One Year and Counting

As you probably haven't been noticing, it has been a while since I've written anything here. I have a whole slew of excuses and I even once thought of writing an entire post of excuses for why I haven't written anything for months. Since I still have over a year left here, that is still a likely possibility.

However, I do have one legitimate excuse. Usually I write out what I want to put up here on my computer so I can start it and come back to it and also so I don’t have to pay to write it at the internet café. But, a couple months ago my computer stopped turning on and it doesn’t look like it ever will again. Then when my parents came they brought me an old laptop that they weren’t using but it doesn’t seem to accept my memory drive so all of the stuff I have written on it I can’t get off.

The thing is, I have written all kinds of stuff to put up here on that computer but I have no way of posting it. As I said, my parents came and I wrote up something about their trip that sort of just turned into a list of reasons why I think I was adopted, I wrote a five page diatribe about all of my problems with soccer during the World Cup complete with footnotes and references (honestly, I really did), and my cousin Conor also came to visit me recently and I wrote about that trip as well. Alas, none of it is here. Instead you have to read this, sorry. (SIDENOTE: For all of the problems I have with soccer and soccer fans, the World Cup was awesome. Just thought that needed to be said.)

Anyways, I just wanted to stop in and say that I am still alive and doing well. Actually, I just remembered as I was typing this that yesterday was my one year anniversary in Guatemala which just happened to coincide with me eating my first ever bull testicle. I could elaborate on that but I don’t think I will; let’s just leave it at that. Also, I wanted to post the article that my dad wrote about his trip here for The Oregonian. I posted it on Facebook and all of my friends have been telling me how awesome they thought it was and one girl even wrote, ‘Yo dad is da bomb! Awesome article!’ I’m sure he will be glad to hear that since I’m positive being described as ‘da bomb’ is on my father’s bucket list. So, you can cross that one off, Dad. Next up: bull testicle.


Here's the link:
http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2010/08/guatemala_some_parents_had_the.html