Current mood:	off on your merry way
Current music:	Grandaddy- "The Group that Couldn't Say"

"Yeah!" is what we had
I really hate Tuesdays. They're the day of the week farthest from fridays without having the excuse of being Monday. Mondays are a necessary evil-- Tuesdays are just cruel and ruthless. It's also worth noting that every single horrible thing that has ever happened to me has happened on a Tuesday (I actually have no real evidence to back this up-- I'm talking out my ass, as I am prone to doing).

This weekend was fun. Rease and Rachel, these two girls from St Louis, MO I met in a hostel three years ago (holy shit) came down to Buenos Aires and hung out for a few days. I of course played the role of the convivial host and paraded them through the city for laughs and general awesomeness. That's actually not true-- they were here for four days, two of which I was unavailable. But still! It was awesome seeing them again after so long. I have found that I am an excellent tourist guide because I just make up lies about everything we see. "You see this cave here? This is where the few surviving homeless people fled after the Great Homeless Person Slaughter of 1989. They would feast on rats and each other's feces and pray to their made-up goddess, Indigencia".

The excruciatingly slow process of finalizing my legal status in Argentina has taken another slow dinosaur step into completion. Of course, only after spending hours upon hours in the immigration offices and running frantically through the city gathering paperwork and getting things stamped and approved and handing in background records like school assignments to jaded bureaucrats.

Other than that, things have been surprisingly pleasant in my life. Everything seems to look like it's about to fall apart but then unexpectedly rise to the challenge at the very last minute. I'm not sure if this is directly related to the sudden turns in my romantic life, but it certainly feels that way. Work and school have grown gradually more intense and draining, and I'm knee-deep in movies and reading material, but I'm strangely content. I'm moving around. I'm seeing people. I dunno, it's exciting. I feel like I've shaken off the ennui and realized that I am surrounded by possibilities. It's brilliant.

And in the absence of more words,
some pictures!

in Costanera Sur, with Laura, Ale and Etienne




Mike taking pictures.


with La Cosa (not her real name, by the way).


La Cosa being adorable.




Mariana in the kitchen.


Nany!




Nany with some douche.


With the aforementioned Rease and Rachel.


Puerto de... Putos?






I'm pretty sad you can't read this awesome Engrish we got in the train. It says:
"My other half! Today is the day I meet OK other half! the fluffy cards in the sky. the chirping no go Smiling. Flowers ARE to have as... LOVE. You are my best friend."