so i was doing a great job at work today being busy and productive (it helped that it was the first friday in 3 weeks that i have come in not hungover) but at 3 everything just kinda went downhill. for the last 2 hours i have been reading random blogs since i already read all of the chile ones this morning 
newspaper articles, gmail chatting with friends and my cubicle buddy and the like.
i didnt participate in the group post about first impressions of chile, although i thought it was a great topic and loved cachando chile´s post about it. i just didnt feel like motivation or something to contribute mine. so i am blogging, although i have nothing intelligent or funny to contribute today. just passing the next 50 minutes until i am free for the weekend. yay! one thing that has changed since i made the switch from teaching english to working a normal full-time schedule i appreciate the weekends a lot more. its nice looking forward to 2 days and 2 nights of doing nothing/having fun with friends and the pololo. i guess i will make this post a list (since that is what i do) about random events from this week.
Monday: woke up motivated and went for a 30 minute run at 7:15 (dont comment on how short it was, im out of shape, i know. trying to do something about it)
Tuesday: woke up motivated and went for a 25 minute run. fell and twisted my ankle after about 2 minutes (concha de su madre, puta la weaaaa mother fuckers build a normal sidewalk g damn it!!) but didnt think it was too bad so hobble ran for a while. went to work, came home for 20 min, went to teach a class at pucv 7-9 met hitomi and victor for drinks at 9:30 all the while realizing my ankle was getting more and more painful
Wednesday: woke up in lots of pain, emailed work to tell them i wasnt coming in, started getting flooded with “you should really go to the doctor”´s about a hundred times over. murphy´s law: in the past year and a half that i have been in chile, i have NEVER had to go to the doctor. and all of that time, although covered under my parents insurance in theory had yet to need to try it. a week ago i am forced to sign up for fonasa (health insurance here) to get my new contract. thinking that i now have this insurance a give in and go to the doctor only to find out that i am not officially in the fonasa system and instead of 4000 pesos it will be 25000 for a consultation. dont f-ing think so. i know i strained it or whatever, not going to pay to have them tell me that.
Thursday: go to work, get asked a hundred or so more times if indeed i took their advice and went to the doctor. i explained what happened and was sent to the university doctor (see free) here on campus. nothing is broken, i will live (in case you were worried). teach a class at wallstreet (yes, really. still trying to explain this to myself as well) watch the Changeling with paula and eating toblerone chocolate yay for pajama parties 
Friday: go to work, do some work, eat lunch with a very nice gringa that works here at the university but in another department than i do, fiddle with things at my desk and then decide to write an uninteresting blog post detailing my week. thrilling im well aware.
ok so that wasnt really a list. but oh well, it occupied a little of my time. and i will be off soon. off to kiss my cute boyfriend and hopefully go to bitacora our favorite pub in valpo for a terremoto. have a great weekend everyone. ok and good luck to my friend nicole, who is participating in the NCAA finals in the steeple chase in about an hour!!
I liked this post. I miss you!!!
Your runs are short? Nooooo way. Mine are like 20 minutes and then I’m huffing and puffing. But, I blame it on the smog. I know this is sort of a tangent, but I love how Santiago gives you the two best excuses 1. the smog, 2. transantiago.
“Yes, I’m late today because the metro was packed to the brim and I couldn’t get in! Why are my eyes red and puffy? No… I wasn’t out late. I’m allergic to the smog. Yes. Allergic. That’s it.”