I'm staying in the dorms for s short time in San Antonio, while everybody else is enjoying their Spring Break in any other part of the world. My friends have gone to Houston, California, and some of the folks I know have even gone to Vienna for a choir tour. I did have a blast camping in a friend's ranch near Dallas last weekend, but now that I'm back I can't force myself to be productive. I slept all day today, and my eyes are sore of watching random videos on youtube and answering silly quizzes on http://www.sporcle.com. Yeah, that's my nerdy way of spending my long free day.

The down side of having too much spare time is that I totally misuse it. I could be looking for possible jobs after graduation, fine tuning pending applications or studying a little bit for my upcoming midterms next week so I don't have to cram and pull an all-nighter later on. Instead, I just dragged on with my day wasting time on the internet. I usually complain that I have no time to clean up my room or go to the gym. I had a whole day to do that and my room still looks like a disaster zone and the only sore muscles in my body are my slightly flattened buns. I still have two more days here before I head to South Padre and hopefully bid farewell to my last college Spring Break with a epic, booming Hurrah... but the next two days will drag on too slowly.

For what it's worth, I caught up with some movies I wanted to see. Watchmen wasn't that great, Slumdog Millionaire was touching and Che was also alright. I was surprised that some parents brought their 5 or 7 year old kids to a Sunday at 10pm show of Watchmen. I think they believed it was just another superhero movie, and then had to cover their kids' eyes and ears when Dr. Manhattan tried to pull a "multi-some" and when Nite-Owl and Miss Jupiter culminated their "business" with a fireball over the Hudson river. Funny as that might sound, I think these cheesy, yet quite graphic scenes in the movie would only create premature "curiosity" in those kids. I would be dialing the shrink if my kid was still awake during Rorschach's bloody, rampaging flashbacks.

I might be exaggerating, but parents, don't complain about your child's odd behavior if you don't even take the time of noticing the capital R next to the movie title before buying the tickets.

I also did some accent research (though unfruitful) for my character in my friend's movie. As I said in the previous post, I'm Marco, a foreign kid that doesn't entirely know what's going on during the movie. I also happen to be Argentinian. James, the director, didn't care much about the amount of accent I could put into my character, but I'd really like to experiment with that. Bogota-Colombian accent is very neutral, and although my accent is still noticeable, it's not evident in most of my lines. The truth is,The good news is I can do a decent Argentine accent. The bad news, I can do it Spanish, but not in English. Browsing through several youtube videos about Argentina, I couldn't come across one that had someone speaking English with the desired accent. I guess I can keep trying to think in Argentine Spanish and then translate to English while talking simultaneously, but that's really hard and sometimes I feel I'm just mixing up accents and end up sounding terrible.

Anyway, these are the two thoughts I could string together at this late time of the night. I'll probably end up posting again about the randomness brought about by boredom. Bis spater.

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Well... it feels like ages since I've written in this blog. If you have been wondering about my prolonged absence, it's not only because I tend to procrastinate (although I cannot deny it has something to do with me slacking). I started off my semester with a very relaxed schedule, with tons of free to hang out with my friends and such. It's my last semester at Trinity, so... it should all be easy going right?

Well, being the workoholic that I am, I once again decided to bite more than I could chew, and got involved in a bunch of stuff. I'm the International Club president, so I've been planning the greatest event we hold every year: the International Banquet. This event is basically the celebration of the diversity international students bring to Trinity University. Student performers dance and sing on stage to give the audience a little piece of their culture, while they enjoy a delicious meal based on recipes from all around the world. We also have a silent auction of items from abroad donated by international students. It's basically awesome, and one of the few formal events hosted by a student organization that get the privilege of having the University President in the guest list. This has obviously come with a lot of work and responsibilities: planning performances, what will be on the menu, publicity and all the tiny, gritty details that make your hair gray sooner than it should be but still make the event what it it.

Also, one of my close friends who graduated several years ago decided to become an independent film maker. He asked me to audition for a role in one of his movies and I got it! It's very exciting to be in a movie and play a very fun role. The catch is that every Thursday through Sunday I got to shoot the movie, including early morning scenes during the weekend. And by early morning I don't mean college early 10:30 am, I mean be ready on location at 6:30 am both Saturday and Sunday. It sucks, I know, but a cliche may as well serve to explain why I do this... no pain no gain.

Going off with my acting skills exploration, I also decided to do the Opera Workshop this semester. These last two days we had a master class where we learned about diction and singing techniques incorporated to dramatic expression and character impersonation. We're putting up 'Die Fledermaus', a comic opera by Johann Strauss. I play Dr. Falke, a man who is plan his revenge on an old "friend" to get back at him from a prank played on me in the past. I'm very calculating and manipulative; devilishly malicious without being evil. I'm pretty sure this is going to be a blast once we start rehearsing the acting part of the opera (so far we've focused on the music).

Anyway, this is my quick update for you. I'm glad I don't have any big tests or papers for the rest of the week, and I'm more than ready for spring break to start. And although I know I'm the king of broken blog promises... I'll try to put up those long-forgotten pictures and maybe update you on more fun stuff.

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