Also I’m still studying Russian! I started A2 level a month ago or so, so still a long way to go. I hope to get an Elementary Level certificate when I’m done with this one. My professor thinks I should go for it, ‘cause she seems to think I’m good at this, I guess I’ll try to go for it, чем чёрт не шутит.
The plan is going for an intensive course in Russia afterwards. But still, that’s more of a long-term plan at the moment. Maybe in a year and a half or so.
Oh hell, I forgot on the update post I just wrote, there’s another stressing thing in my life at the moment, I’m moving!
Just changing neighbourhoods, though. I’m pretty stressed with the touristic massification where I’ve been living for the past three years. It’s ridiculous. You can’t even walk down the street without randomly stopping or constantly getting bumped. The queues in the closest supermarket are terrible all day. The metro station nearby is always overcrowded and sometimes I get late to class or work because there’s a giant mass of tourists trying to get in and they don’t know how to work the gates. There’re elections to the town council in a couple weeks and I hope to hell whoever wins does something about this. This is not an amusement park, it’s a city where actual people with actual jobs try to live.
PS. My new room is smaller but it has a balcony.
Heeeeeey, it’s been a long long time *coughs* How are you, sweeties?
I’ve basically been hit in the face with my third year in Law school. I’ve so much work it’s insane. And well, my mental health is much better these days than it used to be, so my social life has increased a lot too –hey, I actually go out for dinner or coffe with friends every week now, it’s unbelievable what medication can do for you–.
Also, I’ve been working at the bookstore again. Hopefully I’ll be there all Summer! (yay)
Also
erm
I’m dating a guy
Wait no. Let’s put it differently.
I’m dating a cop.
Yep. It’s happened. Still not believing the whole thing since it’s fairly recent. But seriously. A cop. What. What am I doing with a cop. Also he’s younger than me, so the weirdness factor is over the clouds. Oh well, it’s nice minus the whole crowded-places-make-me-edgy and also the careful-with-showing-up-at-my-back and the weird I-need-to-sit-with-my-back-to-the-wall-if-possible-or-i’ll-be-twitchy. He can thank the gods I’m a pretty laidback person ‘cause otherwise we’d stress each other to oblivion.
There lies his crown in water deep
Till Durin wakes again from sleep
Every time I think of the black market, I actually imagine a market, with little stalls selling illegal things like nuclear weapons and organs.
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE
WAIT SO THAT’S NOT WHAT IT IS
“QUICK THE COPS ARE COMING!” *everyone frantically tries to collapse their trestle tables*
Where there’s a will…
…life finds a way.
I know sweetie, I’ve been working mad hours plus I had my finals and my trip to London. I haven’t touched my computer since at least a week ago! I hope it’ll all calm down by next week. This January is killing me!
First date:
1. His dog tried to walk me.
2. I fell on the street. I don’t know why really, there were no obstacles. Ugh.
3. We saw a mugging and some people placking the thief on the street.
4. There were only two other people at the cinema besides us.
5. He drove me home and was cute and all but I didn’t get a kiss. I mean besides the two cheeks which is the.normal thing here.
Aw man. I had fun but jfc I hope we can give it another go.
♕ History Meme: Songs [½] ♕
→ Spanish Bombs — The Clash
Spanish Bombs appears on the classics and incredibly influential album London Calling, released on the fourteenth of December, 1979. It was the third studio album of the Clash, and arguably the peak of their career. Spanish Bombs itself was written by the band’s iconic frontman, Joe Strummer.
The song itself is about the lasting influence of the Spanish Civil War, one of Europe’s first clashes between fascism and leftism. The lyrics compare the effects and destructive images of the war with tourism in post-Franco Spain, and focus on the, perhaps indirect, role of the United States in aiding Franco in achieving his victory, the first truly fascist victory in Europe, a foreshadowing of events to come.
The song, as one might be able to guess given the band’s political leanings, praises the heroism that was present during the Spanish Civil war — no country other than Russia was willing to back the Republican side, and so only those who truly believed in the anti-Fascist (for it was not merely a Communist force, despite Stalin’s attempts at purges) fight fought in volunteer brigades, including Hemingway, Orwell and the poet who is alluded to in the song itself, Federico Garcia Lorca.
For many, Spanish Bombs is a highlight of the album, and the song has been described as an example of ‘pop punk’; it contributes to the over all varied sound of London Calling, which highlights different styles of music, from rock to punk to ska.
