Congratulations to Michelle Bachelet, just elected as the first female President of Chile!!!!
Felicitaciones a Michelle Bachelet, primera Presidenta de Chile!
Viva la Concertacion! (Take *that*, Alianza!)

I'll be in GDD 126, possibly the only person in the double room. My roomate is a recent transfer from Duluth.
Woot!

Yeah. I enjoy watching spelling bees. Dog shows. I like cooking shows, too. Culinary-travel, especially. It's the easiest way of watching reality TV without that horrible guilty feeling, like eating a low-fat twinkie and an Atkins-friendly quadruple cheesburger, all washed down with a large Diet Bilz ( Read more... )

I'll be back in St. Paul tomorrow. Be warned, Mac!
-Me

Carola invited the whole family over for empanadas, mango sours (like a pisco sour, but with mango puree), and cola de mono (chilean christmas drink...aguardiente with cream and coffee...kicks the crap out of egg-nog...or bean-nog...). It was a nice sort of bookend for the amazing trip I've been on. Felipe and possibly Holly will be accompanying ( Read more... )

This is insane. I'm halfway through my last weekend in Chile ( Read more... )

Wow...the new metro is AWESOME! About a 5-10 minute walk from my house, and it has that new-metro smell! Mmmmm...spackle...I tried to be first in line, but unfortunately, I had class, and President Lagos and his wife got there first. ::shakes fist:: Oh, well ( Read more... )

Plus my comments! Yay!

You Know You're From North Jersey When...

You live within 45 minutes of at least three different malls ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm going home in two weeks. Holy crap. Two weeks to take 2 final exams, one regular test, hand in a final paper, get a decent start on another final paper, and ride the new Metro Line that's opening up about three blocks from my house, all before I have my head explode. Big "thank you" to Phonology Professor Hiram Vivanco, who has just ( Read more... )

Between the tons of work I have to do, I`m trying to hold on to my last few weeks of having a social life here...so I'm cramming my schedule full of everything ( Read more... )