Scenes from a wedding

> Maria and i had a blast at the wedding. I'll post pics at some point. Right now i am in recovery mode and then must pack. It never ends. The place was almost two hours away in Ayllón. It was  all old ruins of buildings and was stunning. The food was top notch. It was a wonderful day. Tim and Laura were so happy and had guests from all over the world. 


>Andy Murray wins the gold in tennis at Wimbeldon. Nice job, Great Britain. 


>The Paterno Family is appealing the NCAA sanctions against Penn State. Give it up! Joe Paterno was not great. He was not a saint. He cared more about the fucking football program than he did about a grown man forcibly fucking boys. Fuck you, Paterno Family. Joe Paterno was a monster and a coward for admitting nothing of his complicity before he died. Shameful! I intend to enjoy the next 4 years of seeing the PSU program gutted. I smile every time i see another high profile transfer out of PSU. I have a friend of a friend here who i unfriended from BookFace because she was always getting on her soap box defending Joe Pa and PSU. Fuck you, apologists. Fuck you, Penn State. You should be banned from NCAA Division 1 football FOREVER. If i never hear about Penn State again it will be too soon.

postcard

My dear friend, Laura Kelley is getting married to Tim Stannard today. I'll meet Maria at 5:30 and we'll take the bus. And then, in essence, my time here has come to an end. Everything ends.


And then something new begins.


I was married once (as you all know.) This is my first wedding since Sue and I got divorced. I didn't even realize that until 2 minutes ago. So obviously, things are fine. 


Laura's getting married! I love her so much. In the end, i am a big mush. I am a big puddle of emotion. I love you all so very much. So here's my e-postcard of this moment. Besos.


Time to get all gussied up!

The Rapture

How I prayed just to get away

To carry me anywhere

Sometimes the angels punish us

By answering our prayers

-Rush

No one tells me anything. I think there are now 2 new people living here, one in the living room. Dumb and Dumber were at Eduardo's parents last night. Two new people moved in yesterday and they never even warned me. So now i think Maracondes is going to share a room with Eduardo so that will make 5 people and one bathroom. And the two of them are always in the bathroom, always. It's disconcerting. But i'm out of here. I'm in the wind baby! 

Maracondes was just mopping at 1:45 am. Truly he is special needs. He mops every day. It's an obsession. They are both so OCD. 

Wedding mañana and then i'm virtually out of here. It is time to go. I look forward to never thinking of these morons again after Wednesday.

I am reading The Rapture by Liz Jensen. It's great. Haunting. Freaky. 

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before?

The Garden

In the fullness of time

A garden to nurture and protect

(It's the measure of a life)

-Rush

Last class - done!

My students threw a surprise party for me and gave me a new 2012 - 2013 Atlectico Jersey. Que bien!

So much emotion. On both sides of the Atlantic. But what if i don't belong in either Europe or North America. What if i'm incontinent?

The time of doing

13:26

"Two of us Sunday driving. 
Not arriving. On our way back home.
 We’re on our way home. 
We’re going home."
-The Beatles


How in the name of all that is unholy did i accumulate so much stuff? How i ask you? I will give away more clothes than i will bring home. 


Details- I leave Madrid at 10:35 on August 8. I arrive at JFK at 19:40. Leave my house at 7:00, get to Mum's about 21:30. That's about 14.5 hours of transit. Ugh! But Carolyn and Sarah will be on the same flight. Hooray!


My last full moon in Madrid has come and gone.


Okay, Jay. Less typing, more doing. 




Flying the coop music
Herd of Instinct - Herd of Instinct
Clockwork Angels - Rush


- - - 


USA! Now with healthcare, but soon without the Post Office. My Pop would be pissed. He was in the Post Office for years and years.


Bart's been raptured and his crap's been craptured
-Homer Simpson


Oh how i wish someone would Crapture my stuff back to CT.


15:15




Time goes by in slow motion. So, this is what Maria and i are giving Tim and Laura along with cash. 


Remember, Laura is from Texas. And yes, that's a riding crop.

Maria and i just aren't the type to give you a toaster. I don't care how they use them. That's up to them. And Tim will either thank us or curse us. I can live with that.

Everytime I see your face
I think of things unpure, unchaste.
I want to fuck you like a dog,
I'll take you home and make you like it.

-Liz Phair

I think i'm going to have to take two bags with me. I can spread out the cymbals between the two bags. 


17,000 page views for the site. Damn!

the Last Err Bender

July 31st


Ansonia 76 F
Madrid 98 F


Sign me up for CT!


Aug 1


15:01


A week from now. at this exact time, i will be in limbo - not in Spain, not in CT.


Last night, the last Bender Tuesday, was crazy. Some of my students came and it was great.


Aug 2


I got about 2 inches cut off of my hair and i now look rather employable. 


Got to really get down to the nitty-gritty with cleaning today. And pack up all the clothes i'm going to donate.


The big wedding is on Sat. Maria is my date. It will be a blast. American Laura is getting married. Well, i'll be damned. 

Closer to Home

The Last Bender Tuesday


I'm getting closer to my home
-Grand Funk Railroad


Playlist:
Alchemy - Dire Straits
Alladin Sane - David Bowie
Pack up the Plantation - Tom Petty
Communique - Dire Straits
Dire Straits - Dire Straits


+The US Postal Service is set to run out of money next year. That won't be problematic.  
+I am returning to my home continent in 8 days. The US government has not informed me that they have any problem with this, to date.
+Much laundry done lately and i am now about to seperate stuff into 2 piles; a) what i will bring b) the much larger what i will donate pile. 
+Have not been sleeping well at all. My mind is tapestry of cobwebs.


I said goob-bye to another student yesterday, one of my 1st private one's who refered me so many people. It was very emmotional. I think August will be a very emmotional month. Good-byes and hellos.