and now, one for jaime

where in the hell am i, he wants to know.

and so i write to you all, the faithful readers of my blog, with jaime en mente.

since we last spoke, i underwent the following:
- 6 weeks of being the leader/teacher/guide to 8 lovely young folks
- 1 week of enjoying the outdoors on my own terms with a backpacking and kayaking trip
- 2 weeks of semi-depressed meandering/flailing and thinking how i should be working
- 1 week of actually working (a reckless venture into the manly underworld of construction)

...all the while, frightfully adverse to communicating on the computer.
until...gabe made me to it!

anyway, jaime, i got no real excuse for not getting back to you sooner, or commenting on all of your sweet posts to the mars world. i'm just going through my shite up here. but now i am realizing that i've been remiss, and i want to fess up before you demand satisfaction or, dare i say, a retraction.



i've been philosophizing plans for this next phase over the last few weeks...once i finished that all-encompassing job with the kids, i popped back out into regular life and realized "oh shit" now i have to figure out what to do with myself once again. the semi-annual routine i hate so much, but keep making decisions that bring it around yet another time - as i'm about to do yet another time.

so the plan, which has been in there for a while but which i haven't fully committed to yet, although it becomes more and more concrete in me every day - which perhaps is the process of getting clear - is to move out of this comfortable byran pad at the end of november and go to centroamerica para viajar unas dos o tres o quatro meses en guatemala y partes cercas. y despues voy a tener que empezar de nuevo otra vez, pensando en donde vivir, que hacer para trabajo y todo. pero creo que voy a hacer este trabajo con los nin~os aqui en las montan~as el verano que viene tambien. entonces, si sigue viajando hasta alla...todo controlado.

que estas haciendo tu?

hablame. por lo menos nos vemos en la cazera de los "doggers", y ojala que mas temprano.
pero la verdad es que te hecho de menos y quiero hablar contigo.

salud, amor, pesos, y tiempo para gastarlos,
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