A day in the life

8:30 Mooornin'! Un poco de ejercicio y a trabajar :)

10:00 Maldito Internet defectuoso maldito internet defectuoso! grrrrr

10:30 Mensajes de Dany (tapir) :)

12:00 Oh por dios Oh por dios, prisa prisa prisa...

1:15 Llegando a clase de 1:00 ach

1:35 Gente peleándose en clase (???) ...pero si estábamos hablando de biodiversidad...

3:30 Platicando con Amaranta y Alberto, más proyectos para el semestre. ja!

4:00 Encontré a Jaq! :) Mañana se va de práctica de dinos (aaah envidiaaa!)

4:30 Corriendo a casa para imprimir el examen!!!

5:20 Eating fast suuuucks.

6:17 Llegando a clase de 6:00 ... darn

8:00 Té, Ram y Elio fuuun!

8:40 Bailando tango :) :) :)

9:30 Back in the darned appartment. Qué horrendo que la base de operaciones sea el lugar que más me pone de malas. maldita gente con actitud negativa. ni ganas de hablar.

10:10 Not a phone person, pero a veces una llamada puede mejorarlo todo :)

'Night!

good times...

When you live in the city of numbness, waking every now and then as you go about your buisness, you can find yourself in the most peculiar spaces, at the most unlikely times, in the strangest of companies.
Company? There's a good one for this city.
Outside people you actually know, rare is the case in which one of your "companions" in the come and go of the agitated lifestyle of a big city even bothers to look at you, let alone speak. It's not an investment you want to make with the valuable time you can spend looking into empty space while sitting in the subway or any of the other means of transportation you use and, let's face it, sometimes it's downright risky. Minimum etiquette is observed, if any. we become gray people, little less than background sounds, and so it goes day after day. I wonder whether we vanish a bit everyday just by living here.
The "rich mosaic" of mexican society is one where each of the components is isolated from the rest, unable to relate to any of the others. some mosaic we are.
to those bothered by this there are havens, places that find you and call you on, places you take with you wherever you are and yet miss terribly upon finding yourself again looking at the gray skies, gray buildings...gray people.

still the city has surprises, strange encounters, days to be remembered. People who look at a passing you and actually see you, people who do more than that, people who too crave for that unlikely interaction. Flowers found upon a walk under the rain. Happy and strange saturdays that start with "good morning"s from that happy haven and the goofiest ping pong matches and end up in the typical mexican way: Grandpa's house, junk food, cousins and football.
Mexico's team really kicked ass!!!:)

...esta semana...

Yyy... tuve por fin mi primera clase del taller en el que no estoy inscrita.
Estuvo tranquila y me gustó mucho, Raúl hizo muuucho énfasis en el reto que representará hacer una tesis y en el nivel de compromiso y responsabilidad que necesitaremos para ello... esto suena a que va a mantenernos ocupaditos un rato, pero me hizo muy feliz! Excited!!!
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Alb regresó de Japón el viernes pasado; está muy feliz aunque un poquitín jetlaggeado (lo cual le funciona, aparentemente uno es más productivo cuando se levanta a las 2am). Estuvo sobre todo en Kamakura y visitó muchos templos, también estuvo en Enoshima y por supuesto Tokio. Trajo fotos muy bonitas, dulces (pokis-no sé c{omo se escribe!- de manzana!!) y muchas anécdotas. Dice que quiere volver para fin de año del 2010 y que yo debo ir con él. No complaints there... tendré que ponerme a ahorrar! y a estudiar japonés más en serio, me he atrasado mucho en eso!!!
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El coro creció mucho este semestre, ahora que sí hemos ensayado con todos se nota más. Lo malo es que se va una de nuestras mejores sopranos, Izzy, el viernes tuvimos nuestro último concierto con ella. La voy a extrañar muchísimo. AAAAARF!
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Recomendación.
Si están en la fac los martes hasta tarde den una vuelta por el balcón del tlahuizcalpan (por donde está el lab de genética). Milonga con gente que sí sabe bailar tango... WOOOW muero de ganas, pero carezco de técnica :( aaanyway es muy bonito verlos!
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Esta semana he estado escuchando mucho a Hootie and the blowfish, me ponen de muy buen humor, recomiendo en particular One love, I go blind y Las Vegas nights.
La otra canción de la semana es On the radio de Regina Spektor: "this is how it works/you're young until you're not/you love until you don't/ you try until you can't/ you laugh until you cry/ you cry until you laugh/ and everyone must breathe/until their dying breath!"

Frases célebres del marqués de Miraflores

G:"voy a hacerme un exámen de sangre"
M:"Para qué?"
G:"Para comprobar si es azul"


J:"Mi amiga está buscando a un novio mexicano. Pero quiere que sea cariñoso, caballeroso, detallista, romántico..."
G:"Gueeeeeey! Tu amiga no está buscando novio mexicano!!! Me está buscando a mi!!! Esa solicitud tiene nombre y apellido"
(... y título nobiliario por supuesto)

y por cierto, mi querido marqués sigue intrigado por la conclusión apresurada acerca de su orientación sexual por parte de arenisca XD

Quiero un árbol!

