Its raining again in Valencia, and I don't want to go outside. It has been raining off and on for about two weeks now, and I have come to realize that while a little rain every once in a while is wonderful, constant rain is unbearably depressing. I am definitely a sun person. I like hot warm to hot weather and sun. So I am hoping that the sun comes ( Read more... )

Because sometimes even the excessively neutral need to take a side.

http://www.algore.com/cards.html

Please do a little part and help send the global warming message to congress. Cause hey, if I can get off my fence and do it, so can you.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The first stanza of a poem by by Mark Strand. I don't know if anyone has read it, but I love the poem, particularly the first stanza.

I have just returned from one of the most unusual vacations I have ever taken. I went to England with my friend Ella and we had quite a few adventures and misadventures in London and Sheffield. We arrived in London last Wednesday afternoon. We stayed at her father's house in south London, but in order to get there, we had to treck through the ( Read more... )

For a multitude of reasons, my artistic spirit has decided to resurface again. However, sadly my meager artistic talent has decided to remain on vacation. This situation is torturous because first and foremost, I still have a ton of studying to do, and artistic whims are really distracting. Also, even when I try to write in order to quell the ( Read more... )

I just finished my first final exam for the semester. Never in my whole life have a felt so bewildered on a test.

Well, at least its over, and I can move onto the tests that I think I can pass.

I just rode in a taxi with the oldest taxi driver alive and his drag queen girlfriend? The driver didn't have change for my 20 so he went to the gas station to get money. He then proceeded to stiff me one euro. I didn't bother to ask him for the missing euro. It is amazing the people one meets in life. I think when I become a novelist and I write a ( Read more... )

There is something oddly wonderful about watching the world wake up as you are desperately trying to win a few hours of sleep. Damn jetlag!

As I am currently aawke at 8:30 AM becuase I have given up on sleep for today, I will now fill you in on the happenings of the past month. And since I am currently reading Memorias Posthumas de Blas Cubas, it ( Read more... )

This is a game I've joined that when completed, will be the biggest game ever created. It is all about how people are connected around the world and you win by how creative and friendly you can be. So if you think you are up for it, take a look, join the game and let the madness ensue!

LOST

The URL is www.lost.eu/d100 (in case the above link doesn't

So I realized as I was reading my past entries, that I tend to only rant in this journal and describe the bad parts of my life here in Spain. I don't want people to think that this is some horrible experience for me, so I have decided to make a list of the really cool things about my life and what makes Valencia so amazing.

1) The weather is ( Read more... )