Usually I love school. When I'm taking classes that are engaging, interesting, and keep my attention, I'm more than willing to put in the effort it takes to excel. In Spain, I worked my hindparts off - and consequently got some of the best grades in my classes and (I was informed by Profesora Giralt upon my return) I also did better than any other exchange student ever in the Weeb's history with URV. So, obviously, I enjoy school as a general rule. However, that is not true at all of my...

Or are you just twits?  But seriously.  So after hearing all about Twitter for all these months, I finally signed up .  And you know what?  It'll be cooler once I'm back in the states and have a phone plan I can afford, because I'll be posting from my mobile phone. Yeah, Twitter is tacky, but it's also rather fun.  I mean, stupid and tacky fun, but fun nonetheless.  Yet while most of the twits I follow are known in the Stardock family of sites, they're ...

11 Apr 2008.  9:19pm. For lunch, Gloria, Jani, Asunta, Merced and I go to El Museo del Jamón , which, for its goofy name, is actually quite good.  The paella is especially tasty, chock-full of little seafood. Following lunch, we meet the teacher and the others in front of the entrance to the Palacio Real .  We get in and as our guide takes us from room to room, I'm almost sickened by how gaudy and ostentatious it all is.  While it's pretty, it's mostly poin...

More awesome Madrid!  You know you get bored by it. -- 11 Apr 2008.  1:02am. After the Biblioteca Real , we separated - but as we were leaving, Carolina asked if I wanted to come to dinner with them.  I answered in the affirmative, and we exchanged mobile numbers. Around 10pm my mobile rang, and I was off to meet them for dinner by the opera house.  (Gotta love Spain's version of dinnertime - 9pm at the earliest.) I arrived just as they did, and as w...

Another big, fat one.  Sorry, CB.  Hate me for it.  I dare ya.  Plus, I took a long time getting all the hyperlinks to (hopefully) work - each piece of art I mention should pop up in its own browser window/tab, depending on your settings.  So get to know some of the art I got to see. -- 09 Apr 2008.  8:37pm. A few weeks ago a friend in one of my classes told me about a trip that her class was going on to Madrid, and explained that the teacher had exte...

I've been here at JU for almost a year now, but I didn't really start getting active until this last February. Of course, as many of you know, I go through spurts here, sometimes being very active, sometimes being really lazy. Sometimes I don't like to get involved with different things going on here, and other times I really do. But if there's one thing that I'm always a fan of, without fail, it's hijacking a thread. There's nothing better than having a conversation with someone about ...

Howdy, y'all.  I've been in Madrid for the past week, so I'm a bit behind.  Like 20 hand-written pages behind.  And each article I post here is usually 2-3 pages.  So I've got a bunch, and I'm going to try to keep them shorter for Cedarbird's sake, since she loves to complain about how long-winded I get.  Whatever. -- 02 Apr 2008.  5:24pm. "Say pull for me again. "Say hot for me again." I sit in the darkened booth, twisted sid...

Heh heh heh. That's all I want to say as I poke around JU today. I've finished my homework (I think) for the weekend, and here I am, sitting at the kitchen table in the new house, waiting for the plumber to fix the tub, and then it's off to work. (hi-ho.) Once again, the Drama Dragon has reared its ugly head and there's just "so much emotion!" Heh heh heh. The drama can be fun, and I really don't care about this one one way or the other. MM and I have had our tiffs, but we genera...