Saturday, June 21, 2014

Changes, Changes, Changes...

Lots of water have gone under the bridge since last time, and the begining of a new stage, plus to find the words to describe it, is already difficult. But I guess that this is what it will make it interesting, and a good exersize too. 
Let's see what are my motivations... On one hand, I think I have so many interesting experiences going on now, that it really worth the effort of putting them in paper. I want to share with my friends my travels, my troubles and my mind's caverns (lousy rhyme, I know, but if you don't like my rhymes, just read name of my blog)
I've been watching this TV series lately, Californication, about this writer from NYC living I'm LA. I was watching it crew style, that means, marathon style, because that is how we watch TV on ships, we get a few seasons of a series from someone' hard drive and we watch it until we are done, and then we go for the next one. For example, I watched eight seasons of Bones in about two months, three seasons of Two Broke Girls in about a week, but that was easy, twenty minute episodes are just like candies, you wake up, you see an episode, and you start your day with a laugh, you go for a nap, you see a short episode, and you sleep better, with a smile on you face. I prefer short sitcoms rather than long episodes because of this, still there are some exceptions, like Game of Thrones, that is being highly addictive, but since the episodes are so long that they were a real hazard to my sleep.
So I was watching Californication, and seeing this writer going thru all the things he goes thru made me think about typing again. Don't get me wrong, he is not a roll model to me, I will not start smoking again, I will not drink or get high as he does, but I can type again, because that is what I'm going to do, to type, writing is far to complicated, and I never learnt to write. I like to tell stories, and that is what I will do if I have nothing fresh to type. I will repeat those stories I've been telling my guest, and my drunks, along the years of bar tending and cruising to keep them entertained, so they would leave a better tip, and I could buy another beer on the crew bar. I have a bunch of good stories that I perfected  by repeating them week after week to new batch of pax (passengers in the Hospitality lingo)
But why in English and no in Spanish? Well, I would love to be able to write in both, but that would take too much time, and I don't want to think twice before I start writing, I just want to do it. Also, English is a more simple language, so the google translator will have a less corrections to do that if would do it the opposite way. To my English speaking friends, please don't get me wrong, technically talking, English is easier than Spanish, articles don't define gender, nouns neither, and a long array of differences that my vocabulary is not rich enough to enunciate.

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