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I know I'm being cheesy.. sometimes I like cheesiness.. so here it goes:

SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

one of my favorite sonnets, as cliche as it may be.. but today i believe in it.. i'm heartbroken, so there you go, make a feast of me. i don't care..

todos los perros van al cielo

es una tristeza extrana... talves porque no he estado cerca de la muerte... la ultima persona cercana a mi que murio fue mi abuelita, en 1999, y admito que yo estaba muy joven para darme cuenta de lo que pasaba... y por eso es tan apabullante darme cuenta del hueco enorme que esta dejando en mi un perro!!!! pero Baco fue el hilo que nos unia en la casa y todo tenia que ver con el, desde que yo me levantaba y el estaba por ahi, con mi hermana, a como rascaba la puerta cuando queria salir o llegaba mi mama o Andrea.. siempre me movio el rabito... aun cuando estaba enfermo con cancer...

lo trajeron a la casa en 1994, cuando yo tenia 14... y lo pusimos a dormir 4 dias despues de mi cumple 28... el me conocio por la mitad de mi vida hasta ahora..

ahora duele porque no puedo oir el sonido que hacia su collar cuando pegaba con las plaquitas que tenia, o porque hoy no ladro... esta enterrado en el patio de atras, a la par de Nemo, el gato que nos envenenaron...

y solo me acuerdo de ayer cuando mi hermana lo sostenia como un bebito y el se dormia y dejaba de respirar y el corazon le dejo de latir... le dije que iba a soNar con ardillas y huesitos... y oi a mi hermana pidiendole perdon... y se fue mi gordo y lo pusimos en una caja... estaba tan suave... sin vida ya mi pobre Baco..

y Dios!! es un perro y estoy atacada llorando... pero que falta me hace.. cuanto lo quiero de vuelta.. y de pedirle perdon por ponerlo a dormir y verlo morir.. ay gordito me perdonas??

para mi, todos los perros van al cielo (y los gatos tambien).. y ahi esta Baquito..

Baco (1 junio 1994 - 24 de mayo 2008)

con amor,
tu tia Ale

they are oh so back...

best old news of the year so far (i should check my sources more often):

bran van 3000 released their third album last year, Rose..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hIkpjTS3Gk

(to listen to the first single)

they are the best... i had missed them oh so much..

the only downside to finding out about the release is that i'll have to wait for a while to get the cd because of course, how can i find bv3 in CR????!!!!

why i love language so much

i heart cat and girl

a room with a view of DEATH!!!!

god bless eddie izzard.

Thesis seminar

I'll start a thesis seminar next Thursday..

Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel's "Por una cabeza"

one person wrote: "Carlitos realmente cada día canta mejor." (Carlitos really sings better each day [FYI: he is dead])

Gardel is amazing.

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cero tolerance

I know how bitchy i can be... in Spanish i'd call it to be "concha".. but i'm sick and tired of the work, of my work and of the.. brats.. but i know they are tired as well..

i'm going to have 3 weeks of vacations, starting the afternoon of the 29th.. i have tons and tons of homework to check, but at least i'll do it at my own pace..

tried to explaina "the road not taken" to 8th graders

i showed the 9th graders my "comics collection" (6 books, how lame).. it was nice and they were somewhat interested..

planning on teaching "romeo and juliet" to the 9th graders next trimester.. i guess i should put my act together.. yikes

that's all for now.. i know i haven't writen in ages, but today i decided to procrastinate when my headache started the moment i picked up a pen to correct a book report :-p

take care y'all

the reason why..

i'm just spent.

Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!


you get my point?

...we can be heroes just for one day...

david bowie's song is utterly beautiful and i've liked for ages, but now it keeps ringing on my head because of my most recent obsession: the tv drama series Heroes.

my friend Xai gave the first 4 episodes on a disc, which he had downloaded... but it didn't work in my computer.. so i did the next best thing and watched the show through youtube.

and

i

love

it..

LOVE

IT!!!

why?

1. superheroes.. i grew up with (names used in Costa Rica): Mazinger Z, Capitan Raymar, los SuperAmigos (a.k.a. Justice League), Thudercats, the one about the falcons in space (what was the name??), Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc.
then el fo started lending me his comics: Justice League, X-Men, Sandman (he is a hero.. sort of), Astro City, The Inhumans, Watchmen, etc.
and hector hooked me on Crimson, Promethea, and more Allan Moore comics.
ok, these are all comics but, what better place for heroes than on the mass appeal of graphic novels and comics??

2. it is a sign of the times. i truly believe so. because a) we are waiting for the end of the world, one way or another.. the big trial, something that will attempt end this screwed up world.. and have someone bigger than us save it. and b) who doesn't want a superpower? for real..

3. the cast is amazing. i have to admit that Milo Ventimiglia lured me (i'm a big Gilmore Girls fan and i always rooted for Jess), but then.. wow, the rest of the cast is amazing..

