Halfway House: Rejuvenation

Good news: I'm mostly over my dark period here in Spain. I think it was the culmination of me coming out of plague week and going back to school last week. But I'm feeling much better now.

Friday was a personal day for me here in the city. Took myself to Subway and got real food. It really did taste like the best thing on earth. And don't even get me started on the Diet Pepsi. It almost brought me to tears. After lunch, I walked over to the Guggenheim Museum. The Poopy is looking a little scraggly this time of year as all the flowers have grow out. He'll probably get a trim or some different foliage soon. The new exhibition at the Gug was the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. And man oh man it was great! I've always had a great interest in architecture and all of the sketches, models and videos of Wright's works were amazing. And not having anyone tag along with me was nice too. I took my time, saw what I wanted to see and took my time. There was also a collection of short films playing - some made more sense than others but I checked them all out. There was also a documentary of Frank Gerhry - the architect that designed the museum and many other things that I sat and watched for a while in the Museum.

After the museum it was still raining so I ran some errands had summore personal time. I think that's what I'll have to do from now on - make sure I have some time just for me to go about my business in the city and check stuff out. That evening I just sat around with the neighbors and talked and painted nails for a while. My roommate is gone for the week back in the US for some grad school interviews, so my room is all my own. Which of course I do enjoy.

On Saturday we went back to the secret underground market because one girl wanted to find some genie pants and just too look around at other goodies. That evening we went out to celebrate a friend's birthday at a nightclub called Fever. But beforehand, we went to a friend's house that between like 20 people they rent out to have parties in the city. We listened to music and played a game similar to that of Waterfall in the States called Señior Tres. It was really fun and good chance for all of us to practice our Spanish since their English was very limited. It was a long metro ride to the club and from the stop, a 10 minute walk. It's in the sketchiest looking place I'd ever been in the city (it really wasn't, just full of weird young people who line up down the long street leading up to the club and drink out of the trunks of cars.) The club was cool and had a couple different rooms that each had different music. In one room there was live music with a band from the UK that was really good. Their music was upbeat and jazzy - Just found them after some internet stalking - Laura Vane and the Vipertones. Most of the other music was techno and it eventually got disgustingly crowded and we left. Not to say that we left early, I think I went to be between 5-6am. A pretty good time, but I don't think I'll be shelling out the money to go back to this club.

Sunday: recuperation, homework, and the continuation of a week-long no pants party.