I feel such a strange kind of peace of mind in the middle of this goddamned mess of a start of semester!
One of the terrible and great things of this moment of my life is to discover solitude...and the possibilities that come with it. There's also something to be said of the people who happen to transit the road with me.
One of the wonderful things is to finally see a something to shoot for in the horizon. Motivation.



In other news, I've officially decided that my house HAS to have at least one tree, all that much better if I plant it myself. Down with "roof gardens"!

Dimanche

La sushiza (así como taquiza) de ayer estuvo bueníiisima!!! Hiroki-kun se lució mucho!
Y vi a picos sin picoooos!!!! no creí vivir para esto! jeje

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Countdown chiapaneco... 1 semana YAY!

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Canción de la semana: "Cafetín de Buenos Aires" para que les den ganas de milonguear! Todos a bailar tango!

A hundred things

Lately I've been fighting my insomnia (unsuccesfully I might add) through work out (and contortionism), music, and blog reading...not so much working as I should have...but I just can't concentrate anymore! I also rant...a lot, but don't write it all down, the voices in my head are going a bit too fast to capture them, be it on paper or keyboard.
Anyway...I was checking out some old posts in a friend's blog and came up with an interesting excercise, the kind I never finish, and decided to give it a go. so here goes. A hundred things about me, or else, a hundred random thoughts...(drumroll):

1.- Sometimes I remember how to say things in english better than I do in spanish.
2.- I'm really ashamed of this (and worried about it), it annoys people
3.- That is why, up 'till now I had kept posts in spanish...but I decided it just ain't really me without a little english
4 I also think in english many times... it sucks. Have to translate things and end up making up words and stuff like that.
5 I love music LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVEEE IT!
6 When I was about 4 I wanted to be a singer
7.- I still kinda do
8.- That's why I entered the choir at school.
9.- I'm a soprano, but wish I had a darker voice
10.- The biggest reason for this is I wish I could sing blues. I seriously want to stand up in a bar one day and do a Janis haha
11.- I have a fixiation with body scrubs...hey! I like to pamper myself every now and then
12.- I also love body lotions with citric or spicy smells.
13 I wish I was braver, more decisive, more confident and a bit more passionate
14 I thought I was really patient.
15 Turns out I'm not
16 I like to dance
17 ...but I don't know how...not really
18 I think the secret to get this hability is the tango philosophy (which sounds better in spanish): "flojita y cooperando" jaja. works for girls at least...
19 I talk too much, don't always make sense and sing when I think no one's listening (generally in a low voice in case someone IS listening)
20 I love to learn new languages, right now I want to learn japanese and french...and a bit of german maybe...and italian. but japanese and french first
12 J'ai déja etudié français, mais il a eté à un longtemp. Can't remember many things, pretty sure I wrote it wrong hehe
22 I lived in Condesa since I was 3 until about a year ago, but I'M NO CONDECHI GIRL.
23 ...though I do think the best ice cream in the universe comes from La Roxy. Mint (no choco chips) ice cream yeah!
24 The other best ice cream in the universe comes from a parlor by my gran's house. The one I used to go to with my grandpa
25 He's the person I miss the most and one of the people I most admire.
26 Last time I saw him I stayed over at his place and we went out on our bikes. He knew he was sick, having me over was his way of saying goodbye.
27 Ok, yes, I'm on A drug. Caffeine. but it's family tradition!
28 I write down bits of songs in all my notebooks.
29 some of these chase me all day, inspired phrases hiding in the most unlikely tunes are my favourite kind.
30 I like to imitate a british accent sometimes, I remember a girl in elementary used to do it to general annoyment, now I find it funny.
31 I was an absolute oddball during elementary. meowed all the time and didn't like kids my own age.
32 I currently study biology, (The perfect place for a "former" oddball..haha)
33 ...there are so many things to love about it, and so many interesting fields that I still don't know what on earth (or off it) I'll end up doing
34 If everything fails plan B is musical theater or joining a circus hehehe
35 I have serious issues with the "house" and "home" concepts. I've felt for some time I lack the latter
36 I make terrible jokes, TERRIBLE.
37 People only laugh, not to be polite, but because they can't believe anyone could tell such bad jokes, or mess them up so badly.
38 I don't mind this one bit. At least they laugh...and I laugh... a lot
39 I like to walk to get to a place, I don't mind if it's a bit far.
40 My second choice is using a bike, but I don't mind riding on a Mustang on longer journeys hahaha
41 I don't like very hot weather...unless there's a cold pool (or the ocean) nearby
42 I love the sound/smell/feel of rain.
43 When I was 11 I sung solo in a theater to open a show. it was scary and awesome and produced a 6 year stage-fright stage on me
44 My cousin Jerry came to the stage when I finished singing to give me flowers. That was the best part of that night.
45 My best friends are people I admire very very much
46 My oldest friend has been my friend ever since kindergarden 2.
47 We met at a school called Hills Garden and our moms realized we lived close by
48 Our teacher's name that year was Adriana... and she was a sweetheart!
49 Also that year I met a boy named Rafa who I ran into years later, her mom recognized me as the girl who "used to chase him to give him a kiss"...how embarrasing!
50 When that lady told me this I finally accepted I might sometimes be a bit flirty... (oh, and this was about just 2 years ago)
51 I love practicing sports, but haven't done it for a while
52 My favourite was gymnastics. Training on the club has been one of the funnest things I've ever done (and was partially inspired by a scene from Burton's "Batman returns", remember catwoman? She was my hero)
53 Right now I feel extremely out of shape and frankly a bit ...ok ok, not fat... but not particularly skinny either.
53 Yes, in that sense I'm a bit shallow. also a family tradition, gran goes berserk when her kids or grandkids gain weight and it starts to show
54 On the other hand, my other grandma used to discuss the possibility that I might be anorexic or bulimic whenever I entered a room.
55 One thing I am proud of are my legs,I don't think I show them off enough. Then again I think it would be unfair to other legs.
56 I should really sleep now...
57 But this is entretaining! (and strangely therapeutic)
58 I looove cheese...I'm going to take a moment right now to stand up for a piece of cheese...hang on...

