Teeth and heroes and... irritating messages
So today I encountered my first problems with Blogger, which is typical of any free site, as I have been trying to log on since 2 pm. And I can say that having to read the stupid 'the page cannot be found' message ranks right there with things that irritate me the most together with white chocolate, dirty shoes and Eminem, among others. Anyway, this is what I wanted to say:
A toothache started to bug me at about 9 pm yesterday, I tried to ignore it but I ended up not sleeping until 4:30 am today only to wake up, for a mysterious reason, at 9:30 am very tired. And it was raining, again, so needless to say that I saw more rain here in 2 days than probably 2 years back home.
Anyway, I watched the Pope's funeral on the internet, which was such a historic event that made me think our generation is so lucky to witness so many important events in history thanks to modern technology. The sad thing, of course, is that most of the important events involve death, war or natural disasters. Then I followed up on the bombing news in Cairo. Then I wanted to read anything less depressing, at least to distract myself from the toothache which was still there. Every now and then, I try to brush up on my Spanish language skills by browsing Spanish newspapers and sites. So I did just that. I read an interesting article in El Mundo comparing between Don Quijote and Superman in terms of the human need to believe in heroes with extraordinary qualities in all times. Personally, I would prefer a noble knight with a sword on a horse (it doesn't have to be white by the way, that is the horse) as hero than a man in an ostentatious costume flying around.
And, on another Spanish newspaper site, ABC, there was a poll about who is expected to win in the upcoming clash between Real Madrid and Barcelona. And, yes.. almost 63 % voted for Real Madrid. I know someone will be very happy if these expectations came true. Actually, me too.
Thank God my toothache is gone now, so it's time to get back to work before I start feeling sleepy.
p.s.
news update 1: this was written about 3 hours ago, so now I am actually sleepy.
news update 2: it is raining, again.
Mai
A toothache started to bug me at about 9 pm yesterday, I tried to ignore it but I ended up not sleeping until 4:30 am today only to wake up, for a mysterious reason, at 9:30 am very tired. And it was raining, again, so needless to say that I saw more rain here in 2 days than probably 2 years back home.
Anyway, I watched the Pope's funeral on the internet, which was such a historic event that made me think our generation is so lucky to witness so many important events in history thanks to modern technology. The sad thing, of course, is that most of the important events involve death, war or natural disasters. Then I followed up on the bombing news in Cairo. Then I wanted to read anything less depressing, at least to distract myself from the toothache which was still there. Every now and then, I try to brush up on my Spanish language skills by browsing Spanish newspapers and sites. So I did just that. I read an interesting article in El Mundo comparing between Don Quijote and Superman in terms of the human need to believe in heroes with extraordinary qualities in all times. Personally, I would prefer a noble knight with a sword on a horse (it doesn't have to be white by the way, that is the horse) as hero than a man in an ostentatious costume flying around.
And, on another Spanish newspaper site, ABC, there was a poll about who is expected to win in the upcoming clash between Real Madrid and Barcelona. And, yes.. almost 63 % voted for Real Madrid. I know someone will be very happy if these expectations came true. Actually, me too.
Thank God my toothache is gone now, so it's time to get back to work before I start feeling sleepy.
p.s.
news update 1: this was written about 3 hours ago, so now I am actually sleepy.
news update 2: it is raining, again.
Mai
posted by Mai at 5:16 PM
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