No rest for the wicked...

When it rains, it pours! And i'm not talking about dollars raining here. Kana bang 'phenomenon' nga there are times in your life when you go for days on end with nothing to do but wriggle your toes, and then something comes up finally, tapos sunod-sunod or patong-patong pa to the point you wish you could split your bod to be in two places at the same time?

Coz that seems to be the case with me these days---beginning with last week when Rene's German relatives came to town, and we were supposed to watch this annual school play but couldn't as we had to take them sightseeing elsewhere...(seeing as they barely had two straight days to suroy with us).Then off they went, only to be replaced today by this lady, Atty.Dorothy Cajayon, who happens to be the national president of the Silliman U Alumni Association. She was our guest speaker last November at the alumni chapter's Christmas /post-Founder's Day fellowship, when everyone was so busy and she wasn't 'asikaso' as well as i would wish, so I promised to take her around the next time she was in town...

While she's here from her hometown Zamboanga on other non-SU related business (she has 2 hearings scheduled in Gensan today and tomorrow, lawyer that she is), this was the 'next time around'. Unfortunately, starting nga last weekend, was/is the Speech Festival nina Momon sa school---and this afternoon, is a round of speech choir, oration, etc competitions where my presence is a must, seeing as Momon is joining the speech choir for the first time (and i never miss any school programs ever). All this start at 5:30pm. Mam Dot (for Dorothy)finishes with her first court hearing at 5, and it was expected that i would be making sundo and taking her out to dinner na. But since i have to be at the school pa, and I can't morphe into two,it took a lot of phone calls to arrange for other people to do the job for me. And buti na lang, i got our 'financier' of the group to host a dinner at his home tonight. But everything happens in Gensan, which means once Momon's part is over tonight, i shall have to risk life and limb to make the 45-minute drive in the dark to meet up with the whole group (just the core peeps) for dinner and a business meeting. Then after a decent amount of time which involves eating, chitchat and karaoke (as demanded by the jolly fatty host), Mam Dot and i make our exit to drive back home. The least I can do kasi is offer her lodgings for the night, kasali na rin dun the sightseeing (pineapples everywhere!) tomorrow morning on the way back to the city.

Coz it's back to the city nga that i have to take her early tomorrow, even if her hearing is at 2pm pa. Know why? another case of 'pouring rain': tomorrow is when the ladies club take out the wards of the Gensan Home for the Aged for their annual valentine treat at Jollibee!!So it's either I dump my guest once we reach the city or she joins my group. She chose the latter option, as she was very interested in seeing how we go about our civic work, and get tips for her own troupe in Zambo. So that seems to work out fine finally.
Meantime, i'm still in the midst of making sure tonight goes smoothly for all of us.

Gotta go, gotta run. No rest for the wicked, y'know. heeheehee.