Coisas que não mudam #500

Gatos que dormem enquanto se corrigem exames

e gatos que querem atenção quando se corrigem exames

são gatos, não precisam de justificar as suas escolhas.

Caprichos #543

Thankful students

Estudantes agradecidos

Caprichos #542

A friend's gift these days

Presente de uma amiga por estes dias

Ditto #409

You complain that you have met with an ungrateful person. If this is your first experience of that sort, you should offer thanks either to your good luck or to your caution.

--Seneca

Parece que estou a ouvir #291

I Don't Care
by Ed Sheeran & Justin Beiber*

I'm at a party I don't wanna be at

And I don't ever wear a suit and tie
Wonderin' if I could sneak out the back
Nobody's even lookin' me in my eyes
Then you take my hand
Finish my drink, say, "Shall we dance?" Hell, yeah
You know I love you, did I ever tell you?
You make it better like that

Don't think I fit in at this party
Everyone's got so much to say, yeah
I always feel like I'm nobody, mm
Who wants to fit in anyway?

'Cause I don't care when I'm with my baby, yeah
All the bad things disappear
And you're making me feel like maybe I am somebody
I can deal with the bad nights
When I'm with my baby, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
'Cause I don't care, as long as you just hold me near
You can take me anywhere
And you're making me feel like I'm loved by somebody
I can deal with the bad nights
When I'm with my baby, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

We at a party we don't wanna be at
Tryna talk, but we can't hear ourselves
Read your lips, I'd rather kiss 'em right back
With all these people all around
I'm crippled with anxiety
But I'm told it's where I'm supposed to be
You know what? It's kinda crazy 'cause I really don't mind
And you make it better like that

Don't think we fit in at this party
Everyone's got so much to say, oh yeah, yeah
When we walked in, I said I'm sorry, mm
But now I think that we should stay

'Cause I don't care when I'm with my baby, yeah
All the bad things disappear
Yeah, you're making me feel like maybe I am somebody
I can deal with the bad nights when I'm with my baby, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (oh yeah, yeah, yeah)
'Cause I don't care as long as you just hold me near
You can take me anywhere
And you're making me feel like I'm loved by somebody
I can deal with the bad nights when I'm with my baby, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (no)

I don't like nobody but you
It's like you're the only one here
I don't like nobody but you
Baby, I don't care
I don't like nobody but you
I hate everyone here
I don't like nobody but you
Baby, yeah

'Cause I don't care (don't care) when I'm with my baby, yeah (oh yeah)
All the bad things disappear (disappear)
And you're making me feel like maybe I am somebody (maybe I'm somebody)
I can deal with the bad nights (with the bad nights)
When I'm with my baby, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (oh yeah, yeah, yeah)
'Cause I don't care as long as you just hold me near (me near)
You can take me anywhere (anywhere, anywhere)
And you're making me feel like I'm loved by somebody (I'm loved by somebody)
I can deal with the bad nights (yeah, yeah, yeah)
When I'm with my baby, yeah (oh)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
___________

* Not a particular fan of either... but once in a while comes a song that I hear on repeat over and over, and over... maybe it's all the grading...

Coisas que não mudam #499

Marking season is back since Saturday... and there's still half way to go.

Desde sábado... e ainda falta metade.

Palavras lidas #415

CLI

Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason;
But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,
He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
No want of conscience hold it that I call
Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall.

William Shakespeare

Retirado do contexto #267

Academia attracts a LOT of odd people...

... you cannot make this up!

Coisas que não mudam #498

Time goes by

and goslings grow fast

Pormenores #156

And in the middle of the greenery

a pouch of daisies!

Espantos #582

Not sure what to make of it (is it this?),

but it's quite impressive

not as much as blue bells... of course!

Coisas que não mudam #497

It is a truth universally acknowledged...

Espantos #581

Maio é mês de morte no Evereste... engarrafamentos pioram tudo.

Every May is deadly on Everest... congestion makes it worse.

Retirado do contexto #266

EU election day in the UK

possibly the closest we'll ever get to a second referendum

Primavera #104

Ongoing spring in Warwickshire

with big and small daisies

and flowery trees lining up the roads

Coisas que não mudam #496

British aerial landscape

Palavras lidas #414

Não tenho pressa: não a têm o sol e a lua
Alberto Caeiro

Não tenho pressa: não a têm o sol e a lua.
Ninguém anda mais depressa do que as pernas que tem.
Se onde quero estar é longe, não estou lá num momento.

Sim: existo dentro do meu corpo.
Não trago o sol nem a lua na algibeira.
Não quero conquistar mundos porque dormi mal,
Nem almoçar o mundo por causa do estômago.
Indiferente?
Não: filho da terra, que se der um salto, está em falso,
Um momento no ar que não é para nós,
E só contente quando os pés lhe batem outra vez na terra,
Traz! na realidade que não falta!

Não tenho pressa. Pressa de quê?
Não têm pressa o sol e a lua: estão certos.
Ter pressa é crer que a gente passe adiante das pernas,
Ou que, dando um pulo, salte por cima da sombra.
Não; não tenho pressa.
Se estendo o braço, chego exactamente aonde o meu braço chega -
Nem um centímetro mais longe.
Toco só aonde toco, não aonde penso.
Só me posso sentar aonde estou.
E isto faz rir como todas as verdades absolutamente verdadeiras,
Mas o que faz rir a valer é que nós pensamos sempre noutra coisa,
E somos vadios do nosso corpo.
E estamos sempre fora dele porque estamos aqui.

Caprichos #541

Quatro semanas depois da Páscoa / Four weeks after Easter

o segundo ovo de páscoa / the second easter egg.

Caprichos #540

Ensaimada de chocolate y de nata

Retirado do contexto #265

Animal facial expressions. Toto.