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59 OK, I'm back now.
60 One of the persons I currently admire most is my drawing professor, Aldi
61- I wish I could do what he did, just take my stuff and go off to some strange land...see what happens.
62 I wonder whether I would survive if ever I worked up the nerve to do it.
63 But I think I would rather experience the kind of lonliness he felt there than experience it right at... this house.
64 I sometimes really like being on my own for long periods of time... other times I just can't stand me and need people and noise around me. When this happens late at night it gets pretty unbearable
65 Right now, I wish I wasn't alone. I could use a hug and a "are you nuts!?"... and another hug
66 I use "..." way too much
67 I keep getting flashbacks lately, so yesterday I passed by my old school and decided to take a look...it looks smaller. I feel old haha
68 I'll call anyone who's over a month older than me "grandpa" or "grandma"... it's only a joke, don't take it as an offense.
69 I wish I was by the sea right now. Listening to waves crashing. soothing...
70 I like the word "indeed"
71 I tried to walk from school to my house again today... I should probably stop waisting so much time in such useless pursues.
72 I want to sing!!!!! Those poor inocent neighbours.
73 When I was little I was afraid of falling asleep and never waking up, or that the world might end soon... used to be easily scared.
74 My favourite movie at age 3 was the little mermaid. My mom still knows most of the lines.
75 "I don't wanna die without any scars!" Tyler (Brad Pitt) on "Fight club", seen it?
76 I love lying with my legs up the arms of the couch and my head hanging down
77 I love the dizzy feeling when I get up too
78 I could easily become a speed freak, I love fast cars, motorcycles, roller coasters and everytime I'm somewhere really high I wonder what it would feel like to drop from there (how very suicidal of me...)
79 I love Charles M. Schulz comics. Snoopy and Woodstock rule all.
80 I want a piercing, many in fact. But I've always been too chicken to go get them. Lately I've also considered a tatoo... not so sure about that though.
81 I was always more of a cat person, my kindergarden sweetheart was a dog person... I think that's the real reason why that didn't work out.
82 I think I have a terrible karmic debt that is going to catch up with me soon (still easily scared then...)
83 I really do try to learn from my mistakes.
84 I get the impression that my short term memory is increasingly poor and my vocabulary is suffering lagoons that get bigger and bigger since I started my professional studies. Funny thing 85 I like to get up when it's still dark
86 I love to travel87 I can write on a keyboard like an office assistant (using all my fingers). We had a typing course on 7th grade. A friend (Daniela) and I used to write "hidden messages" between the jujujukikikilololo's hahaha
88 I REALLY hate cultural prejudice... I was deeply offended by a comment a proffessor made the other day regarding the german...even though I'm no german hehe
89 I like knowing very different kinds of people, it can be a very enriching experience (y sí, "enriching" existe, lo acabo de averiguar)
90 I let music really get to me... I can't help it, it can absolutley change my mood.
91 I used to cry with every single movie I watched...every single one
92 Now I don't cry... not in front of people anyway. Not if I can avoid it
93 I tend to forget important dates on june and july but not for the rest of the year. I don't know why that happens
94 It annoys me when people assume that because of what I'm studying I'm a hippie vegetarian and greenpeace activist.
95 Or when they ask "marine biologist?"...sure, I study the whales in Xochimilco...
96 yipee! I'm almost done!
97 I've meant to make a correction of my "el momento zen de la semana" post, Alberto and Emmanuel also deserve special awards!
98 I like people who smile for no reason in particular. The ones that mean it (it shows)
99 I like to watch movies at home with a liter of Oreo ice cream and a couple of friends.
100 Jai guru deva...om!