Picture of my Life

Just thought that I should share this picture which so accurately describes my life right now. As much as I love school, it is killing me. 

Quotes from a Literary Birthday Celebrant

Rainy days always lead me to tumblr. One of the tumblrs I am following published a commemorative post for  the 465th birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote de La Mancha. While I have never read the novel, I grew up listening to my parents tell me the story over and over again. Don Quixote was also the first movie my parents took me to see in the annual Spanish Film Festival help by Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish language center set up by the Spanish Embassy. So the story of the delusional nobleman who travels across the countryside with his servant, Sancho Panza, to fight monster-windmills holds a special place in my heart.

Miguel de Cevantes

(c) anniecarbo.tumblr.com

The tumblr post listed down a number of notable quotes (translated to English) from the great Spanish writer which I would like to share:

1. "The pen is the tongue of the mind."

2. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

3. "By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom."

4. "It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."

5."The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings."

6. "Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

Until always,

lemonjuicesodapop

My First Post

As a child, I always had trouble keeping diaries. I would grab a pretty little notebook with a tiny padlock and promise myself that I would write in it every day. Unfortunately, the padlock would either be broken by my older brothers or I would simply forget about the diary's existence. The latter was the more common occurrence.

Now that I am eighteen years old, I figured that I should give this journal-ing thing another go. Hopefully I'll keep my promise to myself to always update and post on this blog. 

So maybe it's time for a short introduction. I am an eighteen year old college freshman (or freshwoman) majoring in literature. I love reading (of course!), theater, movies, music, art, watching sports, super heroes, food, foreign languages (especially Spanish), different cultures (especially Spain and Latin America), and travelling. 

I don't have a set subject for this blog. The posts will be about anything under the sun, but that makes the blogging way more fun. 

Comic book emperor Stan Lee signs his entries in the Bullpen Bulletins with the Latin word excelsior ("ever upward"). I'd love to have a catchphrase like that, but since Mr. Lee has already lay claim on that word, I'll have to search for another one. Until I find it, I will use a phrase from Julio Cortazar's "The End of the Game":

Until always. 

-lemonjuicesodapop