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I just dropped Rising off after a good run. She gets her stitches out tonight and her scar is getting much better. Tulum was actually pretty disappointing because there was a storm that came in from Haiti so it was all windy and grey. I did make a good friend though, who came back to Merida with me. We were planning to get a car and take off asap and have spent the past couple of days running all over town and I have decided not to buy one here. There was one I liked but it was sold before I could snatch it. The rest in my price range seem to be crap and the good ones are all too much. So I am about to head to the airport and buy a ticket for tomorrow which I just found out is only like $45! Then in Puebla we can take more time and save a little to buy a better car. Anyway, long story short, I am so tired of being in the Yucatan and I can't wait to go! The food is pretty bad too, there is only one restaurant I can (afford to) eat in and it is impossible to buy good stuff to cook with. This definitely shows in the population, which is very, very large. Anyway, I am looking foward to cooking a lot wherever I go next.

Books books books

Well everything is quite up in the air right now. I have lots of ideas and most of them could very possibly happen but not all at once so I am pretty excited to see what comes next... In the meantime however, I am reading so much and it isa something I have been missing during school and crazy hectic California "can't talk I'm in a hurry" life. I am eating them up and it's better than candy. I just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood which is a pretty intense almost sci fi-ish story about totalitarian religious rule. I read it in 2 days. I could barely keep my eyes open when I was done yesterday. Before that I was trying to read a a book of 2 stories by Yvonne Vera about 1970's Zimbabwe during the guerilla war but they were so horrifically depressing I couldn't finish the second one. I can't really recommend them, although her style of writing is very unique, poetic, and symbolic. Today I started an Elizabeth Peter's mystery, her Amelia Peabody is so cute. Well, tough and independant I should say... So it is just really nice to be able to do this as much as I want, whenever I want. I only have to take a break every once in a while so Memo knows he still exists. My list of read books is on the side of the blog, I would love suggestions of favorite books if anyone might be able to leave me some, although I am sort of a slave to what's left on the book exchange shelf in the hostels right now.