Evan Martin ([info]evan) wrote,
@ 2008-03-23 21:20:00
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home again
When I got back from my half year in Japan (1.5 years ago, now) I drafted a monster LiveJournal post detailing everything I thought about there and here. I kept revising it, trying to distill it into core points: like, how different is it, really? and would I consider living there for the rest of my life?

I never quite figured it out, and that post is now lost to wherever my files go when I'm not looking. I expect maybe that's also where my thoughts on Buenos Aires will also go.

In any case, I'm home again after a week's vacation, ready to resume my relatively monotonous and moderate programmer's life.

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[info]midendian
2008-03-24 05:00 am UTC (link)
Did you like Buenos Aires? y/n

Did you go anywhere outside Buenos Aires province?

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[info]evan
2008-03-25 04:49 am UTC (link)
y, n

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[info]eqe
2008-03-24 05:16 am UTC (link)
would you like me to bring back your Frommer's, or would you like to donate it to the K&B visitor's bookshelf?

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[info]evan
2008-03-24 02:48 pm UTC (link)
Keep it.

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welcome back!
[info]perligata
2008-03-24 05:25 am UTC (link)
Do you have to do a meat detox now?

(p.s., I was totally in the Mission today! Of my own volition!! All of the hipsters were riding big wheels elsewhere.)

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[info]cruft
2008-03-24 05:34 am UTC (link)
I just poked through your LJ archives for maybe three whole minutes trying to find that post, and then I decided this post probably meant it isn't there to be found. :(

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[info]evan
2008-03-24 02:48 pm UTC (link)
That's right. Sorry I wasn't more clear.

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[info]eightoclock
2008-03-24 05:42 am UTC (link)
I didn't know you were in BA! I loved it. I'd love to read your incomplete thoughts if you ever do put them down.

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[info]drbrain
2008-03-24 05:55 am UTC (link)
After spending a week and a half in Australia, the distillation I came away with "Americans are fat, probably because we eat too much and drive too much."

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[info]evan
2008-03-24 02:49 pm UTC (link)
That's exactly the feeling I got both times I've come back to the US!

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[info]octal
2008-03-24 06:12 am UTC (link)
Where next? Russia?

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[info]evan
2008-03-24 02:49 pm UTC (link)
Not sure. I don't really know anybody in Russia (I've found travel is much more fun when there's a local who can help you out).

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[info]sfllaw
2008-03-24 06:47 am UTC (link)
Welcome back!

I've found that a combination of public posts and the very efficacious Google means that I discover many things that I've forgotten about my travels.

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[info]elkay
2008-03-24 12:53 pm UTC (link)
After five years of living in another country and realizing I probably don't plan to go back anytime soon, my basic conclusion is this: The lifestyle I can find in London is better than any I found in 4 major cities in the US.

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[info]trs80 [typekey.com]
2008-03-24 07:52 pm UTC (link)
Are your thoughts anything like Argentina On Two Steaks A Day (http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm)? (stupid OpenID comment mangling that makes using HTML links uglier than bare URIs)

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[info]evan
2008-03-25 04:49 am UTC (link)
I think that post was one of the reasons I thought to go there.

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Buenos Aires: Smoke here is crazy now anyway...
(Anonymous)
2008-04-18 05:53 pm UTC (link)
It's probably good you visited BsAs when you did. Even though you were here during the food strike, now, the whole city is engulfed in a cloud of smoke b/c the farmers decided to burn a whole bunch of fields. Visibility is all of about 100 yards or so, and it's not supposed to clear up until next Tuesday.

Crazy stuff...

http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/buenos-aires-burning-smoke-everywhere.html

So probably good you got home when you did.

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