Sunday, December 4, 2005

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Happy Holidays??

almost two weeks I have been receiving Christmas cards, which, if my nome fault calculations, this year Christmas has begun in mid-November. not that surprised me, because here, like the United States since November 1, spend the holidays without interruption (Halloweeen, Thanksgiving, Christmas ...). However, I arrive early congratulations from Spain, so it is easy to deduce that it is Christmas in the English Court.
I, however, I refuse to decorate the house before 14 December. I've always looking forward to the week before Christmas, when my parents rode the crib and placed the wreath on your door. Then, based on much urging my sister Cris and I reached the tree, and was gradually moving to Bethlehem as a symbol of Christmas. During the fortnight they remained in the room, the house had a special atmosphere. It was nice to get home after school and see the tree lit, as a prologue holidays, family gatherings and gifts. Now, since mid-November if it is ready all the trappings, I suppose will lose some of its effect, since for the December 24th everyone will be more than saturated trees, advertisements and nougat, perfumes and toys.

As I said, I'm cured of terror, and here is artínulos Christmas shops open all year. There is one in Quebec I recommend you visit if you have the chance (mind that Air France is offering cheap flights, or at least I have).

This week has been quite stressful, more mostly due to the move ("anyway?) by Michelle at my apartment. Although it sounds cliché, I can not help being astonished by the amount of useless junk that can accumulate the women for a year. We had to check three boxes of the 4th kilos each to his parents' house because my apartment could not be everything. Of the three closets in the house, I am left with the smallest and yet I have too much space. The rest, including lofts, have been occupied by clothes that have given a maximum of 6 months, if not I've seen towards this deadline, the donate to an NGO (is a mutual agreement, not an imposition. ...)

although it only had 4 days living together in this new situation, I think things are going to be fine. It's nice to see objects around the house that are not mine. The change I've noticed in the bathroom, where the sight of his robe hung beside the door behind me gives me a smile and a pleasant sense of shared home.

Yesterday we celebrated in their own way: Staying within ice skating. Yesterday inaugurated the Patinoire du Bassin Bonsecours in the Vieux Port de Montréal. There were from 9 am to 4 degrees below zero, and not returned until the spectacle ended at 21 hours. We stopped, yes, a couple of hours eat at Le Chalet, a barbecue chicken restaurant quite famous in Montreal and several times to take "chocolat chaud" and not falter. I have horrible tugging at the twins and the thighs, due to lack of experience in this sport. However, it is worth the fireworks offered at eight o'clock. The reflection of lights on the ice I caused a sensation, it must be because I associate with summer fireworks ....
I still think if you go home for Christmas or not. Two years I've been beaten. Maybe then I put it to Michelle to see if they have clearer ideas.

Friday, November 25, 2005

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Primeros días de nieve en Montréal y parece mentira que en este país una pequeña tormenta pueda causar tanto caos . Ayer tuve que suspender las dos primeras clases debido a que más de la mitad de los alumnos no pudieron llegar a tiempo. Menos mal que yo uso el metro y además son sólo dos estaciones. Me gustaría poder que cojo el metro hasta Beaubien (inside joke para los que conozcan a Beau Dommage ), pero no, yo lo cojo en Mont Royal o Sherbrooke hasta Berri-UQAM.
El metro de Montreal me encanta: amplios espacios, gente educada, nada de empujones.... nada que ver con el metro de Madrid, de infausto recuerdo. Solamente de pensar en el trayecto de la línea 6 every morning in my time as a college student makes my skin crawl.

Gone are the bike rides. I like this mode of transport, but to 7 degrees below zero and the frozen ground ... using the catchphrase that all my friends use in most post, going to be "no."

This week I received good news. On the one hand, the director of Department has confirmed that from January 1 next year I have secured my place. That is, I'm fixed, representing an increase of salary and workload. Is welcome. On the other hand, Michelle your landlord has advised that the December 1 leaves his apartment and comes to live with me. Just at the moment I began to raise the ride home, I open up new opportunities. to help more in the decision, I have received negative responses from three English universities where I had entered into the competition for a position of associate professor, so the thing is clear.
the moment, it is a winter aser queues poutine and beaver.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

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This morning when I wake up, I felt that I was forgetting something, or rather, that something in the depths of my memories was struggling to come to the surface.
I'm down to buy breakfast at McDonald's (though SuperSizeMe I can not help from time to time to sin by eating pancakes with maple syrup ...) and also the newspaper. Seeing the date on it, I've come all to memory.

No, I'm not talking about the obvious , but now exactly 16 years ago I started dating my first girlfriend "formal." Sixteen years .... easy to say, and yet, when I began to remember, seems like yesterday. Topic, right?. It's true. I remember with a mixture of tenderness and shame the way in which I declared a cold afternoon in November 1989, with her friends in the bank next door, giggling and comments that made us feel even more ashamed. I remember shooting that first kiss that seemed absurd, a bit forced, a view that she confirmed a few months later saying that it seemed that with that kiss, inexperienced and short, it seemed that we wanted to put a stamp on the words we had exchanged.

were almost five wonderful years, which were twisted when I went to study abroad for two years. We try to keep distance relationship, but it was impossible. Too many life experiences for me as she continued with her normal life. Whatever Erasmus can understand. When I returned, all my past life seemed routine, my friends, bored and my "girlfriend "..... Something had gone cold in our relationship and within months decided to break completely.

acknowledge that I have always kept a special affection, although I know for a fact that she ended up hating me. Today he is married and mother of two girls.

