CLOUDS 3

Suffering unusually low temperatures for Mexico City for a few days had a couple of rewards, at least. They reminded me of giant snow flakes, and I took them just with a few minutes difference. And again, I'm amazed about the patterns created by the winds.

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I think there's nothing more wonderful when you are stressed out by work than staring at the sky for 5 minutes, and having your camera at hand. Just look at those patterns!

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It's really funny the amount of things that you may get to see if you only look around and pay a little attention.

I started this picture collection because I became intrigued by the unusual patterns, and I was reminded of my blogger-friend Kyklops and his vending machine collection.
The first picture was taken from a hospital window, where my Mom was lying with a severely broken ankle (you can see some scotch tape on the glass), and that made me think about the flow, and the balance... and my head hasn't come back from the heights yet.

First Shot

Second Shot

THANKSGIVING MEXICAN STYLE

Mexican people do not celebrate Thanksgiving. We usually save our grateful prayers for Christmas or December 12th (The Lady of Guadalupe), but among all the religious non-sense Mexican people are devoted to, I find this foreign holiday particularly appealing. Just reflecting upon all the good things, about how lucky you are, despite the catastrophes around, seems pretty fair to me, wether you believe in God or not.

All in all, I do have a lot of things to be grateful for. In spite of all the accidents, drawbacks, changes, crisis, and trouble, my family and I are still alive, and more or less in one piece. We are still granted our daily bread, and our problems have solutions. We have reasons to be grateful.

Men...

Some fun things I've learned about men.

1. Men believe that shampoo and toilet paper are a mushroom species which grow in the bathroom.

2. Men are brave for dealing with mice and rats, but they cannot handle a needle.

3. Men find disturbing the fact that a girl places movies such as Spiderman, Akira, X-men, next to "Sleepless in Seatle".

4. Most Mexican male drivers believe driving women are a genetic mistake, like Down Syndrome.

5. Most men are surprised by a woman who loathes "Twilight" movie, book, and the whole concept.

6. Most Mexican men are deeply disturbed by a woman who is able to efficiently change a tire.

7. Most men are shocked by a woman who states maternity is not part of her life plan.

8. Regular men look lost when a woman speaks about Anime.

9. Regular men are shocked a woman has never heard of Colin Tellado but has read all canonical Ian Flemming's 007 books.

Unbalance in life.

Terry Pratchett was absolutely right when he stated that unfortunate events are a bunch of cowards who never face you individually, but jump on you as a pack.

Car breaks dowm, mom breaks down, work situation goes off balance... Every negative thing that can bump on me has done it, and I am barely keeping migrane at bay with 2 aspirins for breakfast every morning.

It is in situations like this when my true character is put to the test, and I become reassured I'm pathologically optimistic: yeah, I was about to ruin my car's engine, but the failure was discovered just in time to prevent that. Sure, my mom broke her ankle in 3 pieces, but at least it wasn't her hip or her skull, and of course my boss and supervisors are giving me a hard time, but I do have enough evidence I've been doing my job properly, so what the hell? Life goes on, doesn't it?

Being thrown off balance by life is not exactly my cup of tea, but I'm sure I will survive.

De Vuelta y Por Qué

Decidí volver a escribir tras la frustración de lidiar con Facebook, que requiere picar un montón de botoncitos y rascarle al cuadrito de la laptop para expresar ideas grandes, como éstas. Soy floja por naturaleza, y me da menos pereza mecanografiar, porque mantengo las muñecas sobre el borde y solo muevo mis lindos deditos.

Hace mucho que no se me antojaba escribir, o no tenía tiempo. Aunque sigo sin tiempo, hoy la compulsión fue más fuerte, al ver las listas de los 20 libros más influyentes en las vidas de mis amigos. Ellos mencionaron varios de mis favoritos que a mí se me pasaron, lo cual me avergüenza mucho, aunque el chiste era recordarlos en menos de 15 minutos, lo cual me lleva a desplegar una enorme sonrisa al recordar por qué son mis amigos: por nuestras similitudes y nuestras diferencias.

Vaya este nuevo post como un saludo a todos ellos que lo inspiraron.

Teen Teaching

How on Earth am I suppossed to teach any Language and Literature topic to 75 teenagers on a Friday just after a two day break?

Any ideas?

Anyone...?

GAAAAH!!

Grades

My first bimester is over, and I'm facing a very long night ahead of me, since I miscalculated the amount of time required to average 75 teenagers.

On the other hand, I have finally been able to drive my car to my work place, after three months of Saturday driving lessons; but taking into the account the current situation, I think I'll have to take the school bus one last time tomorrow, to be able to take a nap on the way. jaja.

OMG!!

OH, MY GOD!! It's been more than a month, and I've found myself lacking the ability to find spare time to devote to my poor little blog. Therefore, I won't bore you to death with anything trivial, except for this pictures I was able to take for the first time with my digital camera during the Mexican Independence Celebrations, which just took place last September 15th and 16th. As you will be able to detect, I took my time to find the purpose of the "landscape" function.