Terrible. Yes I have been terrible about upkeeping, grooming, managing this paltry site of mine. While in PR I am not too inclined to write entries given my chaotic moods and my imprisonment to endless errands that in my last week devolved into a vortex of mini-nightmares –> hours and hours at doctor’s offices, stolen keys, failed plumbing (almost leading to a total flood of the apartment), continuation of moldfest 2003, a mother’s grave silence… All in the course of 2 days actually and if I wrote about it, my entries would be a string of tepid complaints followed by some more complaints with a dash of whining with an occasionaly rumination about the despair of illness so it was best to have some silence instead.

But I made it out alive, my mother and I thankfully reconciled, and I have been taking it easy, excessively partaking in domesticity here in Chicago charging my internal batteries for a few days before making my foray into “more serious” writing and the outside world.

Roasting coffee with an air popcorn maker, making homemade almond and hazlenut milk and ginger lemonade, wathing movies, ordering raw milk cheese, and generally cleaning and tidying, and taking copious breaks on the couch (though unfortunately never falling asleep). It has been nice not to be beholden to anyone or anything but I have to say, it would get boring after a week or so. Homemade almond milk is exciting and yummy but not that exciting…