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Antonio's spaceThese are the days my friends, and these are the days my friends... 8/20/2006 The last entryThis is the last entry I'll post on this blog. As of today I've switched e-mail and MSN accounts so I'll have a new MSN space the information for which will be posted here.
It's been so much fun having this Space and I look forward to starting a new one. 8/6/2006 One week to go It's just one more week before I go back to Mexico City. I'm both excited and nervous, especially because I've been reading the news online but I don't really know how intense the whole post-electoral conflict is there.
This week I'll be somewhat busy preparing for the trip. Tomorrow is a holiday; I'll probably pack most of my things and separate what I'm leaving here for when I come back and what I'm taking with me. I have no plans for Tuesday so far. On Wednesday I'll take the things I'll leave here to a storage place they have in residence... I hope nobody takes my stuff. Then Thursday is my last contact improvisation class. For those of you who didn't know, I'm taking contact dance lessons and I'm still really bad at it but I love it. It usually happens that I come back home with bruises from all the exercises and in general I like that, makes me feel like they are my 'battle wounds' (I know... HOW LAME) but anyway, I think they make me look badass (I don't have a particularly nice and round ass so I'm not sure that describing myself as being badass is a good thing). Finally, Friday I'll leave the university and go stay at a hotel near the airport. This is so I don't miss the flight again (read the blog entry Departures and Arrivals to see how irritating it was last time I missed my flight). And Saturday I'll be on my way back home. I'll keep you updated of all the irrelevant stuff I do there as well as some of the relevant things. 7/15/2006 Where would you go? Spring/summer term is almost over and I will have about a month off before starting classes again. During that month I'll be back in Mexico City, where I was born and grew up until I came to Canada for University in September last year.
Having lived in the City for 22 years means a lot of the things that tourists like to do and see I take for granted, as a part of the landscape, so to speak. So, there are a lot of places that I may never have visited just because I never really felt I had anything to do there.
Anyway, I have a friend who was going to go to Mexico City for a couple of weeks but in the end he couldn't go. So I've decided to do this: from now until August 12 I will keep a list in this blog with the places I want to see when I go back, and also the places that other people would like to see if they could travel to Mexico City.
During the time I spend in Mexico I will try to visit as many places from the list as possible and take pictures of them and post them here as well. If there is any building, museum, park, street, theatre, amusement park, that you would go to if you were in Mexico City, add a comment to this blog entry and I'll put it up in the list.
A few things: I may also visit places which are not Mexico City itself but that are close to it. However, I can't promise I'll go to those places. So... where would you go? 7/6/2006 Fragmentary recollections of what I dreamt last night I don't really recall any plot, that is, a structure to all the pieces of what I dreamt. Mostly I remember these things like brief scenes. First I was in some sort of flea market in downtown Mexico City trying to buy a bath sponge but nobody sold them. Then I was at a restaurant with my grandmother and I think we were sitting at one table and then we had to switch tables for some reason. There was one part which involved a car, my mum, my grandmum, I'm not sure if one or two of my aunts, my cousin, and someone's house (I know, not very specific).
At another point I was at the cinema buying my ticket and two friends of mine, Dave and Harley, were there together. One of them, Dave, was eating ice-cream. They both saw me and they just kept talking and all they said to me was hi and then each of us went his own way.
Then I was at some sort of outdoor celebration. With no more than 10 people I'd say. We were all dancing carrying someone on our shoulders. I think at some point everybody commented on the same song having been played over and over and over.
Another part of the dream was football related. Two guys walking on stilts were running towards the goal to score. There was no goal keeper. I think they both fell.
Then I was in my house with my mum, brothers, cousins, uncle, and aunt. The youngest of my cousins had a new gecko (a live one) which came packed as if it were a toy. When he opened the package the gecko escaped and we were running after it and then we couldn't find it anymore. My cousin seemed a bit sad at the loss of his new pet but not too much. I think this was the second gecko that he had lost in my house. So my mother was kind of angry at my cousin for letting animals break loose just like that and she told him: <<That's the last time you bring any pets, animals, and such to my house>>. My cousin looked at her and he asked whether he could bring felines or cats.
The last part of the dream, I had for some reason turned into two people: physically I was two people. Both looked like me, both were me, but one acted more like me and the other was a party animal, sort of. Anyway, I don't remember exactly what stuff these two me's had been through but at this point of the dream all my family was gathered together and they were saying goodbye to both separate me's. I was going to perform some kind of put-both-selves-back-together ritual. I think the ritual had something to do with key rings and both my avatars walking towards each other and right into each other, and I think throwing ourselves down the building and drowning in a swimming pool underneath. I woke up half-way through the ritual. 6/26/2006 Binary epiphany.1001 1100-1001-1011-101 11001-1111-10101, 1000-1111 1000-101-101.
a-1, b-2...z-26. 6/1/2006 If the stars ruled our lives...I was trying to solve a sudoku puzzle on today's newspaper. By chance I saw that the horoscope section was on the same page and I was curious to see what kind of stuff people write there... Here's what it said for me (I'm a Capricorn):
Dealing with co-workers is difficult today. (It's all their fault, not yours.) Consider this an opportunity to demonstrate how to be gracious and above it all. Don't be pushy with your opinions. Don't try to suggest reform and improvements. No one is listening. Cool your jets. (1)
Wow! I wonder if people really follow this kind of advice.
Oh, and if that weren't enough, at the beginning of the section it says:
All Signs Moon Alert We have the All Clear to shop or make important decisions today. The Moon is in Leo.
I wonder what's the author's star sign...
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(1) Georgia Nicols, National Post, May 31, 2006, AL8. 4/27/2006 My 22nd birthday presents (addendum).So I went back to Mexico for a week (from April 18th until April 25th). That's where I took the pictures of Downtown Mexico City and my lovely weiner.
Well, my mum felt like she wanted to give me something for my birthday because she hadn't done so on January 17th. So I decided to update my photo album to show what I got from her:
* Gillian Wolfe's ¡Mira! (a Spanish translation for Look! Body Language in Art). It's a book that teaches the rudiments of visual art appreciation for children (I'm not familiar with visual art appreciation so I really appreciate there are books like this out there).
* A sticker album for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Although I'm not a huge fan of football I must say this is a cool album in many ways and it's been fun getting the stickers and trading them with my younger brothers. It's also a very special gift because this coming Friday (April 28th) I will be going to Germany to do a play (Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good).
So there, at 22 I'm still my mum's little child, how cool is that?! |
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