Interpret as needed, please

I have breathing room. But how can I really say that...breathing room. Ohhh boy, I hope ambiguity is not off putting. please.

Maybe what I mean is that I have some mental space to calmly sit and reflect via blog. I am sorry that these reflections have come less often than I intend. I have been wrapped up in a world of other people's ideas/opinions. Tomorrow, I wrap up 1.5 months of constant investigation and paper writing to finish my second trimester. However, I have already started my third trimester here, having finished an 8 day intensive International Negotiations course. My head is spinning, in such a good way. I really don't even know where to begin:

The illusion of group identities, the individual speed of life, streets as oppressive to human relationships, Argentina: 4 - Spain: 1, Iguazu Falls, soft power, India - Brazil - South Africa as world democratizors, the catch 22 of cultural analysis, "energy stupid use," Centro para Refugiados y Migrantes Africanos (CRyMAF), Violentology in La Plata....shut up already matt.

I'm assuming some of these write-bytes (made that up) are much less clear to you than others.....my very good friend Robert Kordenbrock would certainly read those write-bytes and say "you narcissist!" (and he would make me laugh)....but I guess the point, other than messaging my current state of intensifying mental entropy (does that make sense anyone?), is to quickly communicate some of what has been on my mind, and some of what I've been involved with and experienced since mid-August. Just flashes. I cannot go in depth on each write-byte....and there are many more but these hit me first. Interpret their meaning as needed, please.

So, then what do I do here? How to choose what I most want to talk about. Or, do I choose what I think you most want to hear about...but is that sacrificing blog integrity in some way...well, no because I write this for you...but with what intention?.....well, to keep you in the loop and create a space for societal/cultural reflection, etc......sounds kind of boring matt. haha. too many ideas right now....and that doesn't imply quality, just quantity. to imply quality would also imply objective standards and hmm, not sure I believe in those. (interpret as needed, please.....hopefully not as blasphemy....but no pressure)

Everything is moving quickly, I'm already in October. March, April, May, June, July, August, September = 7 months. Ay dios. I am here until the end of June. I am here, now. (right? well, okay right now my head is swimming in the sea of american cultural reference.....and once I'm down I'll read a book that takes me somewhere else....how here have I been?)

How here have I been?

Everytime I skype I'm with you. Most times I read I'm taken back and forward, sometimes into the intended 'universal.' Hmm.

So, what am I trying to say? I have not really been in Buenos Aires. I have been in my head via the heads of others via the via the via the via the. What a quilombo. How and why do we interpret the world? there is no normal.

My mind is in flux. As Chris would remind me, I am trying to see with a 'beginners mind.' I hope to become more beginner ever day.

Don't worry, I don't really expect any comments. Knowledge, relationships, nothing is constructed in a linear way, so that may explain this blog a little bit.

Brazil had presidential elections today.

If someone wears glasses we think differently about them.

I'm optimistic.

Interpret as...okay, you get it. (a contradiction!)