My respiratory virus has turned into a stomach virus.

My stomach is swollen... literally.

I can't eat real food.  If I do, I suffer severe cramps.

So for the next three days I can eat drink water, gatorade, chicken broth, jello, tea and juice.
I wonder if that includes liquor.

On days two and three I get to add saltines or butterless toast!

I also ( Read more... )

It is ridiculous how well she has expressed what it feels like to learn another language.  I adore this poem.

Bilingual Sestina

by Julia Alvarez

Some things I have to say ain’t getting said
in this snowy, blond, blue-eyed, gum-chewing English
dawn’s early light sifting through persianas closed
the night before by dark-skinned girls whose words
evoke cama ( Read more... )

allow me to preface this entry with the fact that I'm drunk.

Okay, so now that we've got that covered, all typos and gramatical errors will be overlooked.

so, i was sitting outside of the union today, eating my subway, waiting to go to work, when a very attractive young gentleman walked past me. needless to say, there was some definite eye contact ( Read more... )

mind the gap!
tower of london
chicago!
a quarter of a chicken
all sorts of berry martinis
fun last night in london
worst flight of my life

details to come... but now, i sleep.

i´m fucking poor. thank you, europe.

i still have traveling to do. 11 days of traveling. traveling and staying in hotels and paying for my food everday is way more expensive than living with my abuela and eating her food.

i have $390. that´s nothing.

park bench, here i come.

solo tengo 4 días en sevilla, 2 en granada y 1 en madrid.  no quiero ir a madrid. es una ciudad igual al todas las ciudades grandes del mundo. quiero permanecer en sevilla para siempre.  hace calor. mucho. pero me encanta. no puedo creer que pasé 5 y media semanas aquí.  que triste, que triste ( Read more... )

uno: el brinkindans
dos: el cruzaíto
tres: el maigelyason
cuatro: el robocop

chiki chiki is the song that represented spain on eurovision. eurovision is a show in which all the european countries compete.  each country has an undiscovered artist and song tht represents their contry.

chiki chiki is everywhere.... and really obnoxious at this point. it ( Read more... )

 I completely and whole-heartedly adore Spanish.  It frustrates the hell out of me, but I can't help but hold a special place in my heart for the language and culture ( Read more... )

the complete shittiness of the yearbook almost brought me to tears today ( Read more... )

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