The Window Thru The Window

View from my flat

The Window Thru the Window

I.

Where the hell am i? It looks like home but it's not. The sunlight looks the same. Im looking through the window. The buildings are all wrong - too old. I've been here before. For a long time maybe. Familiar yet foreign. Terrifying really. It looks real but somehow, it's not. At least i don't think it is. There's something about the shadows and light that's untrue. It's like looking at something's reflection in a large calm pool of water. It's accurate but not real. I close my eyes for a moment and open them, but it's still there. I see it but not clearly. Not actually. And it feels like the blood in my veins has stopped. Like my lungs are taking in air but I'm not getting any oxygen. I open the window and I immediately know something's wrong. There's a bright light and a whirring in my ears. I suddenly feel like someone's punched me in the ribs. I can't breathe. The pain is brutal. The tears run down my eyes. I can't get a breath. It's like the calle below is breaking into tiny particles and then it dissolves before my eyes. My ribs are broken and the pain is excruciating, electric and pulsing. Everything goes white. All sound has evaporated. Where the hell am I? Things go red, and then black.

This is a new experiment which i call a 'blog novel,' which will come out like a serial in pieces. I just thought i'd try to spice the blog up a bit. Stay well!

Jueves!

More classes! Whew! Ready for this week to be over. Only one class manana. Let the weekend begin! It was so cold yesterday i thought i was going to die! All else is copacetic. Also, the cover image from this book is the best novel i have ever read about the Spanish Civil War.

saintly

I've got sunshine in my stomach

like i just rocked my baby to sleep

-Genesis

4 Viking turnovers! Wow. 6 fumbles and 2 INT's in the game. A too many men in the huddle penalty and then Favre throws a pick when he could have run to set up a winning FG. It was an awful play. It might cost him his last trip to the Super Bowl. It's 4:15. Must ... go ...to ...sleep. Saints are in field goal range. Just kick the damn ball and win so i can go to bed. But i don't work til 13:00. 40 yarder. It's good. Ha! I wish i was there to lick Brett Favre's tears. He cost them a Super Bowl appearance! Atleti lost to Getafe and the Jets lost to Indy, but Minnesota lost, and that's good enough for me.

My new class was cancelled because a student was sick, but i still got paid half for a late cancellation. So it goes. Last lunes in Enero, which means that it soon will Febrero. My sister will celebrate a milestone birthday and the Mum will not believe she could be this old. I miss all that fun family stuff.

Euthanize Favre

Okay. So i was wrong about the Jets. Peyton Manning has hoof and mouth disease.

Go Saints! We can't let that red neck, serial retiree, numb nut, charlatan, Brett Favre go to another Super Bowl.

Oh when saints go marching in

Oh when saints go marching in

Oh how i want to be in that Rumba

When the Saints go over there

Oh over there!

-Homer Simpson

Championship Weekend

The best week of football because sometimes the Super Bowl sucks.

My picks; Jets over Colts
Saints over Vikings

Crazy? Maybe. But no crazier than governments ignoring global warming and the fact that Cher still has a job.

But first, Atletico vs. Getafe at 19:00. Then Jets/Colts at 21:00 and Farve/Saints at 00:30! Yee Hoo!

Back to normal?

Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head

Always the summers are slipping away
-Porcupine Tree

Lunes (as in lunatic)

Rough day. A few classes canceled. Not for good, but still a pain in the balls The telephone and the Internet won't work. Just one of those days. But warmer. It was mid 50's F today. Life is just exhausting sometimes.


This is the end
My only friend....the end
Can you picture what will be
so limitless and free?
Desperately in need
of some stranger's hand
in a desperate land
-The Doors

Martes (as in Mars; the Bringer of War)

There was no hot water to shower this morning as they were putting the new water heater in. Bollocks!

Another class canceled. We'll make it up on Thurs.

At least the damned know one thing - they're damned
-El Dude

Miercoles

A new class today. Sisters, mid and late 20's. One's an accountant and the other is a doctor. They were referred to me by Elena, another private student. Nice gals. Very bright. I've done this 50 times already. New students - always interesting. It was really fun.

Internet came back last night. Orange turned it off even though we hadn't received a bill in 2 months, and Don had called. It's like the blind leading the stupid here. Everywhere maybe.

Time for sleepiness. Make up class manana at 8:15. Ugh! But that's alright. I love class with Monica. She's been a student for over a year now. I know so many people here. I teach, therefore i am. It's only 4C and wet. It will be 9C tomorrow and sunny. It should be a nice day.

Big game for Atleti tomorrow. It's the quarter finals of the Copa del Rey. They are playing Celta Vigo, from the north and a second division team. They had a thrilling 5-1, 2nd leg win against Recreativo Huelva last week to advance on aggregate, 5-4. Huelva is also a second division team.

Jueves

Never trust Massachusetts. The election of Scott Brown is a stiletto to the kidney of the health reform bill. I don't know how much it would have changed things, but it would have been better than nothing. Hearings to discuss booting Massachusetts out of the Union begin next Tuesday, led by myself.

The case against Massachusetts

• They replace Ted Kennedy with a newbie Republican that spells the end of Health care Reform
• They started all of the problems with the British in the 17oo's; See Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party,
  
• Pat Smith resided there for many years
• David E. Kelley, who unleashed such plagues upon us as The Practice, Boston Public, Ally McBeal
• They don't sell beer on Sunday
  
• The Red Sox
  
• They are just a bunch of Massholes

Viernes

Caught up on some much needed sleep. Woo hoo!

The humidifier i bought two years ago has saved my life. Our heat is electric and dryer than the Mojave Desert. My face was so dry i was like a mummy. But the humidifier and moisturizer has saved me. The weather has been warmer, like 50 during the day, which isn't bad at all.

Tonight i had pizza with American Laura and we watched The Invention of Lying. It was funny. Tomorrow i'll see Cara.

Sabado

Trying to clean up my Mac's hardrive. 210 GB of space used! WTF. I must have a lot of MP3 duplicates.

My work schedule changes yet again on Monday. Now i have to go to Tres Cantos (up north by bus, 4 days a week). But, it's work.

Time to publish this lengthy missive

The weekend fades....

Plaza Castilla en la noche

Viernes

It's no concern of theirs

The world outside

Corrupts my child

So trust these eyes

-Porcupine Tree

Well, I had my meeting with PLT. The HR person at Liberty is bonkers and they cancelled, through no fault of Jason's nor mine own, Celia told us. The good news is that there is another class way up at Tres Cantos which is 20E and 3 hours a week, except that it screws up the time for my later classes. The juggling act never ends. Joder!!!!!

Don is screaming at Orange (Telephone / Internet provider) because the Internet is slower than tortoise covered in honey and because they are not sending us our bills. They said they can't send us our bills until we pay the bill. WTF? Madness i say. Madness!

I'll figure it out. I always do. Somehow. I like Celia. She's the only one i work for these days. Otherwise i work for myself, 14 hours a week, 7 with her.

Domingo

The vices and the doubt

We resist

All this shit

So kneel, submit

-Porcupine Tree

I think we have a new guitarist - Fernando. And we recorded low quality versions so i can memorize the breaks. We should be gigging in a few weeks. This would mean we would be a regular UN band with members from the USA, Scotland, England, Germany and Spain. Whew!

Last night was Rob's Bday at J&J's. We dressed like it was a wake because he was turning 41 (not funny). I wore a tie for the 1st time in i don't know when. But actually it was hilarious. Pics to come.

Go Jets! Go Dallas! I hate the Cowboys but i hate Brett "i retire more often than Sugar Ray Leonard" Favre more.