Kristin, word on the street is it's already taken care of.

Emily, I sent you a sad and crampy email.

Signed, my uterus hurts AND I'm starving.

Well, I'm back from Guatemala. It's the best place ever, and anybody that wants to learn some Spanish should consider going to Antigua for a couple of weeks or longer. The school I used was awesome and will give you 4 hours per day of one-on-one tutoring for $135 a WEEK, and, if you're willing to live with a native family, room and board for an additional $85 a WEEK. OR, perfectly nice hotels can be found for $15 a night or less and food is $10 a day or less, so... cheapest educational vacation EVER.

ETA: Sorry for the asscap abuse, I just had an awesome time and want to go back. For a month. Right now.

By the way, anybody speak pretty good spanish and want to penpal with me? I'm planning on watching Buffy all the way through with Spanish subtitles, but I'm not sure that's really good practice, so much.

Oh, I didn't know you were in Guatemala. We could have hooked you up with SA.

I emailed SA before I left. Completely different areas of the country. As it took me 2.5 hours to get driven less than 50 km on Guatemalan roads, a meeting didn't really seem conceivable, unfortunately.

Gris, I speak decent Spanish and I need to practice in preparation for Puerto Rico.

Sweet! You should send me a rambly email that uses all sorts of things I haven't learned yet so I need to research it to understand! Since I basically only know present, preterite, and simple future tenses at this point, that shouldn't be too difficult.

I have the Oxford spanish/english/español dictionary on my palm (which is worth the $30 so much it HURTS if you carry a palm around, though a memory card is a necessity - over 300,000 entries, many with dozens of examples) so vocabulary, at least, is easy for me to parse, generally.

When are you going to Puerto Rico? And why? (Don't answer here, unless others are curious - put it in the email! Yes, i'm easily excitable.)

Emily, thank you!

Okay, back to work. Grumble.

Gah.

My best free hosting 1gb web account (Spymac) can't be accessed any more due to them wanting verification via cell phone ("free") or a $1 paypal charge.

All they want is to send a code to the cell phone so that they can be certain a person is getting it, I guess.

Andi has the same issue.

The problem is neither of us has a cell phone. And I'd prefer not to pull only a single dollar from my bank account just for this.

sigh.

I wonder if I can have it sent to someone else's phone?

Jilli!!! I was perusing Torrid's website, and I had to check and see if you were aware of these shoes: [link]

Oooh! No, I wasn't aware of them. Curse this lack of gainful employment!

(Sorry I haven't been around much, gang. I miss everyone, but I figure I should take advantage of my unemployment and Get Stuff Done, which means less computer time.)