Mexico Medical Student |

I just re-read my last post saying “See y’all on Monday/Tuesday.” It’s Friday night (technically now Saturday) and I’m BARELY getting to posting. Vacations are extremes for me: they are either too laden with “to-dos” and “gotta-see-everythings” that I don’t actually relax, or I relax, as in staring at the wall for hours on end, just reveling in doing nothing. I’m so weird that I can have the dubious distinction of being able to claim both phenomena in the same vacation. Seriously, I think I lost an entire day around Wednesday or so just putt-putting around my parents’ house, confining myself to the upstairs where I (we) fashion almost a studio apartment, complete w/microwave and dorm fridge for cold drinks. I brought my Franken-TiVo (thrice upgraded Series 1 unit from 2000 with more after-market hardware than original) and am loading it up with programming (thanks to parental units’ subscribing to every cable premium/movie channel) to have goodies to watch when I go back to Mexico.

But back to life in general, parents are well, family is well. Claudia’s been consumed with closing the sale of her late sister’s house (as executor, she’s responsible for executing those who disagree with her) which is being managed badly by my realtor aunt, so it’s rock/hard place all the time between yelling at my aunt for lacking such obvious managerial skills vs. not impeding a sale that all want to happen. This means that we haven’t really done much together now that I don’t have school, which is a shame. Hopefully things will calm down this weekend until the trip back.

There is quite a few more things to say, but I’m going to say them in separate posts because they deserve their own space to ferment grow. To all my readers (notice, I used the plural form), I apologize if I haven’t commented on your blogs or stopped in lately. You see, I am rather retarded without my trusty newsreader, NetNewsWire. I have tried FeedBurner and RSSOwl on the PC (my laptop (tablet) that travel with) to substitute when I’m away, but it just doesn’t cut it. If any of you have any good suggestions or wouldn’t mind sharing your thoughts on what works for you regarding RSS/ATOM readers for Windows, I’d shore ‘preciate it. *tips hat*

On to the other posts, now that you know I’m alive!