i survived the plague

yay, my house is fully functional again. the water works, blackie is not vomiting. valerie is not vomiting. amanda is not vomiting. and i managed not to vomit through this whole endeavor. Although surviving this plague is just one small feat, as i have 5 more months of many plagues to survive. it is quite common here for people to get sick randomly and then be sick for weeks and weeks. i hope that i can survive for longer. or at least if i survive 2 more months without missing work i get two paid holidays. So i have to try and make it or else this last month will have been in vain.

lets see, what else. we didnt do much of anything this weekend. Friday night i went to karaoke with amanda and her coworkers at excel. the most exciting thing there was the tv fell off the wall and shattered. luckily it didnt fall on anyone. then we went to cross keys, where amandas boyfriendy type person is a bartender and we got cheap drinks and hung out there until 2 ish. At that point, i decided it was far beyond my bed time and hopped in a cab, while amanda and Jorge (the bartender) went to a disco. unfortunately, i got home, only to find that i was unable to open the door. so i hopped in cab, again, and went back to the disco. there i proceeded to steal amandas camera, sit there and take lots of pictures of myself making funny faces, and pictures of her and jorge canoodling (or groping) on the dance floor. I then decided at 4:30 to head back home by myself after I realized Amanda would not be accompanying me home. So i took her keys and headed back, flopped into bed, and woke up mid afternoon the next day.

the rest of the weekend was kind of a wash. except that my favorite student, Vianney, (who is sadly not going to be my student next month) came over and had a couple drinks with Amanda and I and then we went on a "postinar" adventure. Amanda had thought the existence of plan B in peru would be nill. but Vianney told her otherwise. so at 11:30 pm we headed to an open pharmacy in search. we found that not only does it definitely exist (and apparently it is embarassing to yell that we need postinar on the main streets in peru, well, embarassing for vianney at least) but it is also very inexpensive. it was 18 soles (about 6 dollars), plus it came with 3 FREE CONDOMS! what an offer! amazing that a drug company actually is trying to limit its sales by giving condoms with the drug!

so that was the weekend. now its raining and all i really want to do is curl up with a mug of hot chocolate but thats kind of hard to find around here. so ill settle for curling up with my kittens. tonight is the season finale of fringe. so that will have to do....