I missed the celebration...

...of my own blog 10,000 visitor! Whoever he or she may be, thanks for reading my "training spot", as I used to call it. It is estrange how so many people has someway or another come to read something that you have written without an intended audience. It is a completely different feeling from knowing how many people have read one of your articles because you are writing for that specific group interested in the topic you are writing about, and with whom you are trying to establish a dialectics. In this blog, the last part, at least in my case, is missing in my intention. I would love it, if I have managed to create some conversation, don't get me wrong, but I believe a blog like this can only answer to some hidden narcissist agenda of pretending that somebody in the cyberspace is going to care even though I pretend not to.
Oh well...

Happy New Year 2012!

I guess this is what you do when you use Twitter, don't you? In any case Happy New Year 2012!

Do you like salsa?

I'm sure some of you got here because you like salsa and a random Google search directed you here. If that's the case, I'm sorry to say that this post may not be what you were looking for. I don't like any other salsa that you cannot eat with tortilla chips, and I wonder why everybody assumes that I like salsa. I do know the answer, it is because I speak Spanish! It is as simple as that. I like other Caribean rhythms, and I wish I would like salsa, because when I see people dancing it seems as if they are really enjoying themselves, not to mention the sensuality attached to it.
Well, as I am a Spanish professor, I've been asked to collaborate into this hands-on event where the chair of my department is going to teach salsa to students. I told him that I have no clue of how to dance salsa, but he seemed so engaged and enthusiastic that I wasn't able to tell him no.
I am taking one for the cause, because after 3 hours of hearing salsa I don't even know what I'm able to transform into. Imagine to stand by a boom box for three hours with a music that you really cannot stand... anything, death metal, polka, eurotrash, that kind of lame soul-pop from the divas and their equal male counterparts that I'm ashamed to call soul. However, I will stand stoically with a smile and do my best!
Now, the question arises, am I perpetuating the stereotype and selling out? or, am I acting professionally?
The event is Thursday, I will tell you if it was worthwhile.

The habit of writing daily

I have not written in a while, not even for my research. I can give you the excuse that I have been sick as a dog, which is true, but that would only be nothing else than an excuse. Even if it is a good one. While I was sick, I have watched a few movies, and as many soccer games. I have read from two different and interesting books. I have skimmed over dozens of newspapers, and a few blogs... so why haven't I written about them? No excuses...but I was sick as dog!)