### Dreams 🧫 I could have sworn I had dreams, I just don’t remember anymore. ### Ruminations 🩻 1. I think I now know what Vico’s Oplan Kaayusan rounds are really for. They’re for a lot of purposes, like a Swiss Army Knife. Not only for participatory governance to increase transparency and active participation of ordinary people in policy and decision-making, but also to increase morale and compliance with whatever Vico and men like him stand for. If they keep doing that, people will really follow them because they’re actively trying to get people involved and people really feel like they’re being seen and heard, and best of all, if they feel like they’re always being watched anyway and keep being reminded that an authority really is there to keep things in check—so there’s no reason to stray and become complacent. Let’s face it, people rarely check their own behavior anyway, and need an external authority to keep things in line most of the time, or some of the time, to face more accountability and transparency. I really feel like this is the true purpose of those rituals anyway that they keep doing, like flag-raising, like awarding ceremonies, like oath-taking. It’s also why Catholics function the way they do—often criticized for being too ritualistic and robotic and idolatrous for needing physical and stark reminders of their practice like rosaries and the sign of the cross. #### Sensations/Body Stuff 🫟 Worked out for 10 minutes!!! YAY!!! My heart rate reached 180+BPM!!! Every calorie matters now. You cannot be drinking your calories from C2 as if that’s real tea—it’s fake and sugar only!!!!! God is too good to me. I was browsing the ref earlier for food and there was bread and jam. I meant to make a sandwich because I was a little peckish but I was too lazy to do it. Then an hour later my mom made me three slices of toasted buttered bread, so much better than strawberry jam from Baguio!!! Even my cravings are being satisfied. An Angel must have fed my mom the thought to make bread for me, as I really refused to eat Batchoy because it’s unhealthy.