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Hasta La Vista, LJ

apologies for the pun, but it's been in my head for weeks now. I've been procrastinating on writing for the new blog I set up a couple weeks ago to serve as my Nicaragua journal, despite having things to convey to people (i.e., when i'm leaving, whether or not i know where i'm going, my new address, other faqs). it's not news that i've scantly used ( Read more... )

Practicar mi español un poquito antes de salir
al menos tratar Rosetta Stone unas veces. (Pero es demasiado Facil!)
Leer Harry Potter 6 en español

This is exactly why I can no longer listen to Heartbeats by the Knife

I don't really dance much, but this time I did
... I was glad that I did, this time

- Yo La Tengo

One night to be confused,
One night to speed up truth...

- The Knife

- Woke up at 6 a.m., again ( Read more... )

so, over the summer when i was working in Jackson for Obama, one of our favorite volunteers was a girl named Brittany, who was on her way to college, and stuck with us in the rain, and the heat, and could pretty much always be counted on to help us get people registered to vote. I went on a couple of registering missions with her towards the end of ( Read more... )

 
( End-of-the-year Meme! )

( an email I wrote to my friend Lisa about the election, since this is as much writing about it as I'll probably have time to do )

hopefully this weekend I'll have time to blog of my adventures in virginia, the final chapter of the "vagabond for obama" portion of my life. for now, I'll show you this (I come into the video about 30 seconds in), and will say that I'm positively delighted that instead of eternal existential dread of the Bradley effect and anger over spurious ( Read more... )

- Tuesday being debate #3

- Obama pulling ahead by statistically significant figures in national polls, and enough ahead in enough swing state polls to lower my anxiety about the election slightly

- Volunteering yesterday for a few hours in Arlington, registering a few people to vote in Virginia, and asking a lot of people in Spanish if they were ( Read more... )