I hope it's happy and has overcome that hatred. Hopefully you remember the promise we made (those silly promises of teenagers) and now have a moment to remember how happy we were sixteen years ago.

Sunday, November 6, 2005

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Yes, I also participated in Halloween ....

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

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Today, Toussaint. A festive extranyo, because I get to work. Here I am in my office in a semidesert School. So I have given some thought to my situation: single, mid-thirties, with a life increasingly less espanyola Canadian government and with the job I always wanted, conducting a research on the subject that I like. ..
I leave some more clues, but I've escarmetnado. The last time I did all my students passed through the blog. Fortunately, or not speak espanyol learned too much, because no comment. I also think it was because it was exam time and did not want to risk that their bitter méchant professeur espagnol semester. In any case, I can say that my topic is federalism. To this I devote almost 10 Anyos of my life, with several publications in French and English, because no publisher wanted to publish espanyola (so far) my studies. Parenthesis that "so far" is on purpose. Since the Statute of Catalonia is on everyone's lips have received seven letters from publishers who try to retrieve the editing rights. Too late: I have transferred until 2010, so they will be negotiated with Les Presses de L'Université Laval. Anyway, if you publish my theories about it - I must say that my respected colleagues espanyoles not know at all - I think I attract more hostility than sympathy, and that put me in an uncomfortable middle that I think would be qualified Espanya of "warmth."
Along with these offers editorial, I have received proposals for work in Europe and Espanya. In Europe I have offers from Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and France, arranged according to my own interest. Espanya, I have offers from the Basque Country and Catalonia, which leads me to think that my views are consistent with the force of nationalism in these two communities. That is why I am not convinced: I dread the sectarianism that abounds in college espanyola. I have no intentions to leave Quebec over the medium term. I renewed my contract for another 4 semesters and possibly get a permanent position at the end of this period. However, I think next summer will accept the offer to work in a course at the University of Freiburg.

I read the article in El Pais on mileuristas and reminds me of the situation of many roommates in college with those who remain in contact. It is one of the reasons that prevent me from deciding to go back and try to continue my teaching career in my country. Af I have a good salary, some recognition of my work and my time and money for research. Now working on four research projects (two federal, one provincial and one shared with the University of Harvard) and I love the feeling of being overworked expermentados sharing work with teachers and true "sacred cows" in their respective fields of research . The "syllabus" that my students sharing contain the latest theories about the most recent and I am really proud of it. Nothing to do with the notes sobados and yellow that most of my professors (with two notable exceptions) we "lit up" in the Faculty.


Sunday, October 23, 2005

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend a conference that a famous professor and Catalan nationalist politician gave at the Université Laval in Quebec. I've already commented once that Quebec and Catalonia are "special relationship" and many Catalan politicians want to look in the mirror of "la belle province."
For the above, an important Catalan political scientist went through here and I traveled to Quebec to see it in your sauce. It is interesting to see how it changes the rhetoric of some politicians when they are in abroad and think that their compatriots are not the public.

I arrived early and, after booking a place in the front row, left to the hall where I saw the teacher and the cultural counselor of the Embassy English debated today with many Canadian teachers. Of course, the big issue was the Statute of Catalonia Nou.

the record, I am a strong supporter of federalism, but a well understood classical federalism (ie the Swiss or German). I think federalism has to be inclusive, as proposed by Carl Friedrich, and not that asymmetric federalism some nationalists Catalan and Basque proposed. Already, the term "asymmetric federalism" is specious. Everything tends to asymmetric federalism, as it seeks to integrate different policy areas into one. Suppose we want to unite a country A, which is oriented towards the sea, with a country B, fully inside, without costs. The needs of these two political entities are different and lesgislación affect them differently: the country can not assume competecias B on navigation or marine resource exploitation and to not have them, and country A will have less interest to assume responsibility for agriculture. This division of powers does not prevent federal state to work properly.
Well, at the conference elaborated a guest lecturer (in French) trying to flesh out the theory of "differential factor" that marks the essence of Catalunya and justify its establishment as a nation to the side and at the same level as Spain as the Parti Québecois has been calling on three unsuccessful referendums in their relationship with Canada.

is curious to see that Quebec and Catalonia are trying to reduce the impact of their claims for independence with reference to a supranational framework which are included thanks to the country which claims: first, defining as a "pays d'Amérique" and the second, claiming his close ties and his willingness to remain in the EU.

To sample how close are these two nationalisms, here's a recent opinion:

Robert Bertrand Québec


Le Pays du Québec, c'est l'objectif fondamental the Société québécoise, du peuple du Québec et de la nation québécoise.On veut notre Pays. Pour cette raison, we budget actuel du Québec qui est de quelque 60 milliards of dollars doit rester the hands of responsible people, capable of administering and to have a vision. The vision of the future, there are some who have to direct all Quebecers forward for increasingly complex and increasingly diversifiés.Il is a willingness to embrace the world and to assume new responsibilities in the world today. Quebec is able to carry his voice to the table of nations. We have a place that awaits us. It just depends on each and every one of us to be in nous.Maître master of our own destiny. Together we must take the next step in our national affirmation, that du Pays du Québec.Il faut juste qu'il faut poser les Gestes avec ceux et celles qui veulent nous and conduire.


