From El Dude with Love...

All our past times should be forgotten.
All our past times should be erased.
I don't care how much it costs;
'Cause I don't count the loss
As long as I can see your face again.
-Eric Clapton

La Profesora is going through a hard time. Pobrecita! She's been mega sick, maybe is sick again, and just feels like the world is crashing in on her. We all know how that feels.

I start a new class tomorrow, which allows me to drop the class with the kids all the way south outside of Madrid in Rivas that has become unprofitable from a time standpoint. So now Lunes, Martes, y Jueves I work late and Miercoles I finish at 15:30. Yeah! And Viernes is just one class from 8:15 – 9:45.

You know gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
-Counting Crows

So today was my first short Miercoles and went to see the traveling Picasso exhibit at the Reina Sophia in Atoche on the way to seeing La Profesora. It was outrageous! It was overwhelming there were so many pieces. More Picasso than you could shake your schlong at! It was fantastic. From early stuff up to his death. GUERNICA is always on display there, but damn is that thing huge! It was a thrill. I will have to go back before 5 de Mayo. It was maybe the best art exhibition i have ever seen.

It was an April morning when they told us we should go
As I turn to you, you smiled at me
How could we say no?
-Led Zeppelin

As ridiculous as it sounds, i am going to Moscow for the weekend on Abril 17^th. The trip is precipitated by being a Visa Exile. I need to re-enter Spain so that i am legal when i sign the contract for my flat in May (you get 90 days on a US Visa). I was just in Denmark, but EU countries don't stamp each other. So i had to go somewhere non-EU, and the price was right, so Moscow here i come! I will stay in a hostel to keep expenses down. I am sure it will be an adventure, if nothing else. I'll see if i can find another lunatic to join me, but if not i will go the weekend alone. It's a five hour trip and they are 2 hours ahead of Spain. So I fly on Jueves at 23:45 and arrive at 6:45 on Viernes. I get back on Domingo about 21:30. Weekend in Moscow. Woo hoo!

One could do worse than to be a swinger of birches
-Robert Frost