locked in

Well, today was a turning point.

The building I work in has no door handles because it is still under construction, but it does have locks. As humiliating as it is, I got locked in the bathroom with nothing to open the door. At most the room was 3x4ft, and oh yeah, nobody was going to be around until the evening, maybe.

After 20 minutes of various experiments to open the door, it proved to be impossible. So I tried my luck, I waited for someone to come. What a terrible ironic metaphor to my overall situation. I got locked in around 9:30, first I flipped on the iPod and listened to Ira Glass for a while, then some other philosophy podcast, I was thinking hard. Then after a while of this thinking, I realized that my time would be better off exploring a place like Barcelona.

A little after 12, when I finished up thinking and ran out of patients, I kicked open the door. It took about 10 tries, I didn't want to break the door more than I had too. The lock flew across the room when the door flew open, I owe some money to Eulalia.

As terrible (and smelly) as that experience was it got me to take some time to step back and think about what I should really be doing with my time. I was cleaning seed 30+ hours a week alone with not to much to do around town. There was absolutely nothing wrong with what I was doing, simply, it was not what I should be doing with my time here. In fact, I will miss Iris, Eulalia, Juan, and Isis a ton.

I will miss the late night combines just outside my window as well....

And I have to admit the moon is pretty freakin' crazy here.

Well anyways. I'm going to try and get a bus into Barcelona early monday morning. Still have a few things I want to do here, i.e. the observatory.

Today I learned I am sort of in a valley, I did not realize it because it is so incredibly huge. Iris and I drove up the valley, town after town, all the way to the top where Franco built a hydroelectric dam that runs on mountain water. In fact, Franco put a pretty huge investment in electricity, most of the stuff he built is still in use, and there is a lot of it.

You know, the place is gigantic. You can see Iris sitting on the edge!

Complete with a gondola for the tourist, not me! It was not running either.

Things cleared up a bit today.