The human brain uses up about 20% of the calories we eat. Some kids of Functional neuroimaging scans light up areas of the brain with a higher metabolic rate, which shows which parts of the brain are currently in use. This translating and poof-reading makes me tired, and I’m sure thelanguage areas are lighting up like Christmas trees, and metabolising like mad. So translating twisted Spanish burns calories. Therefore I…
It’s getting mad around here again. There I was, doing yoga every morning, critiquing my friend’s novel, writing fiction, and doing a bit of translating, a bit of housework and so on, feeling I was getting on with stuff rather well. Then the deadline for the translation job moved forward from September to June 8th. Oops! So now it’s full steam ahead on the translation, but it’s a particularly tiring…
Yesterday was the fiesta of Our Lady of Monserrat in Los Sauces. They held a special mass, followed by a procession with the statue. Religious art isn’t really my thing, but it’s a beautiful statue. The procession follows a fairly long route: the building in the background is the church, and they’re just beginning. I had to miss the rest of the procession and the loa (see yesterday) due to…
Yesterday I saw a notice, announcing that parts of the village would have a power cut this morning, but I couldn’t make out whether it included our house or not. So this morning I made sure to have the computer turned off and the kettle boiled by half past eight. And the power stayed on. So now I’m really enjoying living in a house with electricity.
Today is a local holiday in Los Sauces, for the fiesta or Our Lady of Monserrat. Other than the day off work, it’s a purely religious festival. Tonight at 6:30 pm they’ll be a special mass in the church (the big church on the main square on the main street – very easy to find.) This will be followed by a procession with the statue of Our Lady, and then…
Lately I’ve been writing slowly, but almost every day. Although it would help if the fiction writing was all on the same story. Sometimes I work on the second episode of Agent Hammer, sometimes I do a bit of a new story about El Hierro, and today I worked on the rewrite of “Hell Raiser”. It went down pretty well at the critique group. Even better the critiques largely agree,…