A few good things that have happened recently:

1. I found a place that has yoga classes that I like, and I’ve gone to them. I’ve missed two that I meant to go to since the first one, but I’m sure I’ll go again, and they have both Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga, hurray.
2. I found a copy of Isabel Allende’s La Casa de los Espíritus, and started reading it. I’ve finished Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal; this is considerably more difficult. (It starts off with a lot of words about mourning, religion, and piety, and damn me if I knew any of them.) I’ll try it without a dictionary eventually, but for now I’m looking up words right and left.
3. I started reading Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, which is apparently his first well-known book; it’s really good thus far. (I read about 150 pages in two days, but then I started the Allende.) I think I can sort of see the ways that his confounding explanations have improved since this one, but as always I like reading the way he writes. Sometimes these books feel so foreign (well, they are indeed written originally in Japanese), and sometimes so very American. It’s cool to feel.
4. I bought delicious dates filled with… well, I’m not quite sure. Some kind of nut.
5. I got my clothes washed, my dress shirts pressed, and everything folded, for $15 pesos.
6. I found cocoa butter (I mean, this was quite a task! I’m not sure if pharmacies didn’t have it, or if I just hadn’t been looking closely enough, but nowhere had any signs of lip balm; of course, I should’ve probably just asked for manteca de cacao, which is what this is called anyway), which is a blessing since my lips had been quite painful.
7. I figured out where the post office is! So as soon as I go somewhere and find more postcards, I can begin sending them. I should probably send my cousins and grandmother ones… I guess I need addresses.
8. I decided to actually start doing things on the afternoons I get back before five — like, going to museums, or exploring places in the city I haven’t been yet. I even made myself a list.
9. The list of films that they’re showing at MALBA this month actually came out. I lied about French New Wave, although an occasional film falls into that category, but they’re showing a few films I want to see: Polanski’s Cul-de-sac this weekend, Teshigahara’s Woman of the Dunes. And then they’re also showing some movies that would be fun to see, especially in Buenos Aires: Yellow Submarine, Rocky Horror Picture Show. I guess I mentioned all of this already.
10. I guess that’s about it. Still, better to buoyed up than weighed down, says I.

I think it’s clear from the way these entries are going why I didn’t want to have this be officially a blog for the CPGC. Besides the fact that those never work out so well, I also am talking only occasionally about my project. Which, honestly, is as it should be.