Madrid II

After wandering about for some time in a King's version of a summer cottage, we went to Segovia: the home of small barbequed piglets and innumerable cozy streets...I had Cochinillo: asking for anything else would be like..like...eating Pasta in New Dehli. Or something. The Old Town is beautiful, and full of little shops and clothes hanging out to dry from the balconies, and the roman aqueduct is astonishing and elegant and massive...

But it is not enough with an aqueduct; the town also bosts of a gothic cathedral that glows at sunset and Alcazar, a castle that looks almost fairytale-ish...

Again, I'd like to go back, and really explore the town down to its last cobblestone, sit and draw and just look. Especially at sunset. Like most central Spain, the palette is brown, dust, sand..until the sun sets, and everything starts to glow an incadecent golden orange. The sand colored buildings, the earth comes to live...

Weekend in Madrid I

We went to La Granja de San Ildefonso, a small palace constructed aprox 1724 or thereabouts to serve as a retirement home for the Spanish king who had had enough of intrigues and politics and decided to abdicate. He got to relax a whole year before his succesor died, and had to go back to "kinging" for another 20 years. Poor fellow. The garden is beautiful in autum, and I'll definitivly go back in May some year to see the more formal parts of it and the herbal garden..It is very big, and I saw enough to know I want to go back.

The palace it self was a let down. It houses a museum of tapestries and those are incredible, but there is almost no information about the people who lived there, how they passed their days..So you walk in these rooms and there might be a small plaque that says "The bedroom" and then a nice bed, and that is it.

It is that time of the year

ALMOST!!!!!

Uuuhh, only one week left to the first sunday in Advent, and even though the Rule is no christmas music until 1. dec, well, obviously that does not include when the first advent sunday comes in november. Right? Right!

I went to el trastero this morning and got the Advent star, the music, xmas cards and the Advent-light thingy. (I'll take pictures next sunday) (promise)

And we have an entire week off, from the 5th to the 9th and I'll.....

I'll be deep down in my study chair, glued to the books, that's where.

Ah, the hard life of students....

;)

I'm da Bomb

HA!

I went and did the exam: such courage, such valor..and no: I do not say that with irony. At least not much. It is the equalent of an aracnophobic petting a spider.

I will celebrate by re-reading Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida and eat cheesedoodles and drinking Murphy's :)

Why?

I would say all the big publishing agencies and amazon is going so well, they do not want my money. Ereader manufacturers must have gold coming out of their arses, since they do not seem to give a damn.

I wanna thingy! Well, what I really want is the ability to by a book and get it right away and not wait FOREVER and for a price that reflects the fact that I have less rights with an ebook than with a printed one.

Maybe I should make a list of all the books I would have bought during a year, and send the number to the pub houses...

I have an exam tomorrow.

Gulp.

Dance

On saturday I went to see my contemp teacher perform with her dance company "Tarde y Temprano Danza". In honor of the occation ("I go out of the house! On a saturday! And it is not grocery shopping!") I put on a dress. And subsecuently freezed my legs and fingers and head off, trying to find the darned place. Boy, it was windy and cold. Hello Winter!

They performed two pieces, the first "Acabado en A", two dancers in red dresses, two vanity tables with makeup and mirrors, and that is about it, because just as they began small movements to quiet music I had a cough attack and almost popped my eyes out trying to supress the coughing. We are talking turning heads in the rows in front of me..

But about halfway into it, my coughing stilled, and just then they started a part I liked, playing with weight, fighting, pushing eachother, lifting eachother, powerbalance..

The second piece was "Tacones y Naranjas" And I liked that one the most. Four women, in dresses and high heels, exploring movement with oranges, dancing together in couples, sometimes playful, sometimes in jerking almost robotic movements. Then a segment where all four hold on to eachother, creaping through legs and between eachother. Fluid, continous, connected.

Then I had to cough a bit more.

They ended the piece standing in the center, toing twisting motions with their upper bodies, to a rythmic sound, slowly turning little by little, going lower and lower..

And then I froze my legs off again going home.

the end

my pumpkin

bullet post time

• I managed to get my butt out of my sickbed and see Pina last week. Loved it: the absurd, the intense, the beauty of movements, the happy..
• I got sick again.
• Did my halloween costume in ca 4 hours (1700-2030) monday evening. It is still not finished, but it was dark and we were all drunk anyway.
• I was at a party. My social skills are nonexistent, but I survived.
• Gin&Tonic is jummy.
• I got home with a pair of black wings from a fallen angel. Have no idea what to do with them.
• Have lost my voice.
• I carved my very first pumpkin and thus I am no longer a pumpkin-virgin.
• No hangover, thank you vey much. I think Gin&Tonic agrees with me.