I went to a very fancy bar/restaurant Thursday night. Being so fancy, I assumed there would be no problem getting a Campari... still have a restless stomach you see. However, said fancy bar had no idea what I was talking about, neither could my Spanish translator make them understand. The place had all their liquor bottles UNDER the bar, so pointing was impossible.

Looking for something on YouTube today I came across part of this song... a YouTube poster was nice enough to promptly send me the link to the original.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campari

Really friggin creepy. A hexagon??? You know that feeling when something just doesn't fit.....

NASA says they'll get better picture once Saturn is out of winter.... in about two years.

CREEPY!!!
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/27/hexagon_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070327163030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000

Today was Tuesday... apparently there was a giant "chill pill" in my system... because the last two days at school I have made nice and easy on myself (yet stayed ahead of the work!). I must say I was a bit heartbroken when my students... even the most artistic and literary of them, didn't enjoy, or get, the This American Life (radio's greatest show of the last decade [says Slate Magazine) radio show I played for them (including pre-writing and discussion)..... Must remember the name of Professor S?S at Pace.... we are not cutting down a jungle, but watering the desert. (now, doesn't that sound depressing?!)

Nevertheless... Helen called tonight, and I told her my career revelations... No disagreement on that. I suggest to her some of the Bach Flower Remedies... invested a bit of Euro myself on those today.... even though I feel great... have been massively productive all week.... don't want to take any chances.

I got a letter from my Uncle Frank. I'm tempted to call... but think I can say more profound things in a real handwritten letter.

Oh, and as I go to bed now... I will say I will have sweeter dreams after some honest flirting from... don't you wish you knew!!!;-)

Finally, after nearly three (3) weeks of feeling near death (three week flu!?!, no... three week stress), I began to feel normal just this Wednesday!!!

Call it much needed stress relief.... I lost-the-plot over a spat over computer printing, but boy do I feel good now.

There are a million reasons, which I will not bore you with at the moment... but some good side-effects... 1) been drinking tons of liquids and not eating much food = just a tad weight loss... 2) No longer crave anything that I ate or drank with that stomach... even alcohol and my favorite clove cigarettes!

Therefore... continuing with the soup diet, although plan on supplementing with
fresh fruits and veggies... enjoying the spring Spanish sun... no longer a casual
smoker (ah, luckily, never was much of one in the first place), and the running
shoes are out of the closet.

Vera and I talked by telephone this morning.
My lovely friends (hi Judit:-).
Besides our much more profound matters... she always reminds me that I need to get out of this dead-end career path I've been chasing, and let my creativity out. I thought of her the other day as this realization hit me over the head, then lifted the weight off my shoulders as I saw the light. Is this the best time to do it? Yes! The future starts now!

I was just catching up on my EuroNews NoComment when I saw my poor little street back in Hungary filled with angry kids in black and tear gas. What better way to celebrate another historical defeat. Anyway.... cops and press out-numbered the few hundred gyerekek. Kristen was there for Bloomburg and got her first tear gassing. Kristen will be here in Madrid enjoying the sunshine with me in just two weeks.

http://index.hu/gal?dir=0703/belfold/070315andrassy/

Ever have one of those days? Excuse the quality... 6am on a Saturday morning.

I had to stay home sick today. Turns out it was PMS... must have marked the calendar wrong. It's pretty severe, every month... like an awful flu, and, well... you've now seen the despair that accompanies it... getting worse by the year :-(

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)

Damn, gotta throw-away my PeterPan peanut butter. Shouldn't be eating the stuff anyway! Peanuts are the most highly contaminated nut around (pestisides), and that hydrogenated oil. You could get an organic and local one in Hungary (including jars of sunflower butter, almond butter, and pumpkin seed butter)

Also, look at the global reach of manufactured food products. Errr.

Initially, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said all Peter Pan peanut butter bought since May 2006, and all of Wal-Mart Inc.'s Great Value peanut butter with the batch code 2111 should be discarded.

US manufacturer ConAgra Foods Inc. makes both, and has recalled all potentially contaminated batches.

But on Friday night, the FDA said ConAgra had said all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter beginning with product code 2111, including peanut butter toppings, back to October 2004, were being recalled.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=69660

BTW: Anyone in ABQ remember the resturant Peter Pan's on Wyoming near Menaul (where the Burger King sits, near Furrs?)

A comment to this week's episode of LOST... Enter 7 7 Best laugh I've had all week

mike - Review Score: N/A out of 10 - March 8, 2007. locke didn't cause the fire, it was that damn bessy when she kicked over the bucket in the flame station. silly cow

I can't explain why I felt so desperate? It didn't fit with my normal PMS craziness. I'm not taking any new medicines. The sun is shinning??? I'm still worried... plan to see a doctor (but I'm pessimistic about any understanding there). Anyway... off to see some Rockabilly tonight! Yeah, first time in Madrid:-))))

Ah, nothing to yank you out of a depression than then hopeful though that one of your most annoying students will be expelled for accusing another students father of being an illegal arms dealer, posting it on the net no less!

Going to the gyno today. Should be interesting experience.

Help, please. My Hippocampus is shrinking... again. ............................................................................................
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I was dating Jonataion at the time. It was a fun an hopefull time.


The hight was seeing Squeeze live in Santa Fe, with Javi of all people. What a show.

I'm happy to say caught Glenn Tilbrook in NYC, and even hung around a chatted a bit. Avery amicable guy.

Thank god. Got in touch with a very nice friend from the 80s (Hi Peeetyer)... and it was so nice, through all of their musical involvement...to see them respecting the masters of our age.

I don't know if this fits... but this one, when it came out... said everything in between was ok. I had a new respect.


The mini tape I had in my truck.

Today, teaching vocabulary a unit on Usual and Unusualness.... first I downloaded "How Bizarre" by OMC something.... but between thinking of that, thinking of that apartment block slowly ramping up Central Avenue in 1987, while I ate a BLT & Egg sandwich with that cute guy at the Frontier, or the herd of Barnum and Baily elephants walking down downtown Albuquerque, and Pedro and I following on our bikes in 1993.... I still remember sitting in my miserable Moldovan living room, still thrilled, but befuddled to be there... having this bizarre bit of heaven come though the TV spectrum.... I blanket of hope caressed me....

God I hate my job!!!!

Hate the world, or the people in them? PMS'ing 16 days early? Then, don't go to El Rastro. Having spent most of this vacation locked in my dark little flat, this might not have been what I needed. I was looking to buy some abandoned kitties, or mice. 15 year commitment, or 1.5 years....

Kati, if you are listening... the people here walk slower than me! However, I did find two whole long streets with junk/bric-a-brack. the police were clearing lots out, and confiscating there blankets full of stuff.

Make sure to top your day off with downloading an upbeat Smiths album. Oxymoron???