"Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there—and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see. But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won’t be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end."

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

You might think that you have a good english... then Faulkner happens and you see how little you know and understand.

For the last 7 days I had to read, analyze, write about, expose about and discuss, As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, in American Literature class (yes, just 7 f****g days per novel, reading and writing every day including Sundays) and I can say 3 things:
1) I'm exhausted
2) Faulkner is SO DAMN COMPLICATED and AMAZING!!!
and
3) I don't have the level for this class but I'm gonna make it somehow.

Since we are in the subject, this is a quote from the book. Not THE quote, just one I was passing by right now:

"(...) I would think how words go straight up in a thin, line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and can not have until they forget the words."

And the word of the day is:

Voicelessness.
I love the way it sounds on a southern accent.

«(…)  in our contemporary society, which prizes individualism and shows little patience for the emotionally needy in our midst, it has become taboo to be lonely. (…) The result of such ideology is that we often keep quiet about our loneliness, our need for connection—more so today than a century ago. It seems unlikely that anyone would today join a “lonely club.” To do so would broadcast a discomfort with solitary individualism, and make all too apparent a vulnerability that seems needy and, to some, pathetic. We have internalized the emotional style of individualism, and learned to suppress the feelings that so often dog us. That doesn’t mean they aren’t there; it just means we can’t talk about them — which may make us even lonelier.»

How loneliness became taboo, Susan J. Matt in OUPblog

Moment: Since Abril 30
Mode: Study as much as you can, try not to stop working completely and don't forget to breath
State: Nervous, happy, alert, but relaaaaax
Activities: Read - Write - Read - Write - Read - Write - Sleep
Fears: :S Maybe this is too much
Challenge: Reading and writing only in english (assignments in english)

So since this is the only thing I'm seriously thinking about, that's what I can share. Look what I found!

Advanced Study Skills from the Pros

Sometimes the best way to learn is to forget. According to researchers, this is especially true when it comes to studying. In fact, some studies are saying that the majority of the traditional approaches to studying are WRONG.

Want to study effectively? Forget what you know.

So what's right and what's wrong? Well, according to Psychology Today and the director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, here's what you DON'T want to do when studying:

1. DON'T LEARN IN BLOCKS—Don’t study math, then English, then science. In one study or homework session, mix up what you are learning. Rather than mastering one skill before the next, take small steps in many skills. The theory is known as interleaving, and apparently the small progression in many skills approach leads to memories that are remembered much longer than the one-thing-at-a-time approach. That’s because each skill is learned in relation to the others. That doesn’t mean jumping from math to science to English—it means working on different skills that are related within a subject. So don’t burn out on quadratic equations by doing them over and over. Mix it up!

2. DON’T STUDY IN THE SAME PLACE—turns out that WHERE you study is as important as HOW, and the MORE places that you study, the better. That’s because the background information of what you see and hear as you are studying gets remembered as well. So if you study in the same place all the time, there’s nothing to make what you are studying stand out from all the other studied material.

3. FORGET IT… ALMOST. This technique has been researched many times. It’s known as the Spacing Effect and it says that to make studying effective you need to study, almost forget, and then re-study. The point is to make the brain work to remember what was studied in the last session. The harder the brain is challenged to recall, the better. So, don’t schedule a second study session too early on—that’s too easy. The brain has to be challenged to remember.

4. WRITE IT DOWN, BUT NOT IN CLASS. According to the article, the point of note taking is to challenge the brain to remember, so take notes AFTER class. This is a tad impractical while in school, but highlights the importance of review. Try writing a class summary after each class without consulting in-class notes. You don’t need to know word for word–just try to recall the highlights.

Yeiii, I really don't have to make an effort to forget :D

He estado pensando qué tanto de mi vida quiero compartir con la gente. Pensé en lo que compartía en mi cuenta de Twitter, lo que realmente quería compartir con todo el mundo/cualquiera o compartir con algunas personas, transmitir mensajes, mandar indirectas buenas y malas, quejarme, botar corriente de cosas que sentía; y también pensé en que si era que estaba compartiendo porque me estuviera sintiendo muy sola y fuera mi forma de interactuar con otros.

Los que me conocen saben que, sobretodo últimamente, no interactúo a menudo con la gente, ni comparto casi nada de mí, de lo que me pasa, de lo que pienso o siento en conversaciones con las personas en particular; y antes de que todas esas personitas espectaculares que existen en mi vida empiecen a decir que cómo se me ocurre decir que estoy sola, aclaro; si sé que están ahí y nunca he negado que la única razón para que no nos encontremos, es porque yo no aparezco.

Misantropía, apatía, antisocial; no creo, pero simplemente disfruto mucho estar encerrada en mi casa sola, me gusta, me hace feliz.
¿Entonces por qué compartir allá en Twitter, acá en el blog, cuando ni contesto al teléfono la mayoría de las veces? ¿Por qué cuando alguien en quien confío a quien quiero, me pregunta como estoy, le digo que bien y en Twitter pongo que la verdad es que estoy súper triste? Pueees, no es que me importe ser coherente, pero ¿cómo por qué o qué?

No estoy segura, pero en fin, creo que no quiero compartir tanto, es decir, si quiero expresar algo como esto que estoy escribiendo, sin preocuparme si le agrada a alguien, para quien esté suficientemente desparchado o interesado como para leerlo, y compartir libros, música, cine, cualquier cosa; acá está bien; pero eso de ¨¿Qué está pasando?¨ como que no. Entonces decidí borrar todos mis tuits y no seguir poniendo nada allá. Eso sí, no peleé con Twitter, yo sigo ahí leyendo a los que sigo porque me encanta, leer a personas, leer cosas cómicas o interesantes e informativas; sólo no quiero escribir. No me culpen si la determinación me dura hasta mañana, nunca he tenido problema con permitirme a mí misma cambiar de opinión en cualquier momento o por cualquier bobada, simplemente si me provoca lo haré.

Y esa es la historia de hoy y el desencuentro que tuve con la úuuuuunica red social que de alguna forma me ha llegado a llamar la atención.