did someone say nerd

Im not really reading any book at the moment, because usually when i pick one up i tend to keep going until it's finished, and that's just not very doable while in university. I read a lot of short things online, like articles or essays on many topics, but nothing that might take up more than 30 minutes.

I guess the only thing i read constantly are comics, more specifically webcomics. I love illustration and design and there are many artists whose works i've followed for years. Right now the comics i'm following that update most frequently would be Prague Race, Shoot Around, Witchy, and Knights Errant, by Petra Nordlund, Suspu, Ariel Ries and Jenn Doyle respectively. These four comics are pretty different from one another, the first being about a group of friends that crosses over to a weird fantasy world, the second about a team of female basketball players and their coach caught in the zombie apocalypse, the third about a young witch that hates the system she's forced to be a part of, and the fourth about a soldier and his prisoner plotting against the margrave of their province. Since the authors make these on their own there's about one to three pages uploaded a week, so it doesn't take much time to keep up with the stories, but i'm usually finding new comics to read and i don't let go until i complete them, so actually i still end up using a lot of my free time on that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

all around me are familiar faces worn out places

There are many places i like in this city, but none that i feel particularly strong about. I mean, i love many places, like plaza de maipú, plaza de armas, the eurocentro, rosas street, balmaceda arte joven, the la moneda cultural center, the diana games from merced, etc. but it's not as if any of those is my favorite place, i mean, some of those i don't even frequent. What i like about places in general is when they have distinct athmopsheres, like when you can tell it's a lived-in place, where people don't only work or sleep, but enjoy. This is something that usually happens in places that work as hubs for people in their free time, because you can see what they do for leisure and how they interact with the environment, and even after the people are gone you can still feel like, the pulsations of the place? i don't know. On the other hand, I also like places that are derelict, and have been reclaimed by everyone and no one. Near my current home there are many places like this: empty lots, abandoned buisness, half-demolished stores (recently a completely burnt one!) and half-built streets full of rubble,  and all of these spaces have been tagged and painted by street artists, or used by kid skater gangs and the like. I feel like it might sound like i live in a wasteland, but it's not like that, because despite that all my neighbourhood is always brimming with people, because it's a really commercial area. I guess that's what i like about those places, that even when everything moves so fast and there is so much people, the "abandoned" places remain calm, but not  lonely because they are full of reminders of the people who do reclaim them.

(i answered only about 2 questions, sorry teach :'))

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there are a lot of things that make me happy, but speaking of today, i guess what made me the happiest was the lunch at the arts' canteen. today the menu was grilled porkchops with brown rice and mushrooms, and a side dish of chilean salad with purple onion and potatoes, with panqueques with jam for dessert. it was so good.... i lied in the ground for about 20 minutes afterwards thinking just about how great that lunch was. plus the weather was really nice while under shadow so it was all nice. it made me happy because i was famished and even if i hadn't been, food tends to have that effect on me when it tastes good (nice weather also has that effect although i usually prefer cooler days). maybe it's like an instinctual response to being fed? i don't know, but a nice flavor always makes me happy. in this case tho, i'm also happy because the arts' canteen has a pretty good money-to-food ratio.like, i got all that stuff for 2 lucas (plus a beverage and bread) and it was all tasty, while on the icei canteen it's slightly more expensive and way less savory. I think i found out about the canteen's quality about 2 or 3 months ago, and i haven't looked back.  some other lunches from that canteen that have made me really happy are: beef cazuela, grilled zucchini, stuffed potatoes with tomaticán and the always present mote con huesillo for dessert. i suppose happiness is in the small things.

a link within a link

I did pretty well on the assigned exercices, i don't think i had any trouble with them.

However what i did mess up were the class instructions, because i had headphones on when Teach told us we didn't need to do ALL the exercices in the links :') In my defense, I had put on my headphones at the beginning of the activity because the class was kinda noisy and it distracted me.

Some of the other exercices were kinda tricky tho, because the reading material wasn't too engaging and some questions were purposefully misleading.