i really love the way coffee gets me high. last weekend i had cafe con leche and my friends made me drink sangria to calm down ( Read more... )

i stay in a city where men confidently occupy that space between hip hop and flagrant homosexuality. i stay in a city in which men and women holding hands wear matching capri pants. in this city mullets are cool and gracias is grathias and smoking is the 4th meal of the day ( Read more... )

today i attempted to find an english "bookshop." im getting into this wandering and attempting to navigate the streets. i pretend i don´t speak spanish when people ask me for money or to sign things. except yesterday i gave 2 euro to a girl who said she was a deaf mute and then nodded an affirmative to a question i asked. i apparently have horrible ( Read more... )

excuse the lack of punctuation. i only recognize the periods and commas on this thing.

im leaving italy today.
i dont feel like writing about anything. im not in that mood.
i was in rome, cinque terre and now milan.

traveling alone is going to be interesting without a book or ipod.

finally i will be able to talk to people.

cate

nights are beginning to feel like fall again here. i spent the entire night with my hands between my knees, head under the covers and one foot curled in the arc of the other. so cold i guess its good i'm leaving ( Read more... )

i hate seattle i especially hate west seattle i hate this weather this distance this lack of girlfriend.
i hate hate hate seattle.
take me back to LA.

I WANNA GO HOME.

so hey everyone.
you remember how in the oregon trail game thered be little updates about the state of the rations and the health of the party? wells heres the update:
lost several quetzales ($) due to hunger and chicken buses.
cate has fallen ill with cholera.
Cate
im not even joking.

kia i called all the coasties yesterday to get your number but it didnt work. please give me it.
Cate

so Anna Minard. your brother just started studying at my school in Guatemala. that is so weird. Virginia some kid named erin just graduated from NW and he knows you. that is also very weird. I´m really annoyed because i have 80 songs on this cd but i cant listen to all of them even though i am supposed to.
Cate
love.

im staying in guatemala until the 8th. i called you kia yesterday and will try again soon to say goodbye.
Cate