While away from home

I missed

• my shower
  
• my hair stuff
• my skin care supplies
• my capris
• my dogs
• my family
• my sister
• my hammock
  

I didn't miss

• work
• my shower's water pressure
• the messiness of my room

Viajes

0. Acapulco
1. Guadalajara
2. Kissimmee, FL con los Navarrete Novelo
3. Dearborn, MI
4. Toronto, ON
5. Niagara Falls, ON
6. St Petersburg, FL
7. Mexico DF
8. Ciudad del Carmen
9. Orlando, FL
10. Nassau, Bahamas
11. Daytona Beach, FL
12. St Augustine, FL
13. Montréal, QC
14. Québec, QC
15. Cape Canaveral, FL
16. Cherokee, NC
17. Veracruz
18. Tlacotalpan
19. Villahermosa
20. Palenque
21. Campeche
22. Phoenix
23. Amsterdam
24. Barcelona
25. Reus
26. Vielha
27. Luchon
28. Andorra la Vella
29. Lisboa
30. Madrid
31. Porto
32. Cascais
33. New York City
34. Washington DC
35. Indianapolis
36. Orange Walk
37. San Ignacio
38. Flores
39. Tikal
40. Rio Dulce
41. Guatemala
42. San Jose
43. La Fortuna
44. Monteverde
45. Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
46. Bocas del Toro
47. Boquete
48. Panama
49. Antigua
50. Chichicastenango
51. Abu Dhabi
52. Dubai
53. Celestun
54. Valladolid
55. Cancun
56. Playa del Carmen
57. Rio Lagartos
58. Chicago

X random facts about yours truly

1. I actually have a list of random facts about myself; I keep it in my journal, which means it's not here.

2. I like to write down things my friends have said and made me laugh, so I can use them on rainy days. The BFL peeps made outstanding contributions to this particular point.

3. One of my biggest pet peeves is being exposed to alphabetically-sorted playlists. I mean, really?

4. If it were possible, I would marry ice cream.

5. I for the most part believe airplanes are a miracle. Not the airplanes themselves, but the idea of what they are and what they do. Yay physics.

6. I wish I knew how to sew, but I've lived in fear of sewing machines all my life, so I don't really know if that will ever happen.

7. I believe you can't believe in geography unless you've seen it.

8. I think I have an awesome family, even if sometimes they drive me crazy.

9. There is always room for ice cream.

10. I love trying different kinds of food and going to restaurants in general.

11. I don't dislike Angelina or Brad, but I'm team Aniston.

13. If they were ever to make a film about my life, it should be a martial art-musical set in exotic Switzerland.

14. I HATEHATEHATE cheapskate tippers, especially if I'm splitting the check with them.

15. I love visiting people and being part of their every day life, even for a little while.

16. I like to think I'm funnier and more interesting than people assume when they first meet me. Note I'm not saying I am, I'm just saying I like to think so, ha!

17. I too suck at keeping in touch with friends, especially when they've been a really important part of my life and for any reason we grow apart. Sometimes I feel like calling or writing to catch up, but feel they'd be all like, um, WTH?

18. I wish I could play chess with actual people more. Whenever I beat my phone, I feel it's letting me win. Seriously, it makes at least one move that is just SO RANDOMLY STUPID that I just know it can't be an accident. People are way too competitive to let stuff like that slip.

19. I am having a cookie right now.

20. I love pasta.

21. I'm apparently very hungry, since like 25% of this list so far has been about food.

22. I have an embarrassment-free playlist that I can play in public... If I just played random songs from my iPod people would think I'm insane.

23. I watch more TV than I believe I do.

24. Because I'm allergic to cats and try to be cautious about it (by not touching them, or washing my hands right after I do, and being VERY careful they don't go anywhere near my stuff) people often assume I don't like them. False. I love cats (and could look at lolcats for days), I just dislike having an itchy face and/or being driven to the hospital in the middle of the night.

25. I'm not particulary excited about my birthday, since so many of you guys won't be around to celebrate it. On a related note if you won't be around for my birthday, you suck.

I think I know more Michael Jackson songs than your average Meximiss. I was SO CRAZY about him in the 90s. I was the local weirdo. I still can't believe he's gone, or how many of the few things I truly regret in my life have to do with him. I ♥ you, MJ.

It's also a little surreal realizing my sister also knows and likes the songs, because I played them so much when we were little. It just seems so unlike her.

At one point in my life when I was really sad an exhausted, I was doing okay til a Corinne Bailey Rae song came up on my iPod (Just like a Star, actually). I remembered reading about her husband having died (at the time, I thought I'd read he'd been murdered, but he apparently died of an overdose) and broke down crying. Every time I hear one of her songs I think about it and get sad again.

All that you can't leave behind

Para viajes de bajo presupuesto.

Linterna
Candados
Ziplocs (con detergente?)
Duct tape
Hilo dental
Costurero
Campanitas?
Mini-toalla
Brújula
Humectante/Chapstick
Ropa de secado rápido
Pinzas para ropa
Facewipes
Transpore

Estándares

Para evaluar una película:

1. Trama

• La trama no necesariamente debe ser creíble.
  
• Los personajes y sus reacciones deben ser creíbles.
• ¿Son consistentes?
• ¿Los personajes se mueven según sus motivaciones y jerarquías de valores?
• Los personajes se mueven de manera realista, y no guiados por cortes para efectos dramáticos.
• Los personajes deben atravesar una catársis que los cambia.
  

2. Premisa

• ¿Cuál fue el mensaje de la película?
  
• ¿Qué aprendieron los personajes?
  

3. Técnica

• La dirección ayuda a narrar la historia, en vez de atraer la atención hacia sí.

4. Objetivo

• ¿Cuál es el objetivo principal de la película?
• ¿Se logró el objetivo?
  

Cosas y gente a la que prometería serles fiel en lo próspero y en lo adverso, en la salud y en la enfermedad, y amarlas y respetarlas...

...hasta que la muerte nos separase:

• Arrested Development
• Mi iPod
• Mi Coche
• U2
• Johnny Depp
• SailorMoon
  

Lugares para visitar en Yucatán

Restaurantes

Aqua
Fiore
La Reina Itzalana
Trotter's
La Tratto
Slavia
El Príncipe Tutul-Xiu
(Enfrente de Loltún)
Cubanissimo
Drive Inn

Cafés y heladerías

Fiore
Terra
Colón
Domo Blanco
Mi viejo molino
Frappé
Tepoznieves

Turismo

Celestún
Chichén Itzá
Dzilam
Kabah
Uxmal
Loltún
Tekax
Valladolid
Ek Balam
Samulá
Dzitnup
Cholul
Cuzamá
Mayapán

Parques

Parque de la Juventud
Centenario

Quintana Roo

Cobá
Aktun Chen
Playa del Carmen
Tulum
Cancun
Holbox
Majahual