July 2005

August 11, Thursday after next, at 12:30 PM I will be boarding a plane in Logan airport: destination: Bogotá! Finding a job and living out of savings proved more difficult than I expected. I have better leads and job opportunities back home, where a Harvard degree is valued and rare, not common and almost useless as in Boston. So, if you wanna say good-bye, give me a call. If you wanna come visit in Bogotá, definitely give me a call or e-mail me. It's a great city and Colombia is a beautiful country despite what the U.S. department of state might say about it and its dangers.

I'm so glad I didn't have to study through the summer!

PhD Comics... so funny!

Hoy fui a la clínica para la última radiación. Nada que reportar, la verdad. Simplemente se acabó ese asunto. Ahora sólo toca esperar a los controles dentro de unos meses a ver si realmente funcionó. Estoy contento de que se haya acabado, en todo caso.

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Today I went in for the last radiation. Very uneventful. It was simply the last and I won't have to go in again... hopefully. I'll just have to wait for the follow ups and see if it all really worked out. I'm happy it's over, though.

My D&D freaks and friends, enjoy this fun find of the rabbi. Here's what I got. The link to take the test is here or below.

A young woman, let's call her Bianca, is moving out of town. She needs to sell some of her things, get rid of them and make some money at the same time. And she does need some money. She posts an ad on craiglist announcing that she has a velvet couch in good condition for sale. Shortly she receives an e-mail from a buyer who signs as Rev., let's call her Rev. Mary. They agree on a price of $120, and the buyer sending a check. When the check arrives, it is for an outrageous amount of $1,800, and is signed by a woman not called Mary.

In a couple hours I'll get on a Fung Wah bus and head toward the city that doesn't sleep. I'll be there short after nightfall, around 9:30. It's the rabbi's birthday tomorrow, so we'll celebrate. I'll be back in Boston on Sunday. I hope the weather people got it right and temperatures are going down this weekend.

Today I went in for radiation number 12.

Last week I started feeling the sore throat, and my voice can testify to that.
Last week I started feeling the swollen throat, and it hurts to swallow.
Last week I started feeling the dry mouth.
Last week I started feeling the thickened saliva.

Tá bien, tá bien, lo voy a hacer:

JUEGO DE MONZÓN
(En fálica circulación gracias a elsurdelsur.blogspot.com)

Instrucciones
1. Tome el libro más cercano
2. Ábralo en la página 23
3. Busque la quinta oración
4. Postéela en su blog junto con estas instrucciones

Ya puse en el blog de grover, la frase de uno de los libros que están a la mano, así que esta es de otro.
En el del rabbi pondré otra...

(no iambic... couldn't manage.)

He recibido todo tipo de comentarios acerca de mis diversos tipos de sentimentalismo de los últimos blogs, el de Rafael, el del Tamal... Supongo que sí son manifestaciones de mi inconsciente, colombiano y hasta cierto punto sentimental, o hasta tal vez formas extrañas de consciencia.

Mientras almuerzo un tamal antioqueño ( sí, yo comiendo tamal, y con gusto), decido escribir un corto blog del día, o de la semana tal vez.

Ayer, viernes, mientras yo salía de mi primera cita en radiología oncológica, donde sólo probaron que todo estuviera listo para la primera irradiación el martes, Rafa se fue. Se fue para Río, de donde vino hace casi un año ya. Se fue definitivamente. Rafa, el hombre capa, Robin Hood, el pirata de DVDs, el amigo, el bacán, como decimos en Bogotá (ver abajo la primera acepción).

I haven't written because... well... let's be honest, I've been lazy. Thursday morning I went for a second PET scan. The first one was in February if you remember, when they staging process. This time I didn't even feel the pain or numbness of keeping my arms up for so long. I was so tired and had been up so late the night before that I slept through the whole thing.

No había escrito nada aquí por... pereza, seamos sinceros. El jueves en la mañana tuve el segundo

PET Scan

de la temporada.

El primero fue en febrero