perdido en translation

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Originally uploaded by -djb-

Coming to Spain I expected to speak Castellano (Spanish) most of the time. Since I've been hanging out with Tylor and met a lot of fellow Americans, I've ended up speaking far more English than I thought I would. On top of that, and to my surprise, most of my co-workers speak pretty decent English (for not having lived in an English speaking country) and some, like my tutor, speak it rather well. Granted, I'm working on the business side of things and English is the de-facto standard and Telefónica is a rather big multi-national enterprise so it shouldn't come as a total surprise, but the quality and quantity surprised me nonetheless.

Anyhow, since I've been reading up on papers and reports to get familiar with what's going on in the bigger picture, I've been doing all of my reading in English. I don't mind it at all and it makes sense because the papers are written in English. I like listening to music while I work, so thankfully I brought along most of my tunes in my external drive and load what I like best to my laptop at work.

This multilingual environment has become a bit more complex than I first imagined: I was reading English, listening to people's conversations in Spanish around me, listening to my music which switches randomly between English and Spanish (featuring a small selection of French, German, Italian, and Japanese), while trying to write down notes and emails in English and Spanish...

Just dealing with one language is tough enough and at times like these I understand and appreciate why multi-core is an awesome concept for computing... but then you have to worry about making sure everything else keeps up with the cpus - the bus, ram, hdd... haha, I can be such a geek.

Anyway, since Mozart's my homie, today I decided to eliminate a layer of complexity and listen to music without words. After all, my job is to optimize methods, reduce waste, and increase efficiency, haha.

I'll have to load Beethoven, Rach & Tchaikowsky for tomorrow, but at least I have Prokofiev, Chopin, and Daft Punk to accompany Mozart for today.

For now, some T-Pain will do, though.

[Currently playing: T-Pain - Bartender ft. A-kon]