Over a year

It's official. It's been over a year since I last resided in the U.S. ¡Cha chan!

I'll fly back to the States in December the day after my b-day. I'm going to try to pull off a Hanukkah birthday this year and drag out celebrations between Argentina and the U.S. (Shh! It's a secret! I'm going to amass a huge amount of presents and I want you, you there, to give me the Red Ultra Mega Mega Man action figure.)

I don't know what it's like in (North) America anymore (...but I live in the era informática and can get tidbits here and there from the New York Times, the Washington Post, YouTube, and all you scurvy dogs).

It sounds like some things over there have changed and others have not. Some things about me have changed too, and others have not. For example, I still like indie, jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop music, big salads, complicated high-fives, The Daily Show, 'Merkin football, the DC Metro, Thanksgiving leftovers, Naan bread, Chipotle burritos....AHHH sorry I'm getting hungry, thinking about the US has that effect sometimes.

Some things that are different about me now: well, I've had some variation of a mullet for about 8 months now, I now can eat a close-to-raw steak without gagging, my cyrcadian rhythms are now completely out of sync with the sun, I know which bus to take to get to any part of the city (or the country), I compulsively say certain phrases I used to find annoying ("qué sé yo", "mira vos," etc. ad infinitum) and I now wear Argentinean underoos. These last three things are fairly recent developments and represent advanced symptoms of acute argentinidad. The one thing left for me to do is attend a clásico or stop seeing the irony in listening to Intoxicados - that will be the moment that I become fully Argentinean.

Anyway, time to stop eating pure dulce de leche with a spoon and go to bed listening to American hip-hop music. (It's my little trick to keep some part of me yanqui).

Recent good reads: España: Decí Alpiste, Diálogo de las Américas, Macanudo, Conejito de Viaje, El Eternauta (the last three are historietas, comic books)

My favorite internet video of the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojWJ6-XmeQ