my cousin Julia has her own language. twin speak….. but for the fact that she has no twin. we don’t really understand her, grammatically speaking, when she talks in sentences. it’s mostly her special gibberish and we know of no dictionary that can translate it. but we understand her anyway. long, melodic chats yield all [...]
Archive for February, 2008
i just know
Posted in on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Italian line-cutters and the RNE fiasco
Posted in , tagged on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was such a hard day. First, I thought everything would be all right at the Bureacratic Hell of Offices belonging to the Federal Police, and it wasn’t. then, I wrote about it on my blog, gave it a meticulously polished fun ironic bent, and sent it off into oblivion because as I clicked the [...]
Protected: why ah love it, ah love it, ah love it!
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it’s in the cloud cover
Posted in on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the NYT blog Wild Side, Olivia Judson (sexy and gray in her profile pic I’ve got to announce!), described how clouds are more than just the puffs of cotton we imagine they are. They hold life, microbes, to be exact, that can travel thousands of miles to lodge themselves in our bodies as flus, [...]
your ID is your life
Posted in , tagged on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to Brazilian Immigration today to get the first in a round of documents I need to have a life here. The RNE, Registro Nacional de Estrangeiros, is the equivalent of a state ID, except they do everything on the national scale. After I have the RNE, I can get a CPF, which is [...]
sights unseen
Posted in , tagged , on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw a man in a speedo shopping for groceries today. I live in Brazil, so you’re probably thinking, “No problem, he probably just popped in for an off-beachfront snack.” Except that I live about 100 miles from the nearest beach, and the market was in the center of town, nowhere near any pools I [...]
japanese eyes
Posted in on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Angela Bismarchi, a Brazilian model who has had almost 50 plastic surgeries and whose husband did them all before being blown away by a couple of bandits who hopped his fence to rob his home (hmm…did she do it?), got surgery this year so she could have asian eyes… the better to represent her samba school’s theme, which commemorated 100 [...]
body snatchers
Posted in on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The funny thing about being the one out of place is that it’s everybody else who feels like they are. When I was 3 and starting to think for the first time, I thought I was the only real person. I couldn’t reach far enough beyond their exterior to understand how they were made from [...]
Heart and Soul
Posted in , tagged on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My friend asked, “What’s it like to be married…now?” She was asking this way because it is different here in Boituva, Brazil. It’s a lot easier to be married in a society that is more inclined toward family structures and less toward individualism. On the personal level, though, it’s still hard to adjust, coming from [...]
Free time
Posted in , tagged , on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Being free to be whatever you like is not as simple as it seems. There’s a lot that goes into being creative with your time that we take for granted. Much of what we don’t value enough about the process of creativity has to do with the influence of the world. The biggest misconception is [...]
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