a good answer

this is my religion:
http://monkeymindonline.blogspot.com/2009/09/unitarian-universalism-on-one-foot.html
Once again the Internets reduce shooting the shit to a matter of easy research, this time less almanac and more personal.
Maybe instead of creatively answering the challenge of expaining my religion I will now just pass out this link, but don't count on it.

hi from now

I feel suspended here, very similarly to my months in Boston before leaving to come here in Febuary.  I know I'm going, but not yet.  It creates a weird lethargy in my efforts to create my life.  I am reluctant to set things up, for so soon I'll have to abandon them, yet I can't live with no plans from day to day.  It feels to me that the solution is to let the leaving recede in imortance, to make space for new plans; but what if then I accidentally never leave? Surely a ridiculous leap, that.  Once I asked my mother if I could live in her house for five months and she immediately replied: "I just don't want you living here when you're thirty!" 

For now is not forever
(a.k.a. I may try to rent a room)

"I don't have a scarcity model about nice people who are willing to make out with me."
-Megan

Comida Sin Cocina: El Supermercado Es Mi Restaurante

1) Pan con manteca, banana, y salsa piquante 
2) Galletas sin sal con manteca, manzana verde, y dulce de leche en polvo
3) Ensalada de tomates, repollo rojo, y cebolla con tomillo y salsa piquante
4) Avena con duranzos en lata, canela, y dulce de leche en polvo
y proxima? ya no se....

Interesting Adventures I've Had Lately

slept in the subway 
slept in the atm 
slept in the park 
slept in a bar 
slept sitting up 
seen that awesome movie 
slept on the floor 
danced all night 
slept at some guy's house
held conversations with Interesting people 
not gotten enough sleep 
listened to alot of people worry at me without feeling consequently ashamed 

What about you Chris?

 
"I'm motherfuckin prince charming and she's cinderella."
-Tim K

Being more like everyone else is not actually a strategy for success.

"What better time to stay than when I'm already there."
-Dad

Some Thoughts On The Monistic Universe

I have just about finished reading another book on my list of non-mysterian explainations of the most amazing things:  The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker.  Our minds are so powerful and flexible not because they are born blank but rather because they come with a rich set of instincts and learning processes built in.

 

Even conciousness, everyone's favorite mystery, lives here in the physical world.  As Daniel Dennett puts it, "The mind is what the brain does."  So it was with great pleasure that I read this from my favorite official religionist:

http://monkeymindonline.blogspot.com/2009/09/brief-rumination-on-question-does-some.html

James Ford I love you almost as much as I love Jesus

"I don't want to be that guy, but I kinda became that guy last night."
-Zehra

artisanal time-killing

here's what Pastor has been up to this month, from my friend Jon:
http://elcrisisnohabla.blogspot.com/2009/09/fiesta-del-poncho.html
at the bottom are some of my thoughts on Argentinian affect

Don't worry about a thing

I have always been obstinate about not taking other people's word for it.  So, I try things.  I have been acutely homesick, but it's hard to say what that really means.  I know that being in Newton would not help anything.  It would be more comfortable in some sense, but maybe no less lonely.  My parents' house doesn't work as home anymore; we've tried.  I tend to sit and take no steps toward what I want while I live there.  My parents have their own lives now and I think I need a new home eventually, maybe already.  I'm pretty sure though, that "parents' house" is the right kind of place, in that, it's a place where someone important to me is.

I found some work at English immersion camps

I think the standards for counselors are lower in Argentina because everyone says I am great.
but I always under-value my own performance.

20:50 I am still couchsurfing.

  max lives at a hostel now, staying up five nights a week.

20:51 couchsurfing sure is awkward sometimes

  but it is never not free

20:53 I have been bouncing around places

20:55 my current host is Edwin and his laptop here has a US keyboard

  it is so nice

 I have not left his apt for 29 hours

 

he works at a call center from 18:00 to 0:00 most days

  he has 3 roomates in this tiny place

  one of them was going to be gone this week, but actually he's not

20:57 couchsurfing is an awful lot like volunteering except they don't expect you to work

 3 of them are brasilian and the other I think is from ecuador

  also, two of them are chicks

  I am leaving tomorrow I think

  my goal: to never leave the apt during my entire stay

20:59 of 2.5 days

  it is the best goal I could think of