Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Finally got in touch with Usercentric guy but didn't go nearly as well as I had hoped. After first talk, seemed like he was interested in bringing me in, but this time pressed me to get more specific about interests, but when I was too vague, said that there were plenty of people that were willing to hit the ground running. I kept on though, since the whole point of wanting to do this was to get back into the groove of thinking about my career, otherwise I would be still be in limbo come graduation time so talked him into maybe doing an externship, not paid, but helping out with a project and getting to shadow some employees, which is what I had expected for such a short time anyway. Still a little demoralizing though--hard to show confidence when I still feel like I have so much to learn and keep on getting slapped down. "Fake it until you make it"
Talk with Luisa Monday night, late as she was only one left watching TV. Found out she's only 15, left forum because friend left (sounds like a cultural amusement park, complete with lines) and was talking about a guy who left her strange message. She wanted to watch "The Mexican" but got nights confused and watched "The Kid" instead--kind of cheesy.
Talked with guy from XperienceConsulting on Monday--last minute invite for 6:30 but didn't give me metro stop and got Aribau mixed up with Arago so ended up several miles from where I needed to be. Luckily walked several blocks and was able to catch a bus right away--turns out it was in Gracia so definitely not within walking distance. Chatted for a while about usability.
Yesterday went to see movie "Corte de Cabello" at Verdi Park as part of Portuguese Film Festival. Strange. Girl gets her hair cut to see if fiancee loves her for her or for her hair. He hates it but marries her anyway, some friction and then she wakes up to see that he´s cut her hair even more to almost nothing (would think that would wake her up, especially since he would have to move her head to make it as even as it was but never mind). Then went into bridal shop and walked off with wedding gown in ghostly scene, watched by black guy who she is going to run off with until they get beaten by skinheads. So then she goes back to husband in pretty bad shape and everything is hunky-dory. Even considering that I missed first 10 minutes, still bizarre. Only about 8 other people for showing, everyone by themselves. Asked one woman what had happened during first part and she looked at me dumbfounded. I asked her if she spoke Spanish and she said yes and said she wasn't used to being addressed in such a fashion and that it wasn't normal. Said this several times before she finally told me what had happened at beginning of movie. Erin had mentioned something about how Barceloneans didn't smile at each other or talk to strangers and was wondering how people got together.
Erin was in my architecture group again so joined up with him at La Ciutat and ended up walking some 5 miles down Diagonal. Didn't think we were going to make it, especially since neither of us had had dinner, but after 2 hours we were there. Very different, from areas with lots of people, to commercial areas, to areas under construction to the mall and Forum. A lot of people on bikes, people taking a stroll in certain areas, other times, not a soul. Definitely a good project to get us noticing life of city.
Notes--this weekend guy with small dog on Metro (cute but definitely no seeing eye dog--then again haven't seen anything explicitly prohibiting it either), lots of families in general, out for day on beach or around I guess.
Talk with Luisa Monday night, late as she was only one left watching TV. Found out she's only 15, left forum because friend left (sounds like a cultural amusement park, complete with lines) and was talking about a guy who left her strange message. She wanted to watch "The Mexican" but got nights confused and watched "The Kid" instead--kind of cheesy.
Talked with guy from XperienceConsulting on Monday--last minute invite for 6:30 but didn't give me metro stop and got Aribau mixed up with Arago so ended up several miles from where I needed to be. Luckily walked several blocks and was able to catch a bus right away--turns out it was in Gracia so definitely not within walking distance. Chatted for a while about usability.
Yesterday went to see movie "Corte de Cabello" at Verdi Park as part of Portuguese Film Festival. Strange. Girl gets her hair cut to see if fiancee loves her for her or for her hair. He hates it but marries her anyway, some friction and then she wakes up to see that he´s cut her hair even more to almost nothing (would think that would wake her up, especially since he would have to move her head to make it as even as it was but never mind). Then went into bridal shop and walked off with wedding gown in ghostly scene, watched by black guy who she is going to run off with until they get beaten by skinheads. So then she goes back to husband in pretty bad shape and everything is hunky-dory. Even considering that I missed first 10 minutes, still bizarre. Only about 8 other people for showing, everyone by themselves. Asked one woman what had happened during first part and she looked at me dumbfounded. I asked her if she spoke Spanish and she said yes and said she wasn't used to being addressed in such a fashion and that it wasn't normal. Said this several times before she finally told me what had happened at beginning of movie. Erin had mentioned something about how Barceloneans didn't smile at each other or talk to strangers and was wondering how people got together.
Erin was in my architecture group again so joined up with him at La Ciutat and ended up walking some 5 miles down Diagonal. Didn't think we were going to make it, especially since neither of us had had dinner, but after 2 hours we were there. Very different, from areas with lots of people, to commercial areas, to areas under construction to the mall and Forum. A lot of people on bikes, people taking a stroll in certain areas, other times, not a soul. Definitely a good project to get us noticing life of city.
Notes--this weekend guy with small dog on Metro (cute but definitely no seeing eye dog--then again haven't seen anything explicitly prohibiting it either), lots of families in general, out for day on beach or around I guess.
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