ch-ch-ch changes

Hello. It's been awhile since I've updated. For awhile I was feeling embarrassed by my rustiness--I haven't written professionally in ages, and I have pride about my writing: if i don't think it's good, then it's bad. But then I go back and read it later and it doesn't seem bad at all. Since I last wrote I went on a month long road trip across the USA con mi padre (I'm studying Spanglish at the moment). We stopped in the following places for varying lengths of time... I'm sure you can surmise where we stayed longer and where we just stopped for the night:

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oklahoma city
Amarillo, TX
Santa Fe, NM
Albuquerque, NM
Flagstaff, AZ
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Yosemite National Park
Sacremento
San Francisco
Highway 1
Fort Bragg, CA
Portland, OR
Seattle
Spokane, WA
Yellowstone National Park
Salt Lake City
Fort Collins, CO
Denver
Somewhere in Kansas
St. Louis
and back to Nashville

It looks like this (western part only):

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106257293650439657765.00046ecce00e65bde5d5a&ll=37.370157,-92.373047&spn=36.053595,79.013672&t=h&z=4

It seems like Fleetwood Mac's summer tour, but it was my life... it was great... pictures are on Facebook.

Oh, also, I live in Boston now. Well, actually Framingham, MA, but it's close to Boston. It's great to be on a coast and near a decent city again. Life is easier for a thinking person when you're away from the south, the midwest, and some of the other inbetween states. I feel less safe in Wyoming than I do in NYC, for instance. Framingham is a very diverse town, there are a lot of people from Brazil and India, but also from everywhere else. My boss is from South Africa, for instance, and I'd say one in every two people I've met wasn't born in the USA. I work at a local coffee shop called Panache Coffee. They serve organic coffees and are involved with the community. I'm happy to be making money and am already storing away for my next trip. I have a free flight to take with Southwest before October, so I'll either go to Seattle to see Louis, Arian, Elyse, and Nate or go to San Francisco to see this boy I've been talking to for the last four months. I feel like an honorary citizen of Seattle since I'm there so often... I even keep track of their independent newspaper, The Stranger, on facebook.

I was going to rant about republicans and Fox News and lies and the lying liars who tell them, but I think I'll save it. hmm... another update is coming soon.