So, to finish off my last weekend in Argentina (WHAT) I went to see a real Argentine play, a phrase which here means "not Shakespeare in translation."  Now, I had been duly warned by my cousins that Argentine plays are "muy argentina," but I heartily mistrusted this advisement, because it had seemed to me like it shouldn't matter what language ( Read more... )

I've spent the past three days or so trying valiantly to research for my directed research, but I seem to be running into a problem of Failure to Concentrate.  I'll have an hour or so of extreme productivity every day, and then the rest of the time turns into "what does this word mean?  What does that word mean?  Why do I care?  How is this ( Read more... )