lo que sea

I don´t have any particular subject just lots of bits. Today I tried to get my brain into thinking about thesis mode and my thoughts rebelled and frolicked frivolously no they said we´re in barcelona!

I did mangage to send an important e-mail to my bosses though. The office is so peaceful when I go in in the afternoon to my desk with computer and I am left to my own devices to e-mail and research and make little notes and the 4 hours go by very quickly. I think 4 hours may be a good ration of time to work for I don´t even get twitchY! I can see why companies are so keen for their staff to stop smoking some of my colleagues jump around for cigarette breaks often! Many of you might not know what I actually DO at the desk apart from look professional and drink water from the fountain. Well this centre this CCCB has asked me to find South African participants for 2 of their annual festivals. One called KOSMOPOLIS is a festival about words in all their incarnations- rapped, written, comicked,sang, academiced, theorised etc. The other one (that I have to still wrap my head around completely) is called NOW about how advances in the internet and sciences and activism and performance all change and shape people´s perceptions of their identity and place in the world. There are many complicated spanish metaphors (I think abstract even for a spanish) that boil down to the idea of having an identity that acknowledges the local(in this case Catauña, the language etc) while at the same time having the idea of being a global citizen, a person of the world without borders. I´ve been reading all their back material and programmes to try and get into their heads and see exactly what they´re looking for and the way in which I need to phrase my writing so that it is perfectly in tune with their main plucks and understandable. Out of my understanding I can pluck suggestions of possible participants out of my memory and the net...there seem to be a few family members in the mix but that is only because they do nice things...ahem.

Tonight to sleep...I have started a spanish class in my free mornings which means an 8:30 rise every day instaed of 11 or 12! How terrible! And it is a small intense class where you get asked a question every 5 minutes by a sweet enthusiastic teacher so you have to pay attention. I am learning about the past subjunctive though which is good because it means I can be wistful. A whole new emotion accessible in another language! I can say oh! That he would have walked down another path! And stare into the middle distance.