I'm kind of freaking out  about this whole Venezuela/FARC/Ecuador/Columbia ordeal that is going on right now.  Likeeee mini-panic attacks freaking out.   

This past Saturday I was fortunate enough to enjoy Mamma Mia! live, at the Colonial Theatre, here in Boston with a dear friend I had not seen in over a year. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 8 years, you probably know that the musical contains the music of Swedish pop superstars of the 1970s, ABBA. What you may not know (as I did ( Read more... )

 the word of the  month/semester is "eustress ( Read more... )

Hi, whoa, it's been a while since I've done this.  And because of that, I just wrote an entire entry and then deleted it.  Way to go, Alex.  I guess I've gotten bored with livejournal in the ... 5? ... years I've had this thing.  But we'll give it another go ( Read more... )

I NEED A FREAKIN JOB.  somebody help. wahhh.

¡Acabo de comprar una copia del libro "Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal" y estoy super emocionada ( Read more... )

I miss New England like whoa.  I miss New England and its contents so much that it has driven me to say "like whoa."  What a charming expression.

There’s just not much that feels better for your body than waking up at 5:30, eating some breakfast outside, surrounded by sights and sounds of  the Amazon, and then going on a 5-6 kilometer hike until your legs are on fire.  Crossing streams on logs high up above them, and trying to track wild boar by their sent (which is awful, by the way) are ( Read more... )

I don't have malaria!  I don't have dengue!  I don't have typoid! yayayayayay!

bad news: I do have lots of other evil bacterias swimming around in my blood stream.  fun stuff. 

So one of the bizzare things that your body does when adjusting to living at such a high altitude, when there is much less oxygen in the air, is seriously fuck up your sleep patterns.   Generally this comes in forms of slight insomnia, and you tend to wake up in the middle of the night because your brain is not receiving enough oxygen .. so it ( Read more... )