chicky-sandwich (baguette was the title if you believe that one) that gave you a stomach virus: $5.50

realizing that the bathroom floor you are sitting on is new and so is the toilet you are currently hugging: $19.50

an extra day of movies in english and spanish subtitles: $19.50

having a bathroom door that is really a mirror which allows you to see said movies while you rest your cheek on your crossed arms over the receptacle that normally you would never put your head this close to(never mind that you are in a third world country): priceless

i splurged my first night in d.f. and paid for a room i normally would onlyhave scoffed at. i know. 19 bucks aint gonna break anybody back home, but for me, it is shelling out big bucks. needless to say, it paid off nicely.

feeling better. much better. three days of museums and ruins has thoroughly worn me out. lots of stories to tell. not many pics as my cam only has room for 15 and as the display is broken, well, i cannot exactly go back and erase one or two i wished i had not taken. so, this will be more of a verbally descriptive jaunt through the mexican highlands than a visual journal. thousand words, whatever. kiss it.

but not today. today is saturday and i am leaving mexico city, d.f., tonight. in-tact. more or less.

hope you all had a great week. this trip will be a long time in explaining, so bear with me.

cuban b, on the other hand, i do have a word for you. while i was writhing in pain, i thought of guatemala and what i would be doing there. i thought of volcanoes and ancient cities. i thought of the likelihood of me getting a stomach virus down there. blame is such a vague word that i should not throw it around. connections, as you so slyly put it, were made. however, they are rather ridiculous. no matter how convoluted my brain functions are, and believe, me, they are convoluted, i could not make anything stick. just as well. i had a great time in spite of it all and i may now like to come back. any takers on a vacation in d.f.? lots to see that i have not done. think about it.

well, i am off to have a beer. i deserve it at this point. also, i am meeting another prof who is on the way back to school so there is a celebration of sorts.