Tornado

A music video using stock footage of tornados. Testing the video blogging tool from google. I like to watch tornados on a screen in a tropical island far, far, away. While listening to Prodigy.

I got fed up with the new job and resigned since they haven't paid me in a month. They forced us to use a special ATM card with charges for checking the balance, withdrawals, activating the account, etc. In the end, I wasn't going to receive my full salary, so fuck that. I talked with the newspaper editor and with some research maybe I can make some news out of this.

It is weird to feel so lazy, so much time on my hands, at least until August. Haven't gone out since I have no good excuse to leave the house. Next week there are lots of holidays, government has the whole week off, so maybe I will get out then. Want to go to Guajataca and hang out with nature for a little bit. I need to talk to it, have so much on my mind.

Part of what is on my mind is that eternal question: what the fuck am I going to do when I graduate on December? I really want to enroll in the Ph.D. Program in Computer and Information Science and Engineering. I want to devote my life to academia, research and development. The flip side is that it is a little daunting to know that I may devote five years to the degree and not be able to graduate, since the competency exam can only be repeated once. I know me, I am going to do it no matter what. Taking a semester at a time. The alternative would be to establish a research and development business taking advantage of the VITEC2 facilities, but I don't know how to start going about that. So what I will do is start the PhD, learn all about the research and development process and decide from there.

L. gave me some good news. She has decided for us to go to Italy on November 2007. You know, lapsing Catholics renewing their faith in the face of the World Cup final outcome have to give back as they receive. Tee-hee.

First time I post here outside from home. At work, but there are no pictures to censor and I have absolutely nothing to do for the next four hours. So I update this, and use it as my first entry to the myspace blog. (No I am not a regular myspace user. In fact, my current job forces me to have a myspace account. Yeah, go ahead, read my previous entry, read this one and do the math. You are all bright people.)

The summer class was ABSOLUTELY GREAT. Writing for the media is something I really love in a theoretical way, opposed to writing about the new opening of a supermarket. No, I am not making that up: Monday I have to come up with four pages of information about said opening night, the owner of the supermarket, pictures of the place and God knows what else. Not an assignment, but as part of my job at the newspaper. There are a thousand news I could fill that newspaper with, but, oh, no, they want to do a special section about that particular piece of earth shattering "news".

Like: talk about the economic crisis. Things are pretty much horrible here. The legislature signing and making laws they don't read, after been debating them for more than a year. The governor gets to impose a sales tax while millions of dollars in income are not being taxed properly, and imports are not inspected in our ports. People are getting out of this sinking ship, lots of houses on sale that weren't last month. For the first time ever, I am living from paycheck to paycheck. I always used to have some money saved in the bank for emergencies, now my emergency fund is my unused credit card balance. I hate it.

On the other hand, I must publicly declare Mark Lanegan as the most beautiful male voice ever. I am listening to him right now. Til next time. Photos have appeared, gotta go work.