Et tu, Cthulhu

Por primera vez Magos Herrera viene a Xalapa. Maru está organizando el evento, que será en el Teatro del Estado el sábado 3 de Mayo a las 8 PM. Date cuenta, es el sábado que viene!

Todavía hay boletos, se están vendiendo en la taquilla del teatro - 350 pesos numerado y 250 general. Parte de las ganancias van a Amigos de los Animales, A.C.

No faltes!

Update for the English-monolingual brigade: The post is about the jazz concert my wife is organizing in Xalapa this coming weekend. If you really can’t stand languages other than your own, and you have a feed reader that can filter by tags, you can filter out my posts tagged “In Spanish” and “In Norwegian”. Thank you.

It’s that time of year again, which means I have to renew my Mexican FM2 visa. Everything was going smoothly until the immigrations clerk asked for the “founding declaration” of Novell and a list of all its employees (!). I provided the former document last year, so it should have already been in their files, and the latter document is not on the official list of required paperwork that I was given.

To top it off, these are confidential documents that Novell de Mexico cannot release to me, so the immigrations office has to make an official letter requesting it. Hopefully the added potential for screwups resulting from this process won’t be realized.

Today, most Mexicans celebrate the “Día de los Reyes Magos”, which loosely translates to “Three Kings Day“. Kids get their “Christmas” gifts today, in line with the Bible’s tale of the baby Jésus and the Three Kings. More importantly (for the grown-up atheists among us), there’s also delicious cake to be had - it’s called rosca and is a kind of sweet bread with dried fruit and a little bit of rum in it.

Maru’s mom makes this cake every year, and this year Maru decided for the first time to try her hand at making her own. She turned out five totally awesome roscas, of which we’ve only managed to consume two so far - with a little help from our friends.