"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."
It’s only been 12 days since I packed up and left Las Vegas. The drive back to Michigan took only two days, and so I had a little time to rest and prepare for my trip to Buenos Aires.
I arrived in Buenos Aires on Tuesday morning with no problemas. The apartment that I have rented for a month was just as promised, and I’m very impressed with the rental company (www.apartmentsba.com). I know that I’m paying a lot more than a local would, but considering the convenience of flexible dates (anything over a min. of 3 nights stay), and that everything I need is already set-up for me-- furnishings, high-speed internet, utilities-- plus a once a week maid service (I’ve never had a maid before, it’s not something that I’m used to yet), it actually seems like a pretty good deal. The apartment is in a great area as well-- I overlook the Recoleta cemetery.
All in all, I feel pretty lucky to have found the apartment, and my cost is no more than what my total monthly bills were in Las Vegas.
Tomorrow, I’m picking up a new computer monitor, and will be able to start working again. The whole computer monitor buying experience hasn’t been very easy. It’s very difficult to find a monitor that fits my needs (a minimum of 1600x1200 resolution), and there isn’t much of a market for large monitors in Argentina. Plus, the language-barrier makes shopping for anything a challenge.
I’m also going to get a Spanish-language tutor tomorrow (Verbum). I think that I might start out with 2 hours of class a day, 5 days a week. I’m not totally without language skills, as I’ve been listening to Pimsleur audio lessons for the last few months, but I want to learn as quickly as possible.
For a first post, I know that this is pretty dull and bland…. but I’m finding it difficult to get started. Hopefully it’ll get easier as I go on. Hey, they can’t all be winners! Come on! It’s an introductory post, and introductions are always boring… most of the time, I don’t even read introductions, because I figure that if I read everything else, I’ll know what the introduction said anyway (sometimes though, this backfires… After reading everything else, I realize that by reading the introduction, I would have saved myself a lot of wasted time)…
This blog-thing might not have been a good idea… though it seemed like a good idea before I actually started typing… an easy way for my friends and family to follow my life… even more importantly--- a way for me to follow my life… but now, I have performance anxiety…
It’s too much pressure. I hate you all.
--- The quote in the title is by June Foray, probably best known for being the voice for the cartoon character Rocky in Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show.
I arrived in Buenos Aires on Tuesday morning with no problemas. The apartment that I have rented for a month was just as promised, and I’m very impressed with the rental company (www.apartmentsba.com). I know that I’m paying a lot more than a local would, but considering the convenience of flexible dates (anything over a min. of 3 nights stay), and that everything I need is already set-up for me-- furnishings, high-speed internet, utilities-- plus a once a week maid service (I’ve never had a maid before, it’s not something that I’m used to yet), it actually seems like a pretty good deal. The apartment is in a great area as well-- I overlook the Recoleta cemetery.
All in all, I feel pretty lucky to have found the apartment, and my cost is no more than what my total monthly bills were in Las Vegas.
Tomorrow, I’m picking up a new computer monitor, and will be able to start working again. The whole computer monitor buying experience hasn’t been very easy. It’s very difficult to find a monitor that fits my needs (a minimum of 1600x1200 resolution), and there isn’t much of a market for large monitors in Argentina. Plus, the language-barrier makes shopping for anything a challenge.
I’m also going to get a Spanish-language tutor tomorrow (Verbum). I think that I might start out with 2 hours of class a day, 5 days a week. I’m not totally without language skills, as I’ve been listening to Pimsleur audio lessons for the last few months, but I want to learn as quickly as possible.
For a first post, I know that this is pretty dull and bland…. but I’m finding it difficult to get started. Hopefully it’ll get easier as I go on. Hey, they can’t all be winners! Come on! It’s an introductory post, and introductions are always boring… most of the time, I don’t even read introductions, because I figure that if I read everything else, I’ll know what the introduction said anyway (sometimes though, this backfires… After reading everything else, I realize that by reading the introduction, I would have saved myself a lot of wasted time)…
This blog-thing might not have been a good idea… though it seemed like a good idea before I actually started typing… an easy way for my friends and family to follow my life… even more importantly--- a way for me to follow my life… but now, I have performance anxiety…
It’s too much pressure. I hate you all.
--- The quote in the title is by June Foray, probably best known for being the voice for the cartoon character Rocky in Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show.
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