Since the winter term is coming to a close here in Spain, I had to write some reports yesterday (and have Anna translate them, because my boss is not responding to my pleas for an advanced Spanish class ( Read more... )

I have been an English teacher for more than six months now, which makes it the job I held down the longest in my life. My contract will be over soon, though, because, ya' know, summer vacation and the kids are going away ( Read more... )

Last night when I was travelling from Bilbao, a woman left a piece of paper, a stubbed pencil and a ring made of twisted wire in my lap and then rushed out of the train. On the piece of paper she wrote "Se agradece ver a gente sonreir" - "It's nice to see people smile". This happened somewhere around the Bakiola station, on the C-3 line ( Read more... )

The job search is over! I managed to score an interview with Centro de Estudios DINI in Vitoria and aced it. They hired me for 12 hours a week, which means my evenings from now on will be full of English teaching. I always wanted to NOT become an EFL teacher, but I guess this is how life goes sometime: you avoid getting into an English teaching ( Read more... )

I have four main social media outlets: my LJ, my Twitter, Facebook and my Jogger. That's not counting the various forums I'm on or that deviantArt account that's left to fallow ( Read more... )

Who knows? Maybe I'm just tired of blogging. Bah, anyway here's what been happening:

• My skin is a vessel of disease: got a pretty painful, pretty big, pretty dangerous boil on my back. It's reacting well to treatment, AKA opening it up with a hook-like scalpel and draining it daily. Also, socialised health care is the bomb, the Americans do not ( Read more... )

I want to post at least once every week until the end of the year. This means you will sometimes get posts like these.

Numbers are crunching

• Gigahurtzes in new laptop: 2.3
• RAMS in new laptop: 4
• Working CD drives in laptop: 1
• Stickers on laptopt: 3 out-of-factory-tech-speccy ones, 0 user ones.

• Number of books currently reading: 4

Here. This is how my desktop look right now. Notice the suspicious lack of a ton of books. They were moved to a new bookcase. Notice the suspicious Zeon Principality Dom on the right hand speaker. That's Mod. He's our new intern.