OMG! This song. This video! It was filmed in Guatemala! It was filmed in Antigua! (And Tikal. And Lago Atitlán. And probably Jocotenango.) I wasn't even expecting it, and then all of a sudden OMG I know where that is! I've been there...and there. And chicken buses! Omg, I miss it so much. I think my heart just crumpled into a thousand ( Read more... )

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Muy típico...entiendo todo lo que dice el mexicano (menos 'wango'. Qué es wango?? o.O; ) pero cuando la española empieza a arrojar su propia jerga no entiendo ni madres nada.

De todos modos me dio risa ;P

Every once in awhile when I get bored and listless I watch TEDTalks lectures. I started on Netflix, but then I realized they have them on Youtube as well. They're actually pretty fantastic, most of the time--people have really great ideas and talk about some really interesting things ( Read more... )

Today, Andres and I took one of our animals to the vet for the first time. Ever since we got him, Melo has exhibited signs of partial facial paralysis, one of the results of which is that he can't close his left eye. This had mostly seemed to be an annoyance for him moreso than a real problem, until the past week when the eye got noticeably more ( Read more... )

I'm mostly posting this for diosa_iluminada, jeje. A story in the tradition of biblioteca/librería ( Read more... )

o.O This video actually makes Tucson look all metropolitan and sexy:


Downtown Tucson Partnership Promo from John Sears on Vimeo.
I also would never have believed that the Ronstadt Transit Station (read: downtown bus depot) could ever be portrayed in a graceful and attractive light, but I guess I was mistaken. xD ( Read more... )

This morning has been odd. I am completely on a nocturnal type schedule recently and can't seem to rectify this, so Matt and I have been hanging out a lot by night. At 5AM we ended up at McDonalds (I DO IT FOR THE HASH BROWNS, OKAY.), and I consumed two things that are almost certain to end badly for me, sickness-wise: well, hash browns, duh, and ( Read more... )

dflkjfljdfs. No sleeping for Rachel..again. Apparently. Sadly, El Universal videos aren't working for me (again...), I'm too burnt out to read anything and absorb it, and my hands are DEFINITELY too shaky for painting, so...

Meme! Bwaha. Stolen from jetaimerai, only from Tumblr, heh.

( Yay wasting time. )

Yesterday I went to get myself an Arizona State ID since my Massachusetts one, which I've been using for ID for the past 5 years, finally expired. I was incredibly excited when I first received my new card, because I noticed that it has no expiration date. Seriously. In the spot where the expiration date should be, it's just a blank space. (And ( Read more... )

Bwahahaha, so last night/early this morning I found the following song, and I think it sums up like 75% of the frustration that I have with learning Spanish. Everywhere you go, any word you know probably means something different from the definition you learned for it, and therefore your vocabulary always carries the potential of getting you into ( Read more... )