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FIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO ALLOW UNDERSTAND WHY THE PARTY THAT WANTS QUEBEC QUEBEC IS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY
1. What does the Parti Québécois?
The Parti Québécois wants the Quebec is a sovereign country and has all the political, legal and prosecutors to be masters of their destiny. He wants the government to promote and defend the interests of the Quebec people to participate fully in international life, like other nations, a requirement which is more in the context of globalization of the economy. It should also be noted that Quebec is the only state in North America with a population mostly French and has a development model and specific institutions. This project is legitimate, the Canadian Supreme Court itself acknowledged this in August 1998 and Canada has the obligation to respect the decision of Quebecers if they respond "yes" to sovereignty.
2. Where does the project of sovereignty of Quebec?
Since the formation of Canada in 1867, there have always been self-employed people who believed that Quebec was not just a province of Canada, but was a people and a country should be. Lengthy negotiations undertaken in the sixties (60), seeking to amend the Constitution of Canada to recognize Quebec as one of the two founding peoples of Canada and give the necessary powers for development within Canada, have been a failure, even when the negotiations were led by Quebec federalists party favor that Quebec remains within Canada. The Parti Quebecois came to power in 1976 and held a referendum on sovereignty in 1980, obtaining 40.6% of the vote. In 1982, Canada amended its Constitution makes to Quebec without the agreement of the National Assembly. No political party in Quebec that Quebec has wanted to adhere to this Constitution. In 1994, the Parti Quebecois took power again and had a referendum in 1995, this time getting 49.4% of the vote. On November 30, 1998, the Parti Québécois was re-elected and formed a new government.
3. Why you always want to perform the Parti Québécois of Quebec sovereignty? Because no
problem has been solved or is being resolved. From the October 1995 referendum, despite the results show quite clearly the need to reform Canada, the central government in Ottawa has decided to maintain the status quo, leaving endure all the problems going on for forty (40) years . Moreover, this government multiplied attacks on Quebec and continues to intervene in the fields of competence of the Quebec wreaking havoc in the planning of public services. It also seeks to intimidate the population of Québec threatening not to recognize the results of another referendum, when Quebec's democratic behavior is beyond reproach and that finance laws and political parties are exemplary conduct of the referendum.
4. What Quebec Quebec who is considered?
Quebec nationalism is not ethnic but civic. All citizens living in the territory of Quebec is Quebec and their rights are also recognized. Quebec has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees equality of all citizens. The official language of Quebec is French and immigrants to send their children to French school. The English minority has a comprehensive public education system, from kindergarten to university and have access to all services in their language. There are laws guaranteeing their rights. The British community itself manages its educational institutions, health and social services and has several media in their language television and radio, newspapers and magazines. Regarding indigenous peoples, the Parti Québécois government in 1985 recognized the existence of 11 indigenous nations, their ancestral rights and their rights to self-government. Agreements and conventions have been concluded with a large number of nations with regard to the use of certain areas of Quebec and joint economic development projects, completing agreements on education and health. Negotiations are continuing.
5. Where is Quebec at the international level?
Already open to the world for their active participation in international life, present in international organizations, cooperation agreements and humanitarian aid and hopes to ensure the continuity of the Conventions now part with Canada. Participate in major international organizations. Free traders, but definitely very respectful of human rights, democracy and justice, will place its shares in a perspective of both economic and cultural development, social and democratic. His vision of globalization includes respect for the diversity of national identities languages \u200b\u200band cultures.


After the conference, Question Time was really a bad person, because I had the oportunidar of dismantling some of its arguments. And it was not difficult: just read your online edition of two or three English newspapers to get an objective and realistic view of the situation, and what this man said, should be read only "Journal" or "The Cutting Edge "


October 29, at the Université de Montréal is an event to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 1995 referendum, which reached 49.5 of the votes in favor of Quebec sovereignty. However, there are always the eternal questions: "The referendum should be carried out at regional or national? And what is most acceptable: 51%, 80 %...?
For this act (which costs $ 23) I'll come. Surely much of what is said there will hear from the lips of my favorite Catalan politicians by the end of the year.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

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raining. This morning I had to forget my Sunday stroll through the Vieux Port (the rain and the cobbles are not a good combination). I decided to prepare a meal according to the season and with some of the ingredients that my mother put me in your suitcase. Come on, let's list:

1 stick 1kg and calluses through
cured ham half boneless half Lacon
vacuum packed loin
1 1
peasant sausage
3 kgs of sausages
1 medium manchego cheese
1 / 2 of Idiazábal
1 / 2 de Cabrales
6 cans of beans litoral
1 bizcocho casero
2 botes de aceitunas
1 paquete de Cola-Cao
4 botes de mermelada casera (tomate, moras de zarza, calabaza y ciruela)
6 botellas de vino
y un montón de chucherías varias

Así que hoy, aprovechando que estoy solo, me voy a preparar unos callos con garbanzos acompañado de un buen Ribera del Duero.

Parece sencillo ¿verdad? Pues que sepáis que todo ésto me podría haber costado un buen disgusto en la Aduana. Ya comenté en alguna ocasión que los vuelos Direct from Spain are re-examined by Agriculture Canada staff with their friendly little dog pointer. I checked the rest of the flights are subject to random checks. This time, give yourself coming Amsterdam, I got rid of a good.

