During the week, I always think about what my plans for the coming weekend would be. Especially since I normally have three day weekends, it gives me a lot of time to get out. I can go to the ocean in about 90 minutes, if I choose to. And it always seems like a great thing to do, while I am sitting at home ( Read more... )

It looks like I haven't updated in two weeks. Not because not much has happened, but because too much has been happening, although most of it isn't of a lot of consequences. I've started some new classes, and they aren't really challenging, but they are difficult. Mostly procedurally, the details of that are technical ( Read more... )

I don't feel like doing things here, as much as I feel like I have a ticket to punch ( Read more... )

September was a hard month for me. Not terrible, but hard ( Read more... )

Today, I decided I had to make something of the National Day weekend (well, I went to a Fonda yesterday, so that is also something), so I headed on a bus to Viña Del Mar. This is my second trip there, and my first solo. When I was originally coming here, back in April, I was wondering whether I would make it to the coast on my first weekend or ( Read more... )

It is now eight days after my really sick day, and I am still tired, and unaccountably depressed and lethargic. Also, unusually for me, I have a loss of appetite that is really bothering me. Well, its not bothering me, but it should be.

After I got home from Manquehuito, I was understadably tired. The next day, instead of recovering, I got worse. I got a fever and a hacking cough, and for the first time, I had to call in for work. I managed to work Tuesday and Wednesday, but I am still tired, really sick, and I've been scared because sometimes I have felt I could barely even ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, I ended up climbing Manquehuito, a mountain just on the north side of Santiago:


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This is something I've been thinking about for a while, an interesting fact about my life that explains a lot of where I am right now ( Read more... )

Today is one of those days where I feel turned upside down and renewed, without a single specific reason to cite for it, except for perhaps exhaustion. I had a 2.5 hour class in the morning, an hour a half substitute class in the afternoon, and a class moved back to the evening. Then I walked home from Santa Isabel, through the wide streets of ( Read more... )