Apologies for letting the blog slide for a few weeks...
I've been trying to finish a piece of writing over the last month or so, and I'm afraid this blog has been neglected. No, not my thesis (sorry, if any of my professors are reading this, I swear it will get done too). Just some fiction inspired partly by my neighborhood - and in direct response to my Complutense mentor here who said "nothing ever happens in Carabanchel" and partly (ironically) by the class of said mentor last semester, which I audited, and where I got to learn a bit more about a chapter of Spanish history that shows up in my story. (And it is literally a
chapter, or chapters.) The story is about a young academic who comes to Madrid doing research on manuscripts and ends up in Carabanchel. I wonder what could have ever given me that idea? 😁
In any case, I'm afraid that between working at finishing that story, plus following up on my visit to the embassy and doing some of the lectures to college students that they asked me to do, plus the odd glance at reading for my thesis, plus staying on top of emails home and welcoming a few visitors, there simply hasn't been much time to blog. I promise
many blog posts to catch up on what I'm doing in terms of interesting trips and lectures and so on, but this is just an assortment of random details that I thought were charming and/or curious. Consider this entry an apology to my faithful readers.
