Soledad en masa

Is that a jarana the dude second from left is playing? Nice.

I wish I had listened to Los Lobos earlier in life. It’s some pretty good music. I might buy some of their music later.

A shadow of a former friend hounds me everyday. Everywhere I go it seems to be in front of me. I close my eyes, there is the shadow. I can’t go a day without being reminded. Why is that I am still reminded, though I am on far from home? I left South Gate behind, yet that shadow has followed me. Enough!

Tomorrow I have a midterm for my government course. Screw it. I’ll just go over what notes I already have. I can’t read anymore… I’ll just make sure to stay up with the readings for this second half of the class. I can do the readings of the first half during my winter break.

So… I think my lowest grade may be in that course. But eh, me vale. I have a pretty good grade in my epidemiology course and, I figure, a passing grade in the required English course (Expos 20). My seminar is pass/fail, so all I have to do to pass is show up and write both essays. My first essay is due on the 7th of November and I am writing it on Los Angeles and something that has to do with land change. Most likely it will have to do with either the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles River, or Ballona Creek.

Tomorrow is the Red Sox’s parade and I have to miss it because of the stupid midterm. Gah! It might be another 80-something years before they win another World Series.

This Molotov song would make a great soccer chant.

Midterm season is upon Harvard. Students have their midterm exams and/or essays due (mostly) due this week. I already finished and submitted one essay Sunday night/Monday morning for my film analysis class on the film Metropolis. Wednesday I have a “quiz” (midterm) for my epidemiology class, followed by a trip to the Harvard Forest for my seminar on land change. I’ll be at the Forest from about 1 to about 8 (it’s an hour-and-a-half drive in each direction).

After that, I’ll have to write an essay for my government class that is due the next day, Thursday, at 1, and what other work I have for Thursday, followed by a midterm in my government class the following Tuesday. The problem is, I have not read a single thing for my government class since starting the class. The reading is so tedious, uninspired, and banal that I can’t do the readings. I am somehow scraping by.

I don’t know how I’ll be able to write that essay and pass the midterm without the reading. I tell myself that I’ll do the readings for the government course over Thanksgiving and Winter Break, but to be honest, I’ll probably want to do more resting during that time than reading.

I seriously despise the government course; I don’t enjoy it one bit. I no longer consider myself a government concentrator. Next semester, I will make sure to take a Spanish class, a music (hopefully, ethnomusicology) or anthropology course, a history course, and a government course taught by Prof. Steven Levitsky. I seriously need to better plan my next semester.

Welcome to Harvard, Diego. Suck it up. You’ve got four more years. This is only the beginning.

Ok, so I’m posting more than one video. Meh. Enjoy it. I don’t feel like writing an actual post on how yesterday was my birthday or whatever. I don’t like celebrating my birthday and I prefer people not mention it to me.

I’d like to adapt this song for a mariachi.

Another video up for Video of the Week is from MTV Mun2 via Guanabee. It’s an interview of Los Razos by an Englishman. That video made my day

When I was in Mexico this past August, I played this song as one of my dad’s friends sang the song. It’s been in my head ever since.