But still, worth in these rainy days of autumn English open a small plot in Montreal. When my apartment, so typically Montréalais, is impregnated with the smell of a cooked some lentils, a paella or a vintage crumbs (yes, I also cook), I will feel homesick and a little more comfortable in this city.

Today I feel a bit Carvalho, and I do not feel like cooking for one. Martin invite to dinner. He is already accustomed to the excesses of the English regional cuisine and I do not dislike the menu.


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With permission from Martin, I give you another view of Montreal, a much more reliable than mine ...:
It
Was An incongruous day. I emerged from my apartment to find the staircase Covered in dry, yellow leaves, and yet the temperature Stood at Nearly thirty degrees. As I ran my weekly errands, I felt impossibly sad, knowing that this is well and truly the last gasp of summer. There is no turning back now.
It is, as every Montrealer knows, harder to be alone in winter. The whole city retreats indoors, leaving its streets and parks to the snow. Warmth becomes a precious substance, one that is forever leaking out through the cracks in things, which are, suddenly, everywhere. Baseboard heaters struggle audibly, clicking and clanking without discernible effect. On certain days, even the Café is too cold to bear.
In winter, the smallest gestures of physical intimacy are survival techniques: the feet that share warmth under a blanket, the torsos that draw closer in sleep. As the warmest part of the body, the belly is transformed into a fetish object beneath its scratchy layers of wool. Extremities don’t stand a chance.
In sex, we become as modest as Victorians, finding our passions only under a mountain of bedclothes. If we are clever, we arrange ourselves in such a way as to create a hothouse, which recycles the heat of our breath until orgasm or oxygen depletion overcomes. There is simply no other way, as bodily fluids will freeze upon contact with air.
In the absence of sex, a Montreal bed is as cold as a grave. There is no love in this city in winter, only the will to live.
These are the thoughts that were with me today, until I met K. on our favourite terrasse. Defiantly, I drank a glass of sangria, which tasted as sweet to me as honey.

Saturday, October 8, 2005

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I returned to Montreal and I felt strange. It is not an easy feeling to overcome. Never in more than 10 years here had noticed that feeling of anxiety, of not belonging to this environment. Maybe it's because I've found very comfortable with my friends and my family in Spain or, and this is what most concerns me, because I'm about to close a cycle in my life. I'm drifting dangerously age 30 and I notice that my body asks for a change. But, blessed body, unable to send me a message.

I In this, as I try to retrieve a routine that made me happy before. Prepare my lessons, correct assignments and exams, direct dissertations and research projects and does not fill me as much. I'm a pretty dynamic, but lately (since I came back in mid-September) I'm getting carried away by apathy. Autumn is still gray, rainy and cold. When I read news of the drought in Spain, I almost feel envious to know that you are walking on the street still in short sleeves and some of my friends who is now in Murcia you can swim at the beach. The "été des Indiens" has been as spectacular as ever, become snow geese and the life "en plein air" in Montreal began to recede.

And I unable to enjoy it ....

all goes well with Michelle. This evening come home and stay with me for a fortnight. She and her family still in treatment, but he is going, little by little, leaving the painful introspection.

I left the blog apart with intent. In the beginning, when I created it, trying to overcome the homesickness that was causing me back to Montreal after the holidays (nothing to do w ith my current mood). I've always taken the blog as a public dialogue with myself, a sort of self-therapy very good, because here I can not irem cane with my best friend and put the world and our lives in one afternoon. My circle of friends is small, and apart from Michelle and Martin, I have no trustworthy people. Thus, often the fact of updating the blog and tell how I feel or what I'm hearing or without further describe what happened to me this morning has helped me appreciate all that story from a new perspective. That should be the function of my blog. I aspire, let alone, to always leave witty sentences or phrases that cause a flood of comments. In this regard, I have come two or three readers more or less constant (and whose blogs I plead avid reader) and I have plenty enough for me.

This small universe of blogs seems to be populated with beings with a tremendous desire for prominence. In a page I've found that the webmaster has banned my comments, and I can swear I've never been rude or inappropriate in it or anywhere else. I do not know why, but I have curiosity. I've seen blogs evolve from the most sincere intimacy to the most deceptive advertising, and I felt disappointed, the same way as if a friend had betrayed my trust. The contents of blogs almost always interested me. I do not claim that all that have to be true. In many senses that he writes it is creating a world to measure, but that is really positive and I'm attracted. Others try to make their vision of the world through metaphor, and also interest me. Those who start to miss are those in which the writer has been believing in possession of truth in direct proportion to the increase in visits. Everyone is free to do what he pleases with his blog, but my tastes do not go there.

For this reason, I stay on my line. Write when you have something to say is important or the most trifling of the world, without giving more importance to the content of these pages are not intended to be but a reflection of myself.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

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Yesterday I received a call from Michelle. In the hour of talk time (with this call Bell Canada has overcome its crisis) found evidence that Michelle always wants to come to the surface, despite the sadness that sometimes betrayed. He told me he misses me and thanked me very much how I behaved with her and her family during the London leg black. I, who believed that there was uss well below expectations and I felt guilty about not being able to help more .... These words were a true balsam.
After seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, I decided to show signs of life at work. I returned on 26 September with a PhD course and 4 semester. My head of department has been very, very understanding.

So I veulvo to Montreal to enjoy été des Indiens (Indian Summer San Miguel), with the beautiful show of fall colors, but before ...


