Konfabulator is amazing.

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Just purchased Harry Potter - in Uruguay.

Quite fascinating.

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Yesterday was the first day of a gargantuan restructuring of Montevidean bus lines, and I was therefore doomed, by the serendipitous cloud of misfortune which shrewishly follows me around, to go downtown. Any 2-bit travel guide you pick up will tell you that Montevideo has "European airs" to it, but don't ask me what that's supposed to mean. Now, a ( Read more... )

"Ooh, I just got a limo -- now I´m going to go find a prostitute." -Andres ( Read more... )

So my mother has been officially missing for a week and half, and I now have all sorts of new police numbers, ranging from local to national, in my phone. We've searched hundreds of hotels, several bus stations and airports, and under all the standards rocks one is supposed to upturn when someone goes missing ( Read more... )

Acho que enquanto estou no Brasil deveria escrever pelo menos alguma coisa em minha bela primeira língua.

Alguém sabia que aquela musiquinha do Jornal Nacional é na verdade uma parte de uma canção do Pink Floyd!? Incrível.

Tambem acho que a última vez que escrevi uma frase em Português com qualquer tipo de acento foi na Segunda serie...

To do:

-Read 2 books for a Comparative Politics final tomorrow.
-Write 5 page philosophy paper, due tomorrow.
-Pack everything I own at this place (which is so much more than I thought it was...)
-Somehow get 3000 dollars from a bank account in South America.

But first -- Decemberists concert! I can't miss it. I know there's work, but...this is

I need to start writing in this thing for myself.

If anyone has questions about the economic history of Singapore, starting tomorrow, please save some Google bandwidth and direct them at me. I know more about Singapore than C.M. Turnbull or John Clammer could ever dream of knowing. Every ebb and flow of Singaporean economy is understood by me, complete with comparisons to the more popular economic ( Read more... )