hmm i haven't really felt like blogging at all lately but that doesnt mean that everything isnt really nice and inspiring still. being home was really great but i think i saw everyone who reads this so you already know all about it. highlights: spring in the garden at home, eating alfajors with anna, biking with patrick, seeing grandmom, a night with robin and surprisingly maya and julia and even sam levine. a really nice dinner with dah, margot, mark, and thea. and i saw lawrie and duncan and my parents and caroline in brooklyn. and even bard didn't fulfil any of my nightmares. daffodils were out, people were out having fun, i got to see photo shows and the ccs and even a sneak peek at sara katz's senior show. and andy and sarah and you know. i think it will be ok to go back there. but not for 8 months. some things i've been thinking about and doing lately are these: well to start i have been living in my living room for 2 weeks because i rented out my room. first to a german boy stdying here but while i was in the us he moved in for 5 days but my gay canadian roommate was hitting on him so severely and nonstop that he couldn't handle it and moved out. what's extra funny is that he himself was the same with anne and sara and even called sarah a maneater. its all pretty l'auberge espanol, which i guess you have to have a little of when you're a foreign student. anyway now there's a british rugby player corporate lawyer living in anne's room and anne now lives with a 65 year old woman on the 15th floor near campus and a german shopaholic lives in my room. and only to continue the soap opera of azcuenaga 1064 apartment 8a, the german girl and the british guy wake up in the same bed every morning. but the living room is fine. obviously i'm looking for another place but for now i can handle this. plus i am not paying rent. i've been biking a bunch and got my brakes fixed. i kind of helped cook food with the huerta orgazmika to sell at this place called FLA where there was this big concert/party put on by poesia urbana which was totally great and i gave myself blisters from dancing so much. but i'm excited to go back in the day because they have the largest anarchist archives of latin america or something and you can be a member of their library for only one peso a month. plus i found a whole load of talleres and classes like silkscreening and textile and cooking all over the city at community centers that sound neat. lately i've been thinking i would like to make my own soy milk, making kambucha would be fun too, and a zine or some cookbooks. i've been reading this book called "sidewalk" about people who live/sell things on the sidewalk in greenwich village. i've been listening to rapper's delight club and the evens on repeat for a few months. i realized that my tape recorder is not broken and i'm just a moron and the batteries were bad. i want to learn how to crochet. and maybe an instrument, there are tons of free classes here on instruments. and i saw the science of sleep which made me inspired to use my hands more in the creation of where i live. also something neat at the ccs museum was this map project mapping the geography of incarceration, which you should download and read: archleague.org under exhibitions, "architecture and justice." i've been enjoying seeing a lot of argentine art on my own and for class. its hard to take things in in class but i went back to the museo nacional today on my own and walked through and could recognize all the paintings and what decade they were made in. so i guess i'm taking some things in at least. mostly what i do here is have late morning coffees with sara, bike around and talk and listen to music with sean, fail at making good small talk in spanish, daydream in class but still manage to learn a few things, draw with oil pastels on my balcony, and wish i was more involved in life here but then remember that i have 8 more months so it will happen.
