RURAL

Been all day at the country house a bit hangover.
Great BBQ: Lamb chops, ibérico pork sirloin and thin beef steaks.
Dozed at the rear porch, watched a chapter of The Mighty Boosh and finally had a good siesta.
After siesta started reading "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", the first twenty pages make you hate the main character, have to go further and see if it changes.
Dug a trench for the aromatic herbs for mum: Thyme, Rosemary, Oregano, Mint, Parsley and Lavender.
We have got a turtle.I like turtles but the earth ones, i had one when i was a child but one day it dissappeared...Pepa, wherever you are please come back!...Now the backyard of that house ,that i remember white, cool and humid because of the well where i played under the medlar while waiting for lunch after the montessori , has become into a cheap shoe-shop. Now also remembered that my blue-eyed granny lived next door and the every night i liked to knock on the wall and wait for her knocking back.
For dinner had beef and soy sauce noodles with a marinade of ginger, garlic, chili peppers and sherry-substituted by Johnnie Walker-.

ACQUA TEPIDA

Tomorrow Bank holiday!
Will have some drinks after work.
I have to go to the centre to pick up the Morning Coat for a wedding, also to buy a white shirt and a tie. What a stupid way of wasting money!
Right Now by The Transpersonals

STELLA MARIS

Start today in a new job.
Had Spanish Omelette made from free range organic hens, the colour is really atomic yellow.
Read Maus over the weekend, actually in 3 hours,the best thing is the complexity of the Vladek´s character, a natural born survivor of the holocaust that turns out to be a difficult and prejudiced old man.That´s the real life there is not white or black , good or bad people just different situations that produces random reactions without a congruent and rational behaviour, well not always but the heroes can be villains at the same time.
Einstürzende Neubauten - Stella Maris

REGINA

Had a great siesta after fussili all´aglio olio e pepperoncino with sheep cheese and some black pepper, dessert Häagen Dasz Macadamia-Vanilla ice cream.
Met with 3 girls at the centre, deep cultural an vital conversation, got lent few indie cds from J.
Had few beers, a beef shoarma at Pitacasso -Plaza Calderón de La Barca- and a Pedro Ximenez.
Nice chat afterwards at Alcalareños-Pza de la Encarnación-.
Intelligent thirty-something women.
Had a mouth-wash with a thing similar to blue Listerine, suddenly loads of memories from my times at Pfizer came to my mind, it is sweet to look back and enjoy it.

UN BEL JOUR

Raining most of the day, but after three months without rain it´s good news!
Maigret was horrible, perhaps listening to it on the bus stop at 07:30 in the morning was not the best situation...
New job on the public sector, not the most exciting one, but hey! we are in a world financial crisis!.
Diner: Spaghetti with tomato sauce and chorizo, the sofritto was excelent and very tasty:
-4 carrots grated
-2 leaks chopped
-1 bay leaf
-Extra virgin olive oil
-4 garlic cloves
-3 Cayenne Peppers
-Thyme
-Basil
-A dash of gin!
-Sel et moulin á poivre.
-Can of passata di pomodoro.
Lunch: Sardines Sandwich
Breakfast: Toast with Olive oil and glass of Cola-cao
And now Sweeney Todd!!!

GLOBAL SOUND

Listening to WNYU, a radio station discovered while in NY two summers ago. Some of the programmes are too "edgy" but it is refreshing to listen to new and ephimeral music -because most of it is not worth digging-.
Opened a Facebook account yesterday and had a few answers from people that dissapeared somewhere on the road. Predict we will exchange three emails and will go back to the limbo of lost "friends".
The HR course is very interesting , specially the psycological part of it.

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

In a windy and stormy night in Seville-Uncommon huh?-, a couple of beers and a superb Chou-fleur á la Nantua , watching a documentary about Heidegger was all needed to have a good hour before going to sleep. Unfortunately instead of showing a succint resemblance of his life and philosophy , the docu. turned out to be a very short-sighted and partial biographical sketch about the past of M.H. as a nazi . It also tried to show the paradox that his tutor Husserl and the person that rehabilitated his philosophy - Hanna Arendt- were both jews.
The things liked most was to see his refuge on the hills of the Black Forest and that he had an idea of Europe, as Ortega supposed : a common ground and ideal for most of the intelectuals from this continent.
Now a BBC audiobook of Maigret -Et la vieille dame?-

SHY CHILD BY EVOL

Great Track! Shy

KOSOVO VS. SPAIN

The implications of Kosovo´s self-declared-supported-by-the-west independence from Serbia seems to be catastrophical for Spanish interests given the obvious similarities between k. and the separatists regions of Spain.
There are clear contradictions on Spain´s Government first reactions on one hand not recognizing the independence but on the other hand being supported by political parties that seek the secession from Spain.
International Public Law is a Mith!
If you are a World Power you don´t need to comply with International law and if you are not, International Law will not defend you as it´s compulsion it is not structured and automatic.