Not So Deep Thoughts

Vanesa Pérez-Sauquillo (accésit) y Jesús Francisco Bernal Castell (Premio Adonáis 2011) ayer despúes de la ceremonia en el Ateneo de Madrid.

Paul Gladis:

Hello. Hello Google Indexing Spiders!

Vanesa has a new website located at http://vanesaperezsauquillo.com/

and a new blog

http://vanesaperezsauquillo.blogspot.com/

Cool beans!

Wow, it’s gotten kinda quiet around here…

Helloooooooooooo… Heeeeeeeelloooooooooooooooooooooo…

::Paul runs his finger across the series of dusty tubes that his blog used to regularly frolic through, his lips pursed and brow furrowed, wondering how he could have let his unfinished collection of haphazard yet profound quotidian expositions fall into such abject wretchedness::

::sigh::

Well, I’m not making any promises here, but I’ll be damned if I abandon this to go and express my innermost thoughts, joys, fears, preoccupations and non sequiturs in 140 characters or less. But for the time being, I should probably get back to doing the work they’re paying me be here for rather than ambling around these dusty annals of reminiscences.

Peas.

Paul

Just in case the wedding bells weren’t loud enough to get the news to the 5 people who read this blog, I’m breaking out the wedding gong!

I’M GETTING MARRIEDoooooooonnnnnnggggggggg!!!!

Vanesa and I will be happily married in April ‘09 here in Madrid and a grand time will be had by all. Much of my family will be making it over the pond for the event and that alone makes me all happy inside. Spain is my home and is quite a lovely country, so it’ll be a pleasure to show that to everyone who hasn’t been here before.

Only 5 months to go and we’ve already got a date, a church, a reception hall and the bridal gown. Next step is mailing out the invitations, which we’re designing right now, and figuring out where everyone is going to stay for the time they’re here. We’re trying to think of it as a scavenger hunt to make the process fun instead of the overwhelming fiasco that people try to make it out to be.

Good times!

Peas!

How cool is this! A year or so ago I was asked by a fellow teacher if I would be interested in doing some voiceover work for a short animated film.  I’d totally forgotten about it until the other day when she sent me an email with this trailer for the finished work.

Even cooler was glancing up to the title of the film after 5 minutes clicking around the website and seeing this:

Hollywood here I come!  Michael, you got room on your couch?

Last weekend Vanesa, Miquel, Skyler and I went to Puerta del Sol to participate in Madrid’s Big Freeze 2009.  You can see the back of my head at 9-11 seconds and then all smiles from Skyler and Miguel.

Here are some other ‘pranks’ that make me giggle.  Wish we did more of these…

When did ‘This year, I’m going to blog more often.’ jump to the top ten of ‘The Most Common New Year’s Resolutions.’?   Was it 5-6 years ago, once the world figured out how easy it was to make one?  Does getting around to not breaking that resolution on January 17th count?  Did we all really think we had something THAT interesting to say to the world?  Or was our message not meant for the world? How many people have blogs they’ve never told anyone about - their own electronic diary hidden under their bed?  And for the others, do we really want the rest of the world reading what’s going on in our heads?  What crosses a toddler’s mind when they discover they’ve had a blog (and that they were remarkably good typers) since before they were born?   How many marriage proposals have taken place over a blog?  At least you can delete it in time the next morning if you drunk-blog.  Am I more myself when I have time to think and type my thoughts?  Funnier?  Wittier?  More cynical?  Will I be fired for something I one day wrote?  I’m pretty sure I can never run for political office now. Is how much you love someone quantifiable by how many posts exist with their name in it?  How many people are even reading this?  Is how much they love me quantifiable by how often they come to my page? What is my Google PageRank?  Oh, I wish I had thought of that blog!  Oh, I have a GREAT idea to write about next time!  What was I going to say again? Ahh, I’ll do it tomorrow.

And I got a ‘Year In Review’ photo selection coming for your viewing pleasure.

I might even through in some updates for all of you who feel like I’ve fallen off the face of the earth.

Maybe a rant just for good measure.

Until soon!

Paul

And I’ve already beaten Minesweeper at its hardest level!

What do I do now? Solitaire?? So 1990s.

Well folks, I’m a certifiable adult now!

In about 5 minutes, I’ll be walking out the door with my button down shirt and tie, bagged lunch in hand, making my way to my first real OFFICE job!

I can’t wait to jump right and and get to work, be productive, get things done. Other Directors of Studies, LOOK OUT!

Alrighty, I should probably get going.  I’m already 25 minutes late, and that’s not counting the walk over.  Wouldn’t want to make a bad impression.

Updates to come.