Iva’s WTF site – Squirrelism.net

Back. I have things to explain to people, especially to one of my bosses. I so hope he will understand because, well, I adore my job and I don’t want to lose it less than two months after I got it!

-My internet wasn’t working properly for 2 weeks and my email wasn’t responding properly. I think it was a server change with my main ISP and sudden refusals of mails from other account…either that or I had a virus. Now it finally works, I didn’t lose my address book and stuff, but I am having problems with sound on my computer…every once in a while I get the following screen of death and then my sound is gone and unless I reboot, the computer is MUTE. Don’t ask me why I don’t reformat…I have so much work to do and it would take up too much time and, also, I have no idea where the CD with the soundcard drivers is.

-I have something too…I don’t know if it’s a virus, but ever since a small cold I had at the end of January, I’ve been having pain under my left shoulder. It hurts all the time, which is hard to believe, but it does! The most of the time it’s like pain in the bottom from injections…but my back is definitely not my bottom and I had no injections, so this is sick…dealing with constant back pain for three weeks. In the end, looks like I’ll have to go to the doctor and I hate doctors because lately they were just screwing up every single diagnosis.

I’ll post a decent entry tomorrow or something. Need to email a bunch of people and explain them what was happening!

Some promotion: Natalija has a new blog. So does Inge and she also turned 25 on Saturday:)

So…yesterday I saw Buena Vista Social Club. The band, not the movie. They were amazing! I’ve always liked Cuban music and I loved the movie which described the life of the band members (some of whom died in the meantime, unfortunately…but their replacements are amazing musicians as well), so when I saw that they’re touring, I bought tickets for my mother, father and me and presented it to them over a dinner, as described in one of the previous entries. Mom caught the virus that caused my last week’s horrible cold, so she decided not to go, but dad and I found a friend to accompany us. And damn, it was GREAT. Do you people know who Teresa García Caturla is? No??? Damn, you should google that woman. Here is a wonderful interview with her. Her voice is great and, even though she’s elderly, she’s an entertainer I have not seen before. Unlike the rest of the band, she was dancing with the audience, she dragged one young man to the centre of the stage to dance with her and two small children were dancing with them. It was so beautiful, so sincere, so different…as the friend who accompanied dad and me said, it makes one feel like they’d get on the first plane to Cuba and stay there forever.

I have a video of Buena Vista Social Club (or Havana Lounge, depends on how you want to call them) performing Chan Chan and I’ll upload it…but later. Remind me if I forget it.