[This was supposed to go up yesterday, but Blogger couldn't drag itself past 0% publication.]
Contemporary Argentine Art has to be one of the easiest and most fun classes here. Once we had to travel to the center of town to walk along a major street and take pictures of two buildings that reflect a certain movement in architecture. Twice we have been required to go to a museum and take pictures of two works from a particular movement in painting... well, the first time it was paintings, but this one is more open as we have fallen headlong into the bottomless world of modern art, which includes things like oddly-formed mattresses hanging from springs on the wall. Tomorrow I'm off to hunt up such weird things from the '60s and '70s, tomorrow I'll order the photos, and Monday I'll pick them up before leaving for class.
Taking a colectivo (bus) used to be a little scary, but not so much anymore, especially making a particular trip a second time. The most fun is taking a colectivo from somewhere inside the general city center (el Capital) to the surroudning region that tends to be a little more industrial and residential (la Provincia). Why? Because, if you go at the right hour, the colectivo is full and you get to stand up and hold on to a seat back (if you're too short to reach the overhead handholds) and keep your balance while the colectivo zooms along longer stretches and jerks to a stop at the paradas (unless, of course, there is an extra lot of traffic, in which case it's only slugging along and jerks). This is a lot of fun! Of course, if you go at the wrong hour, such as around 11 a.m., you may end up being the only passenger for twenty minutes or more.
2 comments:
Hmmm, I just think it would be quite an honor to be the ONLY passenger on a collectivist bus, or whatever that was...
By the way, having dealt with Blogger's idiot-syncrasies, I have found that just stopping the 0% publishing, then going "page back" to your "new post" page (always good to save it somewhere, first) and then hitting "publish" again will often work.
I think it just hits at a bad time occasionally and you have to try over.
Unfortunately, this often shows up as a double post, which means you'll then have to delete one. (of course, this always works the first time...)
A little cumbersome, but better than watching that little wheel go around and around.....getting nowhere.
I think I tried going back and publishing again, with the same 0 result. But thanks for the idea.
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