RANTING AT THE DENTIST'S

Yesterday afternoon, I was at the dentist's waiting to get a filling done. The thing is that I was on my own at the waiting room, and the background music was pretty much like the background music you get in every single posh elevator....relaxing,calming and cool instrumental versions of "I wanna know what love is....I want you to show me..." so on and so forth if you know what I mean, little brats.So, I kept on waiting for the dude to come out, or for the assistant to offer a coffee or a pop while I had to hear the drill inside the consult, picturing how that drill penetrated inside the dental cavities of some innocent client.

I started to feel uneasy as I saw that nobody was coming out of the consult nor was anybody getting in, just me,myself and the noise from the drill...what a bore. I suddenly started to worry and asked for the receptionist who had welcomed me about 30 minutes ago.Nobody answered.I went up to the reception and realized that she was gone!!!I headed to the dentist's consult...opened the door and saw that both the dentist and the client had been ruthlessly assassinated by that drill.

Oh,I was just nodding off after lunch and thought that some fiction would do good to me.

ANY GIVEN DAY

Any given day, the wheel of fortune will spin backwards, and the goddess will retire or else, apply for unemployment subsidy.Any given day, we'll all control the wheel, we'll be able to stop it at any moment and everything will be fine.Any given day, I'll learn how to use computers and I'll get along with them. Any given day, everybody'll be able to express their feelings freely, and the middle point won't be anymore the most respected opinion...God...it's so easy to be liked...being liked is totally overrated....and expressing our emotions and feeling is underrated. Any given day I'll tell one of my friends how much I hate his new hairstyle and, most importantly, he'll still like me...I won't have to remain silent.

Any given day, people will like us the way we are and not the way they want us to be.

LENTILS

Last weekend I was having dinner with friends.A couple I hadn't met joined us too. They were friends of one of my friends,if you know what I mean.The boy was tall and stocky,and most of the time we were talking about food.This young fellow took pride in being able to cook "deconstructed Spanish omelette with decomposed apple pie", which he had apparently first eaten at Ferran Adria's Bulli. He then continued stating that he couldn't understand people who didn't even want to try nouvelle cuisine, he said they were "narrow-minded hicks".

After a couple of hours listening to him I raised my cup and said:

"Honestly,I prefer a nice plate of lentils with pork-sausage,It has no Nitrogen or Oxygen,it tastes great and I don't understand those pompous and prepotent rednecks like you who prefer to eat a frozen criket"

MY HOMETOWN

Dear All,

Today I'll talk about soccer,I don't feel like coming down on you. I grew up in a town on the fringes of the city, I grew up in Alcorcon.Today's the first time Alcorcón is in the news,it's everywhere!!!!!We used to be in the news exclusively when a politician inaugurated a hospital, or when there was a murder, etc...yet it's a pretty peaceful and quiet town. Yesterday we kicked Real Madrid's rear and defeated them in an unprecedented match where a team which has a 1.2 million budget won a team that spent this summer over 250 million signing up the best european players.

Why or how did it happen?I don't know,guys,I'm not too interested in soccer.I like to play,but watching is dull (unless it's a good match).I didn't watch yesterday's game,yet I wish I had.Of course,I'm not saying Atletico is better,We would've lost 6 or 7 nil!!!!I'm aware of the fact that atletico sucks...but as a famous Spanish songwriter says:

"It's just those little things..."

UNSTARTED AND UNFINISHED

TEARIN' MY HAIR OUT

Sorry for comin' down on you,boys.Sorry for shouting at you...sorry for yellin' at you...but...let me think about it...YOU DESERVED WHAT YOU GOT!!!!!!!!!!

Really,you should by now know where you are and what you're doing...but....you know nothin' at all, you think this is a dog n' pony show where we inflate balloons, eat some candy, exchange presents, blow out candles, play ludo, or whatever...THIS IS YOUR FUTURE AND MOST OF YOU ACT AS IF YOU WERE AT A BIRTHDAY PARTY....STOP IT!!!!!!

LOST IN TRANSLATION

One of my best friends asked me last saturday night what I liked most and least about teaching.That's a difficult question I still don't have an answer for,and that's exactly what I told him.I guess someone can't accurately explain why they like lentils...'coz they taste damn good,right?I definitely hate all the paperwork I have to deal with everyday,and I also hate to see how many of my students don't get to understand how privileged they should feel for being able to study, many of our parents didn't have the chance,and sometimes I see my students there,with little or no interest in what I'm trying to tell them.

But some other days...ha!!!!there are other days when...everything comes out right,and things work out the way they're supposed to work out,days where students ask questions,answer questions,raise their hands to prove they've assimilated the concepts,days where students let you do your job instead of aggraviating with impolite remarks...ha!!!these days...my friend then suggested that we go back home...