4. the plot. it has kept me glued to youtube for hours... and i don't have such a fast internet connection, so it takes me a while to download a whole episode. i must admit that i have anticipated certain details about the overall plot, but as a whole, it is promising.

5. HIRO!!!! i love the character... he is the epitome of what is pure and positive. he struggles, he believes in destiny, he hasn't lost his faith and he is willing to learn. this is a clip from Masi Oka's appearance in a tv show.. ok, i know that i'm mixing character with actor, but i must admit that Masi Oka appeals to me just as much as Hiro.

http://www.heroestheseries.com/masi-oka-on-craig-
fergusons-late-show/

I HEART HIRO

I HEART HEROES

bits and pieces

this is just for fun... Dave, Guy, you'll really like it:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243176

apart from that...hmmm.. i just wanted to post something... i should post more often.. ok, here it goes..

1. i'm absolutely freaking out about the teaching gig.. for real.. i actually had a nightmare in which i call stupid one of my students.. that doesn't really bother me, well, of course it does, but it was just a bad dream.. what bothers me is... ok, i'll place it in the form of a question: do you think i make a good teacher? CAN I HANDLE IT FOR GOD'S SAKE????

2. it's been a week since the office christmas party and every working day someone has come up to me to tell me how cool my hair looked. ok, i know, i'll post a picture but, what, do i really look that bad in the office that i get some hairspray and some makeup and everybody notices me?? here are the pictures:




















so, ok, i looked great, hehe... well, i had to... this is my last party at the office... but i didn't win the tv.. and someone stole the gift they gave us at the entry... bastards!!!

3. i think so much on the thesis... i'm literally stuck... should i be bold and wing it with the graphic novel topic (and if i choose it what would it be, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, what!!??), of play it moderately safe and go for Hallucinating Foucault?

4. the other day i saw Casino Royale, the new James Bond movie and i must admit that Daniel Craig makes a rather yummy James Bond (my picks were with Robbie Williams actually) and the movie is quite gripping and i got to see a Bond that my generation didn't know but would like to understand better.

so yeah, i guess this is it so far... i kind of lost thread, duh.

take care and good night.

now i tell you what i want, what i really really want

wow, so it's been almost 2 months since i last posted... was very busy with work and the last month of classes... lots of papers and stuff to read and to do...

many things have happened...

i got a job. teaching english lit at a private highschool.

i'll start next year in february.

i told my boss that i was going to quit... i'll work just weekends during january and then my last day will be superbowl.

i need to get a car, re-learn how to drive and re-validate my driver's license.

so i was thinking on how i do get the things i want... and how sometimes i just don't..

like, i get the things i want to achieve for myself... but that's where things stop.

with time i've come to realize i'm a very stubborn person and that when i set my mind into something i'll end up getting it.. i've done it with courses, papers, jobs and even relationships.

so that's why i feel so frustrated when i cannot get what i want from people...

i've tried to live my life by one rule: treat others as you would like to be treated..

..it hasn't been working like that lately..

well, yes and no..

i guess that i have to take care of myself like that, alone.

when i was 6 years old....

..i fell in love with david bowie..
















..while watching "labyrinth"..
























..and 20 years later, it remains my favorie movie..
















..and bowie/jareth is as dreamy as ever..

Un diamante es para siempre

Entre tu y yo

por El Norte

Esa chica enamorada
que me mira y no se aclara;
es la chica de mi vida,
es el sue¤o que buscaba.
Quise que me recordara, y que nunca me olvidara.

Entre tú y yo
un diamante es para siempre,
entre tú y yo
nuestro amor es para siempre.

Todo en ella me fascina
su mirada me domina,
cada vez que yo la veo
pienso cuanto la deseo.
Quise que me recordara y que nunca me olvidara.

Entre tú y yo
un diamante es para siempre,
entre tú y yo
nuestro amor es para siempre.

I guess I'm a recalcitrant bitch

"please could you stay awhile
to share my grief
it's such a lovely day
to have to always feel this way.... "

ramdom thoughts of a compressed mind
deprived
hushed
controlled
weeping
vying

blue cuz that's the color of sorrow

not green, nosir...
that's the color of hope..

so, make your bet cuz yeah!! i'm still a bookie!!

i guess i've never had luck
or is it that i'm jinxed?

void

void

void

the little things that make my mood are gone..

apparently the whole country ran out of them..

so I dream of babies

and Italy

pathetic and butchy

i wear lipgloss to paint my insecurites

so my lips are sticky and shiny..
it is my secret weapon!!!

the song goes "i'm not okay.." hahaha

can't

you

see

it?

wishful thinking

i want one... maybe on my shoulder.. maybe on my back..

gotta love cat and girl

..oh, literary humor.. one of my favorites..

the practicality of learning English

as an English student, this video was too good to not pass on. enjoy!!

http://www.glumbert.com/media/english

"c'mon toshi, c'mon!"