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I have already tickets for two concerts. I leave Madrid on Saturday 17/09 to Brussels, do nights there at the house of one of my friends from the ULB, I see two concerts on Tuesday 20/09 and go by train to Amsterdam to catch a flight to Montreal. I have to fly with the worst company in the world (KLM), but well worth Vim Mertens 8 hours on a plane old, uncomfortable seats and flight attendants to retire early point of pulling the trays above the undersigned.

Monday, August 22, 2005

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For those of you who, unfortunately, a small town do not have to go, when you have the opportunity, I suggest that you take out a little experiment: They are simply trying to pass unnoticed. Easy? Then you have no no idea what life is like in a population of less than 500 inhabitants.

In the peak week in the village was rediscovered several concepts. The first is that however hard they tried, I could never be recognized as one of them. And could move to live there forever that all would be "Madrid" or, as I heard "the son of the Schillings living in America." Canada is a concept too abstract for most and that does not pack. What good is living in Argentina or Mexico, as some of the migrants from the village, and come every two years to wear jewelry and currency.

For the record I have tried to integrate myself (in fact I have already recovered some old friends), but my attempts to pass one of my family tradition valiéndome have always failed. The fact that my parents emigrated to Madrid, instead of printing character, remove it. In the eyes of all, I'm already in Madrid for all purposes and although my mother's family had settled in the seventeenth century in that town, these 3 centuries of tradition are worthless:

Perhaps this has something to do with people's reactions when I went to one of the shops to buy, looks up and down and not very sneaky whispers to find out "who I am." As I said in another post, I know the answers I give, but, interestingly, the neighbors of my mother's age take descent through the physical resemblance and the height. The act of measuring a tad over 2 meters does not help blend into the environment .

Saturday, August 13, 2005

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Back when others leave, is priceless. I've seen the deductions in the N-VI from the other side and it took me less than two hours in transit. Nothing comparable to the four hours it took us to my father 4L.

Here I am back, after a week of searching for lost roots. I read at home, I heard all the music you wanted and have regained contact childhood friends who grew more than 20 years have not seen.

Skip call this week at my grandparents house has sparked many memories. The first few days I found myself remembering words like "SOBRAO," "quadroon," "sunshine ".... No shortage of toasted pine nuts gave me my grandmother's neighbors, ueno, the two that remain, and much older but completely lucid and dynamic. It was they who forced me to go for a ride to the cemetery on Sunday morning to remind me of my maternal family tree.

The town still has two grocery tiends and one bar (no many entertainment options) for which I spent the Saturday morning, beating my proverbial shyness. The truth is that I surprised myself because l to bar entrance was epic. Swing doors just missed the far west style, because once I passed the threshold, all bystanders were turned to look me up and down. I could almost read their minds: "What is lost here the stranger will it?".

Luckily, my cousin was there, just that is my age and with the best relationship I ever had. He was very changed, seeming much older in which has, with his huge hulk and calloused hands of farmers. Quickly recognized me and called me to voices from the bottom of the bar. I've never more pleased to see a familiar face. There were also two other members of the gang that got together in the summer. Despite the time elapsed, it was easy to recognize. Together we had a good time and I was glad to see they remembered most of our little adventures, especially the battles and castles were built with the bullets removed paja.Me colors to remind some of my blunders of boy city \u200b\u200bin the village and had no choice but to accept their invitations to lunch and dinner.

Otherwise, I got up early to go running through the pinelands, I repeated the excursionists to the source of the picnic, I bought the white bread the next town, I ate the best lamb in the world and have come to the evening apse through the empty streets lit by yellow bulbs, for which only heard the sound of the fountains and the distant echo of a TV.

I was also excited to open the chest in the courtyard and find some of my childhood toys: tennis rackets, an electric train, the suction gun. Lueo, in closets, I found letters from my grandparents, my uncles and my mother's letters to my grandparents, especially the first Once moved to Madrid. I tender the formulas are typical of the times ("I rejoice that, upon receipt of this, they are both well," his daughter that he wants to .."), and the tips of my grandparents on my mother the "big city." In these lines are names like ghosts, translucent creatures who only live and in my memories, which are borrowed from the conversations of my uncles. No shortage of photos, including the first to send my mother to her parents when my father and she were dating formal. There are two, with the bottom Cibeles, perched on a scooter that would delight any fan of Quadrophenia mod ....


Friday, August 5, 2005

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Prepare the trip to the people reading backward and lots of good music. On these occasions, Wim Mertens has never failed me. Recently I could buy some CDs that had been years looking for: Tetralogy of "Gave Niets van" and the trilogy of "Alle Dinghe." I like to hear this music in solitude, at dusk or dawn. Has always managed to give me a sense of peace, especially a piece: "Tot" Alle Dinghe. The album's title is taken from a poem of the thirteenth century Flemish mystic:

Alle
dinghe
Sijn my inghe you;
so wijt Ic ben!

That current is passed into Dutch as:

Alle dingen (All things /

zijn zo klein (they are so small /

en ik zo vrij. (And I'm so free)

The translation loses much, but the message is clear, that is the spirit that would inspire in my life now. No doubt I am going through a stage too important (and even pedantic), but I think it hurts me to pause on the way, recap and begin to redistribute the priorities.

