Some of Life's Things

While the last week was fantastic, weather wise, today began with a gloomy approach and mad showers and rain all day long. Well, again I decided to begin talking about the weather because that is one thing I just felt now when I came out from the library in my way to the computer lab. A little shower interfere in my enjoyment of the outdoors.

I don't complain though. This rainy day was certainly needed in the island, particularly because for the last few months there has been an ongoing campaign for a declaration of a draught and the banning of hose pipes. Not more wasting water in the gardens some might say. The other day, my friends' landlady was commenting, over a Sunday's bbq and after she had fetched her own, quite big and varied garden for a charitable occasion, that people don't want to water their gardens with the residual water from home appliances. I really didn't ask what did she mean with that and if she water her huge garden with soapy water. I didn't think so.

Today I was talking with some of my colleagues, which is not so common to do because I am most of the time away from the university. The two of these colleagues were quite disappointed at the university and in particular at the department in which we 'study'. Both of them have been unlucky enough to experience negative situations with their supervisors, admin people, graduate school, etcetera. While I listened to their stories, I felt that there was something not too unfamiliar in them. To a great extent I have had similar experiences, for instance, the lack of supervision throughout the five years of my degree. However, I never made a point out of that to anyone else that was not close to me. I had never commented about that issue just for the sake of gossip as these two colleagues of mine are doing.

With this I am not saying that I don't like to complain, which is an activity I don't mind engaging myself on a daily basis. Nonetheless, I rather do it with a purpose of exposing my own-whatever-self, instead of exposing other's failures. Well, I have to admit I don't mind making statements about the fucked-up Mexican government, the oligarchies, the catholic church, my family, bad weather, etcetera. But there was something in my colleagues' voices that I didn't quite get right. What was their point for letting me know about their conditions? So I could gossip about that to others? Well, if that was their aim, so I did when the conversation with my friends included some topic about the department in which we studied and certain particular senior lecturer that we actually dislike. This lecturer is the one in troubles with one of my colleagues about which I was talking earlier.

What am I trying to say here today? Actually nothing in particular, just filling up a gap in information about the things that are going on in one of the lives of the contributors to this blog.

Please, accept my apologies if the information that I have dared to put here is unnecessary for you to bear with.