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What you’re about to experience is hard fangirling, and I apologize in advance. Since this week’s blog theme is a free topic  and my mind is virtualy fried , the only thing I could think of was this song that I’ve been, honestly, abusing, given how many times I’ve pressed replay. The song’s called “GUY.exe”, it’s by Superfruit and of course I’m listening to it at this very moment. First of all, I’ll tell you something about how I got to know these guys. About 4 years ago I saw a video online of 5 people singing, but something was different about them. It was the “Evolution of music” by Pentatonix, and they chose a bunch of iconic songs to sing, delivering harmonies, bass and beat box completely acapella. I was so amazed, and what was also great was that they looked like simple people, nothing too distant from you or me. The 3 who are on the top row knew each other from highschool, the other two they found later, and formed this group. They went on a singing competition...

As some of you may know from my past posts, I am currently working on getting my master's degree, and since my relationship with psychology has suffered a crisis, I'll go on a limb here and say that I won't be doing any more studying, at least for a while, as I reserve my right to change my mind ;) Being honest, the experience hasn’t been as dreadful as I might make it sound; that comes off just because of my relationship with psychology itself, but the positive aspects of having this experience must be recognized, I think. I would say that I’ve liked getting to know professionals who have had years of experience in the specialized areas that I like (systemic and narrative practice), developing more knowledge on this areas, and most of all, what takes the price of the best aspect of this experience is knowing my classmates. Our group is small and is formed only by strong and caring women, who have been the best companions throughout this journey. Also I got to know th...

Since I'm doing a postgraduate degree, I already have a job. At the moment, I'm seeing patients, teaching a class and also working as an "errand person" for an elder woman, as well as selling some of my crochet creations. I have a lot on my plate, and honestly, I'm far from loving it. The amount of responsibility is almost unbearable, I don't know how I've managed to stay alive. This year's experience has helped me realize that I REALLY don't want to live like this for the rest of my life. I dislike oh so much the feeling of responsibility and urgency, and to always be running or late to everything. The stress is really not worth it.  I'm starting to fantasize about living a life outside of the grid, and what's most unsetteling of this is that I'm in the perfect moment in my life to choose one way or the other, ending each one in a very different outcome than the other. So... No pressure or anything. Knowing this, I wouldn...

So... I've seen that a lot of us are studying psychology. I find it interesting, but hey, at least there's a lot more weirdos here than I thought ;) This year I started studying here at FACSO to get a master's degree on child and adolescent clinical psychology. I graduated top of my class when I was getting my undergraduate degree, I did everything I had to do to be the best and excell at this, but just as I got accepted here, I started doubting. Perfect timing, huh? I'm starting to give more thought to the role of the clinical psychologist in society, and the fact of being a tool for normalization and imposing of power gives me the chills. I wanted to try to make it easier on the children and adolescents, who are very misunderstood and mistreated, but I'm not so sure of having a career made out of affirming people's sense of being wrong and bringing them to "the right way" of being... Like, who said what was right and wrong, and most importa...

Whenever it comes to me trying to choose a favorite movie, I always get stuck. I think I'm not able to choose just one that tops all the rest, so this time I'll review one movie that always leaves me with a good sensation, not that it's a typical happy movie or anything, maybe I'm just weird like that. The movie is "American Beauty" from 1999. It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. This film is fearly known although many years has passed since its release, and the amount of awards it won reafirm this. The movie won several of these awards, specially at the 72nd Academy Awards, where the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Kevin Spacey), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. It shows the life of Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) who goes trough what is commonly refered to as a midlife crisis, but I think that that term usually takes away the seriousness and relevance...