i might as well add a few more things.

first, i am fairly convinced that water can be addictive. i stopped drinking sodas a few years ago (my first year in mexiland) except for the occasional soda with street tacos (and really, they have nothing else to drink, so you might as well have soda to wash down the cow head). in any event, i have increased my coffee levels (but as i drink instant most of the time i feel like this is really only partially bad) and gone absolutely insane on water.

today, for example, i have drunk almost 3 liters. no shit. bathroom? yes, please.

i am sure that this has a lot to do with my body getting used to the amount of water and then simply feeling dry or parched without it, but when i go to bed at night, i cannot even keep track of the number of times i filled up my water bottle that day.

i also am not sure that i eat less because of all this water i drink. the advertisements told me (and i always listen and believe) that drinking two liters a day would reduce my appetite. that, boys and girls, is a lie. so much for filling up on water.

in other news (for me), i watched a few good movies recently. i'm not there, the bob dylan flick, was quite good. also, i liked the into the wild movie based on the book by jon krakauer. as i reread the book a few months ago, it was good to see a film be somewhat true to its roots. somewhat. that is the fun of conjecture i guess.

timmay, i did indeed see rambo. all i was hoping for really.

if i were to leave this land of plenty (mexico that is), what would i do? paying more than 1.50 for a movie (to own) seems steep. how will i get my pirate fix? bit torrent? is that even legal still? would this mean i have to pay for internet access? i have not done that since...
never really. when i was at tech i just used the passwords of other people (and most of the time i did not even know that, so it was sweet). well, i did use skip's password for a while. or was that brian rob's? curtis's? meh. the point is that i like not having to pay for internet access. maybe i can find an apartment complex and a neighbor with wireless whose signal is powerful enough to reach my apartment. mmmm. free internet. i dont think we should have to pay for that. of course, i have similar feelings about batteries, medicine and film. i digress.

school is almost over down here. this is our last full week of class. next week we have a four day weekend (labor day). the following week ends on wednesday. then final exams start. of course, i did sign up to teach summer school to make extra cash, but i will have a few weeks in between which should be cool for resting. i still have to go to work, but without students, this campus is awesome. my favorite times of the school year are just after students leave and just before they arrive for the new semester. i think i am the prototype.