Marginal Responses to Marginal Bullshit

FINALS
SHIT
FINALS
PANIC
FINALS
FINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALS

It seems most of you (us) have stopped posting. Reasons might range from being busy to growing up. However, this is my short update on things that I'm usually asked about:

-Marriage: IT WORKS!
-Grad School : Love it, but it wears me out
-Guitar: I miss practicing a lot SO BAD
-Homework: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARFFFFFFFFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
-Health: Pretty damn good.
-Procastrination: As bad as ever.

In the end, loneliness is law.

Gotta make the best out of it, though.

My New Year's Resolutions:

1.- Finish all classes successfully.
2.- Get a Thesis topic.
3.- Finish recording.
4.- Gigging.
5.- Get kickass recommendation letters for PhD apps.
6.- Be more selfish.
7.- Spend more time transcribing jazz lines.
8.- Find new worthy bands.
9.- Go to more concerts.
10.- Sleep more.

Practice hard, play hard, be efficient.

D-DAY for Advanced Calculus!

Please, please, let it be good!

( My feelings )

I need to use the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for integrals to prove the Minkowski's inequality and I am so fucking stuck. I hope I can eventually get it.

Anyhow, my life needs:


- Guitar Practice hours.
- Visits to the Beach.
- Cooking hours.
- A puppy.

It's possible that I am inspired to ask for these very general things because I've been tied down by school most of the time.

Wedding was wonderful. Will make a post only with pictures.

Civil Status: Married.

Regardless of countless experiences that have led me to believe I will never trust anyone, I am happy I am certain to spend time with the only woman I've really loved. The wedding license has been done, plans are being made for the wedding to happen on Halloween (so, Jason you have no excuse to miss it.) Between happy blanket time, affection and kisses I assume things will go well.

The very large set of probabilities has made me aware of the following results via analysis:

- The fact that life is only probable doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable.
- One can make exceptions on anything for a single person if the desired result is long run compatibility.
- Abandonment issues can be very much alive no matter how strong you think you are.
- It's OK to share a toothbrush and your boxers.

All results above extremely important in their own accord, perhaps only understood by a specific person at this point. However, a good example of tiny epiphanies that can alter someone's life significantly.

After a great teaching session, a test pushed back and a crazy revelation that I can do things properly I am feeling much better. Thanks.

I don't know what's worse, to get advice or to get reasons. Don't talk in my behalf I only make music for chameleons. Tell me (at last) something smart, something with balls. The world is real, filled with misery and illusions. There's no real truth, I move from castles to dark alleys. If I've learned something is that I can't believe in myself or my emotions. And the anesthesia is so strong, my love. I am not going to be the one holding back the hands in the big clock. I am not going to be out of tune, but I am really offended by all this vulgarity. There's a train that goes straight into the center of your love, but it sinks into the sea and it drowns you in pain. There is nothing I like more than your smile, my love, that's your best place, it's my best song. Nothing surprises me more in life, my love , that seeing my skin change like a chameleon's. Don't be afraid, please. All we have to do is go out and feel the sun. I only make music for chameleons.

So, the day for my return to the States is tomorrow. Most things regarding this have been sorted out and I am ready to take the next step in life.

That is it for today.

I'm in love with old Metallica again after discovering that even if the solos aren't complex, bass lines are freaking challenging. I hear the new album is supposed to be super shreddy.

Tell me about bands you used to love and now you hate. Or bands that you fell for again after a long spell of dislike.










Cliff was the man.

And it's like that
Something I don't want to see
A moment to understand
The fidelity of being

And it's like that
A girl is screaming at me
A moment of dissatisfaction
I just couldn't help it

And I only hope
That you breath
Just one kiss
That will be felt
There's a moment for desire
And I don't want to feel like this
Let me suffer
A moment beside you
Looking into each other
In the hurricane's eye

And it's like that
Something I don't want to see
Today I just wait, wait and wait
Until the storm is gone

When I hear it I just pretend
Not always, do I follow the road of a good loser

And I only hope
That you breath
Just one kiss
That will be felt
There's a moment for desire
And I don't want to feel like this
Let me suffer
A moment beside you
Looking into each other
In the hurricane's eye
I'll never ask from you
To pray to the sun

So I took lessons from members of this band. I've recorded in the studio of one of them, the guitarist is a phenomenal friend and mentor. I've loved them since I was a little kid. They are reuniting for one more tour, and I am fortunate it happens when I'm here and that tickets were birthday presents from them.