Wim Mertens's music is hard to classify. Began being labeled as minimalist. Spain, Ramon Trecet the pigeonholed in what he call "new music." I do not get to fit it in anything. I just know that makes me positive feelings.

The titles of the four albums Gave Van Niets always seemed curious:
Honestly, I recommend it. However, if you want to introduce you to the music of this composer, I recommend something less dense, as the "Struggle for Pleasure", "Motives for Writing" (very appropriate title for bloggers) or any parts of "Jardin Clos."
few days I will be disconnected from the world, except that the people have installed an Internet cafe, which I doubt.

Thursday, August 4, 2005

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No titles. This is a post real transition. I'm home again which means back to see my parents, my sisters, my friends, no time to see everyone, eat two to three times, dinner and take so many countless cafes bars always . Who wants to see me, you have to make an appointment. I'm catching on left for breakfast. Many old friends, little time and lots to tell is a dangerous mix.
I again reached the Madrid de los Austrias, a little dirtier and emptier than usual. He missed the iced tea with peppermint Café del Nuncio , reeds in "The Beefeater Tavern" and have found at least Ten small restaurants that are worthwhile.
My friends are still teasing me indefinite acentillo always bring a souvenir, a former girlfriend is still remembered me (for good) and luckily, dark and dreary day in London seem a distant nightmare.

But still there .....


I can not help but feel guilty about feeling happy, when I know that, far from here in a small coastal town in Canada, Michelle and her family still in a deep, dull ache. I talk to her every day, trying to convince her to come to Madrid a few days and sometimes seems that there is a possibility, but it will be difficult.

Tomorrow I'm going to town alone. I want to recover the pure dawn of Castile, the silence of the night, the deserted streets lit by a yellow light bulb. I want to get the wake up at 7 with the rumor of herds that cross my street, go out and buy the white bread from the baker next village, eating the pine nuts that I still keep the neighbors of my grandparents, cover myself with a blanket night live without television. The latter is one of the greatest achievements of my grandfather always said he did not want that thing in your house and respect its will. I remember as a kid, when came to town after a trip that seemed to me very long, I spent two or three days protesting clowns can not see on TV, the "One Two Three" and drawings. Then as soon as I met with friends of the people (what will become of them?), I forgot the TV to the point that, after the summer, the tedious afternoons off in Madrid made me even more unbearable in the classroom, from programs that at first both missed.

My mother told me that there is still the radio that my grandfather bought in the fifties, a relic against which we sat at night listening "for the party." I remember there in the cupboard, awesome in its wood finish and ivory buttons, next to the Singer sewing machine from my grandmother. In the background the carillon, whose touch of hours at night scared me so much that my grandparents had to disconnect so I could sleep.

will also be the "glory" wood stove that was used both for cooking and for heating the iron with coals. ! What a delight in winter to sit in the kitchen and the smell of burning dried pineapple!

over ten years since the town floor. I have to stand the test of do you of who you are?, Which so embarrassed and discomfort caused me a child:

- And this young man, "Who is it?
- My name Arkimir
- You are a stranger right?
- I do not know (what will that be a stranger? That's what they say in Indian movies!)
- Oh, how funny! Did not he does not know if a stranger?. You must be of Velones right?
- Who are the Velones?
- So who will it be? Zorreras nephews, those who went to Madrid.
- ......
- do you have your tongue cat? What more cortico boy you are!
- My mother called my father Ramon Angelines and
- Go!, You are the grandson of the Schillings, the era of big?
- I do not know, my grandmother called Angeline, like my mother.
- Well, that's what I'm saying, Thou art the Madrid Shillings. Oh, I do not know what the capital who have come all as if you had taken a breath.


now speak the local dialect and you know who I am. The presentations will be much shorter.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

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Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi

This is the title song of which I spoke yesterday. It is a religious song performed by a chorus of Melanesia (Solomon Islands, I think). I do not like too liturgical songs, but this has the advantage of being read in pidgin-Inglés and do not understand anything (at least I can not but sense the content.)

There's another song "God Tekem LAEF Blong Yu Mi" also manages to evade me a little of this environment so empty where I am. In this regard, I think he plays back home. For days I do not see Michelle (still with his parents in Summerside) and I have no mood for anything. I've taken my share of the seminar and by that I'm going to get a ticket to return to Madrid with my family. This is the best treatment.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

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The thin red line I'm not bilingual

One of balm I've found to face the world again is this piece of Hanss Zimmer for the soundtrack of "The Thin Red Line."

The film caught my attention by the brutal contrast between the action and the environment: a slaughter amid an unforgettable paraíso.Escenas como la del isleño que se cruza al pelotón americano, totalmente ajeno a ses montón de hombres blancos, armados hasta los dientes y a los que no dedicó ni un segundo de su atención. Recuerdo también que , en medio de una batalla sangrienta, la cámara desviava el foco de la acción hasa unanimal o una planta, rompiendo los esquemas típicos de cualquier película bélica.

Recuerdo también algunas frases que ahora me vienen sin remedio a la mente:

" This great evil--where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of What We Might Known? Does Benefit Our ruin the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you too? Have You Passed Through This Night? "

These questions are those that are asking the families of those who have lost their people in the London bombings, Baghdad, Madrid, etc.

