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| car crash
ok! its been awhile so i guess i should update you?
my life has been pretty boring since june until this past thursday where i was in a car crash. a pretty bad one where honest to god, i should have died.
i was on my way to a party with 2 girlfriends at 3am, and while crossing an avenue a car ran the red light and hit us at highspeed from the right making the car flip c ompletely, 360 degrees. none of us was wearing a seatbelt, so its really a miracle we're all alive and walking, able to tell this story.
i dont remember the impact, i just remember my friend screaming at me hysterically because i was covered in blood. i had bit my lip and my nose was bleeding, she didnt know where the blood was coming from,
luckily, i got away with just a beat up face and a broken right index finger.
let this be a lesson please, its not just up to you, you can be as careful as you want, but theres loads of other people on the road who just arent careful.
be safe.
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| missing summer//morning soundsI hate
winter. It's cold, and just unpleasant. It's winter now for me which
sucks. It's been ridiculously humid too so it's the kind of cold that
gets ya to the bones.
All
I can think about is summer. I want it to be summer so badly, so lets
take a trip down memory lane (very short lane) to last summers trip to
the beach with the girlies.
We
went to Pinamar, a small beach town here in Argentina about 4 hours
away from Buenos Aires. We were 7 girls in a tiny apartment for two
weeks. it was great though. We had the best time. We befriended the
boys from across the street, went to the beach everday of course going
to the "hippest" which was far away (hitchhiking our way there).
At night we went to the bars, the club and didn't come home til 8 am most days.
One
night we had invited our guy friends from the neighboring beach town to
come over for dinner and "pre-club"which is basically when you just get
together and dirnk before going out.
Apparently
the neighbors heard all the noise we were making and called the owner
to complain about us saying we had kept them up til 6am. Not true. We
left at 1.30 to go to the club and we explained this to the owner. She
was thisclose to kicking us out! That has to be the funniest memory of
the summer I've got =]
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I woke up this morning and just lay in bed listening.
Listening to the sounds of Buenos Aires.
The hammering from the building across the street. Dogs barking as their dog walker comes to pick them up. Honking from the cars. My mother talking on the phone in Spanish.
This is what I hear in Buenos Aires.
I don't think I ever took the time to listen to the city. in the three years I've been here today was the first time I noticed how different the sounds of Buenos Aires are from the sounds os New York.
I don't often miss New York. I don't CRAVE to be in New York much. I have come to love Buenos Aires, which is good, considering it will be my home for the foreseeable future. Why did I wake up needing New York this morning?
The smell and feeling of these two cities are also completely different. Lets take the extremes: summer and winter of each.
I remember leaving my house in New York at 7.30am. The sun was almost always out in summer, traffic already at full force. The "feeling" I got was strange. Everything was beautiful and even though so much was going on around me it was kind of peaceful. Breathe in the air and its fresh that early in the day. The temperature is perfect, not too hot not too cold.
I don't get that feeling here. Here I go out and so much is going on around me. I have the need to observe because there are specific things going on. The Korean grocery store next door receiving the goods, men cleaning the sidewalks in front of their building, the florist opening up his booth at the corner.
Winter is also different, not just because of the temperature. When it snows in New York everything is calm. You don’t hear anything. 20 cars could drive past you honking and you just don’t hear it.
It doesn’t snow here, doesn’t get cold enough. There is no calm. There is always noise. Always the buzzing of cars. It doesn’t matter what street you live on, tghere will always be the noise of cars. You will feel like you’re street is the one with the most traffic.
 
What are the sounds and feelings of your city?
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| Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. . . . Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, to be gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. As we let our light shine, we consciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
wonderful quote isn't it? I like it.
Who are we to put ourselves down? To put others down?
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| bored
i keep wanting to update but i dont know what to write.
things are pretty calm in this neck of the woods. parents are leaving to the beach house for the weekend (fyi: its starting to be winter here.. we're below the equator.. flipped seasons  ). but oooo weelllllll.
boys boys boys.. im thinking about just ending my little "booty call" relationship with the guy i had a little talk with about changing. im not sure its worth it or if i even WANT it to be more with him. i'm sort of over it, but at the same time im not obviously.
ill talk it over with my shrink in an hour :)
hope all is well.. ill be back with what my shrink thinks later.
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