Happy Mexican Independence Day!

[guanin]

To celebrate, I just bought myself a Mexican history book, because my barebones knowledge about my own country is embarrassing by now. I did learn some this past year, but this subject is so humongous that there's no way to keep up. Meanwhile I'm being inundated by books about Tudor England and backbiting nobles and Greek Literature and humanism and the Reformation interspersed by quick shots of Christopher Moore to inject some wacky fiction in my system. This research is going to take me at least a year. It's insane. Why do I always have to go for the hardest ideas? Why?

And why are there history books that cost $140? This is horrible. *cries*

Also, dealing with banks sucks. A lot.

Comments

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Ah, viva Mexico, and all that. I may have a can of celebratory beans later in honor of independence. And yell down at people from my bedroom window for making too much noise in the middle of the night. That's close enough to el grito, right?

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I may have a can of celebratory beans

Hee. That sounds fitting. My grito will be much more quiet and may involve English history, which is sad. Maybe I'll set up my little Mexican flag on my desk.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I may or may not heat them up and/or eat them straight from a can. Damn, I wish I had a Mexican flag. I don't even have an American one, I fail at patriotism in all its forms.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I finally bought a Mexico badge for my bag. In Edinburgh. *face palm* I never remembered while I was actually in Mexico. Though itt pales compared to the huge one my cousin uses as a curtain.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I've always felt a little leery of flags. I don't even know why. I had a teacher who collected them and had them hanging all over his room, so when I was in Mexico I bought him a big, beautiful, silk one. But I wouldn't hang one for myself.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Annnd now I know Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican army's victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla, not Mexico's independence. Yay, I learned something! Also, I wholly approve of your Christopher Moore-based strategy for combating research fatigue.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

And that's all I know about that. We were supposed to study the French invasion deal in my course, but we couldn't squeeze it in. So every time it comes up, I'm really quiet and pretend I'm invisible so no one will notice that I don't know anything about it. Hence the book buying. Yeah, not reading CM when his books are in the house simply does not happen. I must.

[drakochi.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I'll have to buy a Russian history book because I am ashamed to not know enough about the country where I was born. Then, I could stop avoiding conversations that discus Russian history/politics. Sometimes I think that when people learn what nationality you are they assume that you know all about it.
"I heard it was hard living in the communist days. Do you think so?" or Stalin did this or that... and I am just trying to scape the convo!

I agree, banks suck. >_>

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I hate that. That's why I took a politics course this year so I finally know something about the insanity of Mexican politics (though I have no idea what's been going on since 2000). I know a little more about Puerto Rican history, but only because it's much less complicated and not really about what happened in the 20th century. And then they always look at you like you've shamed your country or something. It's horrible.

Banks are evil. The whole system is designed to leave you in abject confusion 24/7.