Bloody Summer
13:45I don’t know if it’s due to the heat wave or it’s just my body that refuses to rest and makes me wake up at 2 am. By 3:30, I gave up trying to sleep and got up to drink my cappuccino while reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. See, of course a movie is different from the book, but I didn’t imagine The Fellowship of the Ring had pushed away so many important details, keeping only what was strictly necessary.
In the movie Frodo is so young, or he seems so young, while in the book he is a middle-aged hobbit who tends to look youthful (could the One Ring be the secret behind so many celebrities' youth?). And Frodo didn't run away immediately after Gandalf told him about the danger of the ring, both of them created a whole strategy to keep Frodo’s absence from seeming suspicious to the other hobbits.
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Despite my exhaustion, I’m glad to tell you that the rain promised by the people who work in this area is already appearing in São Paulo’s weather forecast, which allows my new mission of handing out my zines in the subway stations possible, starting next Saturday. I just need – well – to make the zines. Something I intend to start today after the online movie session with the book club.
My main goal with the zines is to find new students for my English classes, and only that would motivate me to redesign the pinned posts on my Instagram, where I talk about my work as a teacher. How people still have the patience to use that creepy app is beyond me, but Instagram still is the ‘universal business card’, where people go to check your credentials, so it needs to be updated.
Ugh, and the regular domestic chores… Get your nails done, do the dishes, clean your house, why can’t it just stay clean? And why are there so many distractions on the internet? I wanted to see Transformers today, but who has the time to do all that (plus watering my one thousand plants) and still go out to buy something delicious to eat?
Anne Rios – Brazilian girl writing about Brazilian things
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