New Logo

Here it is! my New logo!

Tablets are for Girls...and me.

So I've been using my friends tablet for the last couple of days because my hand has been hurting from all the mousing that I've been up to! They help alot! There's one catch; They cost $400! Anyone want to buy one for me? :D

Miss Alison

I'm about to post this to NotCot.orgs website. I hope Alison doesn't mind!

If you haven't seen Notcot.org, then I highly reccomend, no I demand! that you check it out.

Samba School

S.Paulo 215, originally uploaded by .happiness.

Bateria da Perola Negra public practice session for Carnival...Crazy...

I don't know if I can exactly explain how crazy it actually is to be in this crowd right now.

Market shopping

S.Paulo 001, originally uploaded by .happiness.

I don't see too many obese people in Brasil, I wonder if it has anything to do with the way people get their food and where?

S.Paulo 007

S.Paulo 007, originally uploaded by .happiness.

Street Art!

The weekend. Epic.

I haven't had a moments rest since Friday, and I'm back at my desk again working on applications for graduate school but before that happens, let me fill you in on some things I did.

I go my hair cut!
We went to dinner and ate Comida Arabe (middle eastern food)

We went dancing! It was totally great.

Apo Fousek

Cool art in Sao Paulo

http://www.apofousek.com/apotemp.swf

My first full day in the streets

Ok, so yesterday I woke at 7am and decided that it would be a /idea
premiere/ to wander the city with no real destination. I was careful to
ask where I should NOT go but other than that I just wanted to take a
look around. I spent the day walking in my /Haviannas/ (flip flops) and
now my feet are quite sore. I'm learning a TON of Portuguese which of
course is my goal for the trip.

I walked from the apartment in Pinheiros to Parque do Ibirapuera then
decided that I wanted to get sorted on my bus card and mobile phone or
/aparelho. /So I headed to the metro station on Avenida da Paulista or
simply Paulista (which is also the name for someone that lives here in
Ciudade do Sao Paulo) I am now VERY sun burnt, which is odd because I usually don't have a problem with that. At any rate you can see a map of the area by following the link.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115231437745424012370.0004448c3941d3da9a886&ll=-23.570674,-46.674042&spn=0.03666,0.057678&z=14&om=0">here

Anyway I'm late for another awesome day! It's a holiday today so it will
be quite fun I'm sure!

Crafty

A beautiful example of Paulista street craft. I have no idea what was
going on, because my Portuguese is pretty poor still but I am learning
quickly! Last night I had a wonderful treat of called a Chica Bon which
is a delicious ice pop derivative made of chocolate and malt. Delicious
treats indeed. Obviously, I still need a haircut.

A night of good funk

I wish I had taken my camera to the club that we went to last night!
Smiling people and a bunch of good funk, disco, and generally very good
music. We had so much fun, next time the camera will come with me.

Ciudade San Pablo

I never really thought it would be like this. The city is gorgeous! The
colors are so very different and every time I turn around I see another
beautiful person smiling at me. There's poverty, but I don't think
there's the hopelessness and desperation (naivete i'm sure) that I
associate with poverty in Chicago.

ORD/MIA/GRU

So here we go! I'm finally off to Sao Pualo for 5.5 weeks in the sun. I'm sitting in Miami at the moment next to these people that must be MBA students, they keep talking about global energy futures and all that...very interesting and disturbing at the same time. They have courses in "conflict management".

Everything is mellow right now...I'm set to get on a plane in 30 minutes. If you get to Miami anytime, try the key lime pie, totally delicious, key limes, yummy.

Sorry no pic this time, I left my beloved blackberry at home to rest for a bit.

Food

Continuing my fetish for ramen and ramyun I am trying out some 'chajang myun' ramyun. Which is a poor substitute for a very delicious jajang myun. It tastes good to me!
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'Premium'

Has anyone noticed lately that .
McDonalds corporation has been using the word 'Premium' an awful lot? So I looked it up because I couldn't believe it.

Dictionary.com tells us that a 'premium' is:

10.of exceptional quality or greater value than others of its kind; superior: a wine made of premium grapes. 11.of higher price or cost. 12.of or pertaining to premiums: to work in premium sales.

I don't think so.
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I "typed" this with my thumbs.

Thug life

Had to out run some thug who thought maybe he could catch up to my Claudette tonight. I'm happy to say she did just fine. Thanks dear.
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I "typed" this with my thumbs.