Music and other Serious Things

I realize that I´ve been doing this blog for a long time, and I´ve written nothing about music. I feel that this is an innaccurate representation of my time here as seeing live music has been one of my primary activities since I got here and I feel that it will become increasingly so.

So a partir de ahora (it means ¨from now on¨ but I like it better) I´m going to write more about music. Actually I´m going to write more in general, but writing about music will serve as a welcome break from writing about more serious things--like how I´m dealing with the emotional fallout from my father´s death, or worse still classes (joke guys, that was a joke).

And while I´m on the subject of joking about serious things I´d like to stop to make a brief aside, which I´ll probably elaborate on more later. It sometimes seems really hard to take things seriously that other people take seriously. Particularly relationships. I was once in a taxi with a couple of friends from the program and the two girls were talking about this Argentine guy she met and whether she should go ahead with this guy, etc. Perhaps it would have seemed trivial to me anyway, but now in particular these sorts of things either make me scornful or amused. I´m working on being more of the latter and less of the former.

That being said here´s a solemn and most serious promise that I will write more about a variety of topics. Those of you with no interest in what I have to say about music, may feel free to skip these entries and move on to more serious things. Or you could adopt my grandmother´s approach to her entertainment choices. As she puts it ¨I´ve had enough sadness in my life [lost her husband, son, son-in-law] I don´t need any more of it in my free time¨. Fair enough.