bacon is the truck driver´s sausage. how have i let that one slip from my memory? i got an email from mafia the other day and he reminded me of this wonderful catch phrase. it made me start thinking of that trip to ihop in san fran so many years ago. those of you cali kids who read this might also remember that interesting evening where the staff scammed me and gave me the fake menu. beware. i still firmly believe that there are several menus stored at the host stand and that each one lists different items that come with breakfast combos. fool me once: shame on you.

no longer so sure about brazil now. i have months and months to figure out what will go down but i hav e been reading some sketchy stories online about people who had visa problems. it seems i could take care of that by signing up for a headhunter agency, but i would rather go the independent route. that may not work after all. also, i will definitely need to learn some portuguese before i go or at the very least take a two week (most likely more) immersion course once i do go. we shall see.

another option i am going to look into is taking classes at unam, the national university of mexico. it is one of the largest in the world, about 300,000 students and 40000 professors, and i could possibly take some latin american literature courses there which could transfer to a doctorate. or, i could try and get my doctorate from unam directly. my mexi friends tell me that i could more than likely get a scholarship and i could probably also teach literature classes in english while i am there. these are the same people who tell me that cow head, cow stomach and intestine and fried pig skin are really really tasty. while it all might be true (ok, cow head is actually good with lots of salsa and seasoning), is it worth the price? the price being eating those things and living in mexico city which has some of the worst polution problems in the world as well as one of the highest crime rates. absolutely anyone i have ever met who has lived there, and this includes mexicans, has been mugged at least once. most more than once. vale la pena? who knows. i am going to start emailing grad programs in the states and ask them if they accept transfer credits from unam and what a phd from a foreign university would look like (i.e. can i get a tenure track position at a usa university with this degree).