Semestral Break and My Cabinet Ritual
At last, sembreak!
Tonight is the only time I can really call a vacation since I studied law school. It’s refreshing to not think about anything for a while; no classes, recitations, quizzes nor case digests to worry about..Till tomorrow, that is.
Tomorrow’s the official first day of classes..and I’m scared. Tomorrow is slotted for Criminal Law 2 class at 5:30-7:30. Hay… They said the professor is great and that he favors female students. The only downside is that he often assigns many cases to digest. It would have been okay had we not known that the other teachers who will be handling the other subjects are Sempio-diy and Castillo for Consti2 and Oblicon, respectively. Rumours have it that both of them assign a large number of cases to digest through-out the sem. I don’t think they meant 30 or 40 cases for the whole sem, rather, hundreds. Aarrghh..
To start the semester right, I decided to clean up my cabinet to get rid of all the papers and whatnots that are the remnants of the past semester. Every semestral break, even when I was in college, I indulge in this ritual cabinet cleansing. I took all the important papers, filed them into folders, labeled them and stuck them at the bottom of my cabinet. I collected all loose paper clips, placed them on their respective boxes, the little plastic colorful ones are on one transparent box while the big metal gold-colored ones go on the box of the paper clamps. I stacked the unused index cards and arranged them by color. The plastic fasteners go in the bottle together with the highlighters. Lastly, I placed last year’s books, except the codals, at the bottom of my cabinet to make room for the new books (which I haven’t bought yet).
After all that de-cluttering, next came the search for the proverbial notebook and pen. Even when I was in college, I used to debate whether I’ll be using a pen for that year or a pencil that semester. However, since I’m using my boyfriend’s Parker pen nowadays, I have forgone searching for a pen till a Violet Parker pen becomes available and I have the funds to buy it. :P Also, I’m still debating whether to buy a ball point Parker pen or a fountain pen instead. Nonetheless, I decided to buy a notebook tonight, upon realizing that tomorrow, in fact, is the start of classes.
I wanted a notebook that is compact, small, durable, has a place to insert my index cards, and has a pen holder. Admittedly, the pen holder is the deciding factor. I have seen countless designs on the market now and I would have bought the colorful ones had I been still in college and I was still using my notebook as a journal. :P However, this time, I need a serious notebook that will withstand countless notes-taking and be more durable than the yellow paper I used to take down review notes last sem. I found some which have the characteristics I enumerated above, however, they lack the pen holder. The pen holder is essential for me because I keep on rummaging on my bag for my ballpen and I don’t wanna do that anymore. After 30 minutes of going back and forth on the notebook aisle at Cubao Alimall National Bookstore, I was able to find a notebook that has all the characteristics I wanted and it even has a snap-on lock! The only problem is that it looks very bland and boring. I decided I’ll just stick on some lomo pictures that I’ll be printing on sticker paper. However, surprising as it may be, I’m holding the notebook right now and to tell you the truth, I’m starting to like it’s brown boring cover. Hahaha.
Hmm.. I’m debating with myself whether I’ll be highlighting my books this sem or not. I don’t like defacing the book but highlighting really helps me track the thought of the discussions. So good luck to me. :P
I really want a new set of colored pens.