Another phrase more disturbing and I'm still hanging around:

"One man looks at a dying bird and Thinks There's Nothing But unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man That Same bird Sees, Feels the glory, Something Feels Smiling Through it. "

Meanwhile, I keep hearing that song that gets me out of reverie in which I am immersed in the last couple of weeks

Monday, July 25, 2005

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listen carefully, so many years thinking that was bilingual and now I can not follow a treatment piscológico in French and English.

Fortunately, Argentine psychologists are everywhere.

Who would not be comforted because they do not want

Thursday, July 21, 2005

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Only last night I found myself lost

Only last night I found myself lost / By the King's Cross station Called

This time the red backpack itself was ours. DNA tests are irrefutable ....

We get to Montreal with the spoils of a life cut short for no reason I know well.

was not too many tears. Since there were few.

We got to Michelle and I recognize the unrecognizable. Since I can not ever be the same.


'm confused, hurt, angry, tired. I feel hatred



not me.

A huge void has insalada around us. Words condolences go as far and are useless.

One would feel like to be left slowly eat away the pain, own or someone else.


could not recognize the happy family I met a few months ago in the blurred shadows of a father, mother and sister who now wander through London collecting the necessary permits to move a coffin that carries no body inside.

life and not make any sense.


aimlessly because I write how I feel.


do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, I do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, not I understand, I do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, do not understand, I do not understand

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

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No news, good news

Sadly, British aphorism has become the hope many of the people that I pass by the office of attention to the family. All those with whom I had the opportunity to speak are eager to hear, but they fear, rightly, that when I appointed over the PA the only thing they will present the effects Personal of the loved watching the 6 days leading.

This Manyana we had a very unpleasant experience. Seem to have a huge database of clothing and objects that could cause potential victims at the time of the attacks. According extracted objects King's Cross they cross the findings with the database. Today has been called the father of Michelle to see if the red backpack they found could belong to Stephen. There have been five minutes of real awe. Fortunately ("no news, good news") was not his. However, those who marked "red bag" in the questionnaire have been through this time, until one they recognize. For them, the search is over.

Michelle's mother is going through a stage of denial. Has assembled the theory that Stephen and his cousins \u200b\u200bare on vacation outside the United Kingdom and not occurred to them to call. We dare not contradict him.

Michelle is increasingly self-absorbed. Sometimes it seems to wake up and have an outbreak of anger that surprised me. Two officials discussed yesterday and led a mutiny pequenyo with family members of other potential victims to demand more información.He tried it out of the vicious circle office - embassy Canada - hotel, but without success. Yesterday, when we went to sleep, I saw that the room you have given has twin beds. He made no gesture of bringing them together, as usual and I really felt an intruder in the dense landscape of others' pain. However, around midnight, got up and came to my bed. I hugged and fell asleep. I'm not exactly short, and the bed is a fair bit me, but I managed not to move and let her rest. The rhythmic feel her breath on my chest made me feel useful for the first time since I've been here. In return I've seen them all hours of the clock until 7 a. Minimal effort for all that is past her and her family ...

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

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The London I never wanted to visit

I have only been in London a couple of times before it. The first, on a trip I made to visit a Erasmus roommates during my time as such. After a weekend trip to go to the wedding of some friends. On neither occasion had time to delve too deeply into the essence of the city. I saw many things, but none long enough to let me print. I remember with particular Carinya is that, at last, I visited the 212 b Baker Street and take a picture in front of the plaque in memory of Arthur Conan Doyle stood there, the residence of my favorite character.

I think this time will be less enjoyable ...

I arrived early at Gatwick this Manyana. Michelle was waiting for me there. I found the thinner, haggard, with bloodshot tear both mourn. We have said nothing. we embraced and we've gone directly to the office that have mounted near King's Cross. Today began to remove bodies from the car.

I was surprised by the apparent normality in the city that lives after an attack. I've seen some candles, flowers, cards, but I think when Diana of Wales died, there were more demonstrations of grief. I went to have coffee with Michelle's father. I think the wearer is worse. It has not gone to sleep any night at the hotel. Only passes to shower, change and back to the office to see what's new. This office has so much personal, and it seems that has been in operation Anyos. I am told, was assembled in just 8 hours.

Then when we went to make the round in the afternoon, I saw that handle a lot of folders with missing dossiers. I can assure that there are over 45.

Everything is going very slow. So much for the nerves of the family of Michelle. And I, here in the middle as the unwelcome guest, helplessly.

I have fear of clogging. Maybe I should not have come. It is too intimate a moment for me, do not stop being a newcomer, is present. guess Ms.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

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There is still no guarantee. King's cross

a common theme in thousands of blogs around the world, but sometimes and it is confirmed that the comfortable routine that privilege to live a minority of the inhabitants of this planet is nothing but pure fiction . Have I ever mentioned here how much I struggle to understand the people who live as if we were immortal, as if our actions have no consequences for future generations. I know that most of us use the routine as a shield to ward off mental metaphysical concerns as well have with the everyday. However, sufficient that a band decides to stop mindless people who do not even know with the most random and indiscriminate effort to acquire new awareness of our own fragility.
Meanwhile, Michelle's brother and his cousins \u200b\u200bare still missing. She and her parents are in London. I spoke with her four short minutes. Do not feel like talking, not the blame. You feel overwhelmed and think that their parents are worse. This morning have gone through the office where it is centralizing all claims of the families affected by the attack failed.
Despite the brevity of the conversation, it has not enough time to tell me he loves me and that missing me. I have already booked a ticket for Tuesday.

