it.

It's called neuroplasticity, dude.

photo taken from here