Archive for October, 2004
Monday, October 25th, 2004
You´re all crazy!!
To set the record straight, I am #1. a Christian and #2. for the most part, poltically liberal. Somewhere along the line, it was decided that these two things are by their very definition incompatible. Liberals think Christians are close-minded and hypocritical. Christians think liberals are morally deficient and hypocritical. And I get the insanity [...]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Things I´ve seen on television: both are absurd, one is funny.
Sometimes we watch the news at lunchtime. Spanish news is not all that different from American news — it seems to either be numbingly tragic and disaterous or numbingly fluffy and inconsequential. The other day they did a piece on the sexuallity of the Spanish, citing statistics (how often everyone does it, where they do [...]
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
Old School
So there´s a poster in the secretary´s office downstairs in the Centro de Lenguas Modernas where I come every day for classes that says: University of Granada 450th Anniversary and it´s from over 20 years ago.
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Saturday, October 16th, 2004
Not about Spain
So I´m quoted in the new Chapman Magazine, mostly because I worked in the Chapman University PR office this summer and was on hand for a quote. I´m not really sure how I feel about it. The issue is about the 50th Anniversary of the school moving from L.A. to Orange County and they asked [...]
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Friday, October 15th, 2004
About pigeons. Please at least read the last section.
On my second day in Europe, a frantic, low-flying pigeon in London almost ran beak-first into my face. Since then I´ve run into large quantities of pigeons on an almost daily basis, although perhaps “run at” is a more appropriate term, as I get a lot of satisfaction in chasing them down and watching them [...]
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
Return
Whew. I am back from my long European Tourist Adventure. Many, many awesome times were had. But I also returned to Granada at 7:30 this morning after a 15 hour bus ride from Madrid and slept for about four hours. Classes start in earnest tomorrow so I have to begin thinking in Spanish again. And [...]
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
leaving on a jet train
John Denver´s song is playing in this Internet cafe that always short-shifts me on time. In two hours I´ll be catching a cab with four fellow travelers to the train station where we´ll catch the overnight to Barcelona. From there we fly to Venice, where we´ll spend the night and probably ride a few water [...]
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Monday, October 4th, 2004
Madid, but not Mad.
Today was a free day in Madrid. Here are the things that I did: -Got a good night sleep. possibly my last for a while. -Went to the Reina Sophia Contemporary Art museum. Saw early surrealist Spanish art, a bunch of Picasso, including Guernica. They say you can´t really appreciate that painting unless you see [...]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2004
Race
So Internet cafes are more expesive in Madrid and we´ve been coming and going so much it hasn´t been easy to get on a computer long enough to type something worthwhile out. I´m not promising that tonight will be any different. But last night I was trying to type at a place above an arcade [...]