Saturday, July 9, 2005

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too I have no desire to write, but I need it. These days I have brought to mind the 11-M and am frantic for unanswered calls to all phones in my family. Were hours of anguish until at last I knew they were all fine. This time I'm touched me, but Michelle. His brother Stephen is doing an internship at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in London this summer from June to September and are staying with cousins \u200b\u200bin King's Cross. We've no news either from him or Michelle's cousins \u200b\u200bfrom the day of the attack. No answer at home or on mobile. Michelle and parents left today for London. I will go on Tuesday or Wednesday if there is no news.

wander around the house and I can only drink water. I can not get food and I have wanted to mourn. In my CD, you hear over and over again the Pet Shop Boys song that, tragically, it adapts well to the circumstances ...


The man at the back of the queue WAS sat
To feel the smack of firm Government
Linger by the flyposter, for a fight
It's the Same Story Every Night
I've been hurt and we 've Been Had
You leave home, and you do not go back
Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee
Only last night I found myself lost
By the station called King's Cross
Dead and wounded on either side
You know it's only a matter of time
I've been good and I've been bad
I've been guilty of hanging around
Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee
So I went looking out today
For the one who got away
Murder walking round the block
Ending up in King's Cross
Good luck, bad luck waiting in a line
It takes more than the matter of time
Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee
Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee
And there's still no guarantee
There is still no guarantee.


Por todos los que han perdido a alguien en los atentados de Londres.

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

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God Bless America / Gora San Fermin

No, no soy pamplonica, pero este año July 7 marks the start of my little vacation interval between the "gateways" (summer courses for students of different specialties to access other modules) and seminars. Tomorrow Thursday is the closing session of the seminar (a success, really) and I will enjoy the dolce far niente for three days. Will be a weekend of fireworks, barbecues, film update .... all with Michelle. We took a week without seeing and already I was getting very long.

On Tuesday I had an opportunity of going to the party that gives the U.S. embassy every July 4. Not that this is a VIP or anything like that. Just met an American my first year in the dorms at UQAM and I enrolled in a register to attend this summer's U.S. national holiday. Then I continued to receive these invitations on time every year, so that's where I slipped and I stood at her party. Of course there were Coca Cola for everyone and something to eat. There was a lot of cute girls, or alone or accompanied, but had fun in the company of my American friends, who, unfortunately, I only see a couple of times a year. We finished at the many, very prejudiced based Labatt bleue , singing in Aux Deux Pierrot s a difficult mixture of traditional songs mejicoespañolasestadounidenses. I edge (or at least that I remember) that song "I'm still the reeeey" and the ineffable "Clavelitos" with two bottles of beer instead of tambourine. Hispanic wit .... Pathetic.
This small parenthesis innocent and well meaning partying too did not affect my work as coordinator of the seminar. Of course, the next day I took a quiet place away from the table of speakers where I fear to decapitate a sueñecillo.
In short, between one thing and another I have a real need to pull a few hours sleep and catch up on housework. In confidence I tell you that tomorrow I will use my last ironed shirt and my fridge seems the window of a store in the USSR in the Brezhnev era.
I do not even half a lemon is the typical dry bar any self-respecting English.






Sunday, January 2, 2005

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ZONADEARTE, active since 2004, located in Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires, multidisciplinary space, housing projects in the sartorial design, order, mail art, installations, performance art, urban interventions, visual and sound poetry. ZONADEARTE is a self-funded space, this makes it difficult many times the power house, with our meager budget, international festivals as we were doing so far. Between April and June 2005 conducted the first performance art festival, "ZONADEARTENACCION 05" fotoperformance, video performance, Performances and urban interventions. The venues were the School of Fine Arts in Quilmes, Street and University City itself, then we have the presence of talented international artists and prominent artists.
In 2006, thanks to the participation in the organization co Nelda Calixto Saucedo Ramos and Osvaldo more collaboration Giesso Joaquin Amat and Varelenses Artists Association, who this time offered their facilities to perform actions took place the second international festival "ZONADEARTENACCION 06", attended by more than 20 national and international artists.
In April 2007, was conducted performance exchange with the center of art actuel in Quebec "LE LIEU" exchange was made possible by ongoing communication between Zonadearte Gabriela Alonso and Richard Martel Le Lieu.
performative In this last meeting we saw in the spaces Reconquista Giesso and exchange in a total of 22 artists from the following countries: Canada, Argentina and Cuba

HISTORICALLY ZONADEARTE has undergone several transfers seeking improved and sustained over time

2004/2005 Standing in front of apathy ZONADEARTE born April 23, 2004 in Tucumán Street in the city of Quilmes.

2006
Since the economic crisis that we are subjected daily to the end of 2005, calls others to hold zonadearte. Besides
Nelda Ramos and Mariana Ferrarotti who during the 2005 cycle were collaborating with the space we decided to incorporate the discipline of design clothing, and objects and include them on a commercial basis in order to subsidize. Zona Boutique
Goldwyn, adding the project Flavia Paravisi
That area did not work as we expected having to give low end of that year.

2007
moving to recover area Benito Perez Galdos 1130, Quilmes (cp 1878) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The boutique is transformed into designer occasional fairs, always with the designs of Flavia, Mary, Constance, Elizabeth and other young designers. Advance in the area of \u200b\u200bresearch and exchange, the backbone of ZONADEARTE