In the morning, I watch this interesting interview with Terry Eagleton conducted by my colleague Nicolás Barbieri. Eagleton begins noting that Barcelona seems to be the city everyone wants to visit.
In the afternoon, I receive an acceptance email from an international scholar we had invited to give a talk to our research group. The first thing she mentions is that she had always wanted to visit Barcelona. Too sad to realize, once again, that our strongest academic asset is tourism.