"The restoration of the forgotten, the ignored, the barely known past has in fact been the great project of Latin American literature, the proof of its writers' ambivalent love for their suffering countries." NYT Book Review

2007 Resolutions ( Read more... )

I wish that something more substantial than the worst haircut of my life had motivated me to post. Fuck, I'm not going to enjoy taking obligatory Christmas photos this year ( Read more... )

So while struck with a suddenly nostalgic mood in the sweltering Buenos Aires heat, I re-read almost my entire livejournal. It feels so juvenile to have a public journal, so trite and emo, but re-reading it brought half-submerged memories to the forefront of my mind. And the comments - so lovely, all those friendships, some of which have now gone ( Read more... )

New article. Well, that justifies fur months of "freelancing."

http://www.wiretapmag.com/education/42869/

Check it out - on teaching language as a way of teaching culture. or something like that.

is it so bad to want anonymous sex?

And I'm so disappointed with Argentina's performance in the World Cup today.

to everyone in milwaukee - I was a bit moody that week; if things didn't go as planned, or I didn't see you, or was weird....sorry.

being in new york is such a release. i'm ready to do this whole "real world" thing, and even more ready to have one last semester of ridiculousness. life is FUCKING GOOD.

unexpected bonus of the breakup: being able to blast christmas carols at all times

he fucking unfriended me on facebook. are you kidding me?

Check out an article I co-wrote about going down to Houston. It's about undocumented immigrants and their difficulties in recieving aid.

1) Go to Salon.com
2) Click on their link to their Katrina coverage
3) "No papers, no help" is the name of the article
4) You either have to belong or watch a 10 second ad in order to read the article
5) read &