So lately it´s been obscenely hot, especially for november (northerners, think of it as may). Consequently, I´ve been devoting a lot of my ridiculous excess of free time to shady parks and ice cream. Considering that it´s pouring rain today and there´s been a lightning storm going on since last night at about 1230, it strikes me as a good time to reflect on all the parks (that is, rather than try to experience any of them). I´ll start with my most recent park experience. Yesterday morning I was sitting in a plaza not far from where I live which is [View Full Entry]

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I’m feeling a bizarre mixture of things right now. Today I had sort of an insane excess of energy from the bizarre circumstance of my having slept almost the recommended 8-hours three nights in a row. Perhaps it’s because I didn’t exercise, I don’t know, but I found this energy translated into a sort of “logorrea” (a term I only use because it’s coming across a lot in my studying for my psych exam), an overactivity of the mind. I tried to write earlier, like perhaps a blog entry or something, but I just couldn’t focus enough on one thing- new [View Full Entry]

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You may or may not have noticed that I haven’t written now in over a week. This is behavior that really can’t continue if I hope to reach my goal of 1000 views before all this is over (we’re at about 750 right now). I suppose if I don’t I could just keep writing after I get back about my life back at Reed, which is even more absurd than all this I assure you. And I’d bet 500 uruguayan pesos that at least some of you would continue to read it. Enough procrastination, however. My excuse for not writing is [View Full Entry]

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Aspects of this place I´m fed up with Thoughts, in the Mendoza bus station Note: Just because something ends up on this list doesn´t mean I don´t accept that there's a logical explanation for it´s existence, nor that I condemn the people who manifest it. Nevertheless, it gets on my nerves and I´d rather not have to experience it. I don´t know, perhaps the fact that it frustrates me so much demonstrates that I really don´t “accept” it, in spite of my better judgment. In any case, here they are: -All the goddamned cops and security guards-that is, all the guys [View Full Entry]

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I guess I ought to write about my trip to mendoza before it gets superceded by my occupation with more current events (as it has already to some extent). The thing about this trip was that I did a pretty bad job of it; that is to say, I didn’t do many of the things that one is “supposed” to do when one goes to the places to which I went. But a pesar de todo, I still managed to have lots of really cool and interesting experiences. It was generally just a matter of not letting my enjoyment of them [View Full Entry]

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So Uruguay this weekend is one of those experiences where there's too much to say, and I know if I try to give an account from beginning to end I'll get hung up on certain parts and I'll never get through. But here goes anyway. So the first omen of how this trip was to go took place on board the ferry, when the nice lady let me have a cup of coffee for free because she couldn't change the 100 peso bill I had. These types of things make me far happier than I should, but the ample amount of [View Full Entry]

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Hey so one might consider this as sort of a follow-up to my last entry I suppose. Lots of things have happened since, some of them cool. First of all I don't know if I mentioned it then but at that point I thought I had defeated my sleep issues by deciding not to take sudafed in the evenings, but that has pretty much flown out the window. At least I think. It all depends on whether or not I got a normal amount of sleep last night. At first I thought not, and arose for rowing resigned to an empty [View Full Entry]

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So just the other day I finished my spanish class (and passed with flying colors of course), thus inaugurating a new etapa of my time here. With classes only on Monday and Tuesday now, and no other commitments but rowing and yoga, I find myself faced once again with extremely copious quantities of free time, which if not filled properly risk becoming the anxiety-ridden abysses of idleness into which I occasionally slipped during the beginning of my time here. Luckily, the risk is small because a lot of things have changed since then. For one, I just conquered, finally, my sleep [View Full Entry]

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Jujuy- I don’t know how to do justice to this experience. Before, I didn’t really have expectations- I mean obviously I knew certain things about the place that people had told me: that it was beautiful, remote, very indigenous, very different from Buenos Aires. But I didn’t have expectations in the sense of images, experiences I was anticipating. I knew the trip was comiong, but I saw it as like a blank, empty stretch of time- I didn’t imagine it in any particular way. In a sense I suppose that was bad, as I missed out on the pleasure of looking [View Full Entry]

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Well, I suppose it would be fitting to talk about this weekend. I spent a large chunk of it outside of the city, and now that I think about it this was the first time I’ve left since Iguazú, which now that I think about it was only a month ago. Lots of sudden realizations here. That’s all of course as long as you don’t count the few minutes that I spent on the other side of avenida General Paz when I went to Mataderos. You all can figure that out for yourselves. So this weekend officially started, I guess, on [View Full Entry]

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