My IMF funded classes are over. I presented my last project tonight and now I am totally and unambiguously free to be even lazier. Which would have been great if it had happened around the time in which the Euro 2008 started. I watched the Spain - Germany match and for some reason really celebrated the goal Torres scored, which made Spain the champion this time around.



But whatever, weight loss is still going great. No residual skin thanks to long and repeated hours at gym. Apartment search could go better, although I am sure I will be able to find something before I return to the States. I am nervous about the Masters, about the PhD after and about the decision of becoming an academic. It sounds like I've given up in the business world, but I think trying to shoot for working for a university is not necessarily a bad deal. Granted, I am not sure if I'll do that or try to work with the International Development Bank or some institution of that sort. Somehow the fact that new possibilities are coming up in my head excites me a lot.

I am also nervous about what will happen with the album. Since the recording was interrupted due to my unexpected trip I have a lot of catching up to do. Maybe with Greg's help this will be easier than what I am expecting. I've written a good amount of new songs but I am likely to discard at least half of them. MY technique has improved dramatically from all the time spent in practice and maybe it will show. I have some clinics to do when I return to Florida, so I hope I'm ready.

I know I am being awfully repetitive, but I feel slight (yes I'll use the word again) nervousness about the adventures that are to come. I am terribly excited and ready to go. I am fortunately marrying a person who likes these things as much as I do (if not more) and what could be nicer than having a partner in crime? Let's hope everything works in a way that will allow us to simply keep on running free.

Let me know if you're up for adventuring too.

Why is James LaBrie trying to sound like James Hetfield?

Mike Portnoy impresses me more every time I hear him.

This perfectly expresses how I've been feeling about the world lately:

Hello you avid readers of other people's personal crap. I have an update for you that should make up for the time in which I haven't posted. I'll take out the important big topics right away, you might ask about details on them if you please although I am sure they are self explanatory:

- I got my Visa (Five years duration now)
- Doing a Masters in Mathematical Sciences first, need better resume.
- Got a tuition waiver and a stipend.
- I'll be seeing Jax again.
- I've officially lost 54 pounds.
- I am still getting married.

Hopefully this has provided you enough information about the quotidian life of a curly haired monster with an accent. In other news, I am almost done with the IMF funded classes and will get a diploma of specialization in Game Theory from Universidad Bolivariana de Chile, which happens to be quite a respectable institution somehow. I like academic life but hate work groups.

I went to my High School Reunion and saw all this people. They are all pretty phenomenal professionals and it made me glad to have spent time with them in my youth. I also got drunk off my ass, which is always a great time for me. I enjoyed being home, but I am so ready for this to be over. I want to see Anna badly. Yes, yes, yes I am able to express emotions like these even now.

A question for you:

If the Universe is supposed to be everything in the material world then on what can it be expanding if space is by itself part of the Universe?

Maybe a terribly bad written question, but I had a zen stupor moment thinking it like that.

Things have been spectacular lately. I finally got paid from the consulting I've been doing. I also feel well enough after the surgery to dare get the root canal I need. I'm going on a hunt for wedding rings today! Considering that I have awful taste for most things visual I have a good friend coming with me to check out the stuff.

Have I mentioned I love the Mises Institute with a passion? I've been reading stuff from that site a lot lately. I am so happy to be a member.

I don't have any really interesting stories for you right now. But I will in the next couple of weeks.

I've found a fun thing for you guys to play with if you are bored, I enjoyed it:

Budget Hero

Have a good day

Just because I just did it for someone yesterday, I will post this now. Answer it if you feel like it, no offense taken if not (I'm just bored). The questions have inside jokes, anecdotes and conversational information that was shared at some point with everyone who knows me, or is pretty evident. Here it goes.


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