intuition

I was going to say something about bilingual education, but the book i'm reading about it is in my desk at work. today was presidential debate number one. no comment yet, i kept zoning out.

today i was thinking about one of my argentine friends, who is a musician and lives in chicago. he is the famous other argentine that was at my party of 20 december 2003. that is, i had a party and my then boyfriend (now ex) was there, and through a series of friends of friends and drunkenly explaining in spanish to a friend of a friend how to arrive at my house, this other argentine shows up. if only i had known in september of 2001 that by 2003 there would be two argentine men in my kitchen at the same time!

right, so i was thinking about sending this guy an email, because we've been out of contact for a while. he used to play at this one bar, voodoo, on tuesday nights, but now it's just a once-in-a-while kind of thing. and what do you know (i actually should have expected it, things like this happen all the time) this evening i get an email from him.
Yo todavia sigo pensando en lo que me dijiste una vez acerca de la primer salida con una mujer aca en USA !! te acordas? que era diferente que en Argentina (i am still thinking about what you told me once about the first date with a woman here in USA! do you remember? that it was different than in Argentina).
Ok, probably this is typical arg. behavior (at least in my experience) because i know he has a girlfriend. well, in june they were living together. now, who knows.
but anyway, i am finished with argentines.

and about what i told him that one time... it NEVER involved the words "primera salida". It was only about the difference in the llegada al sexo between the two countries. in the US it's a long process of progressively kinky ways of kidding yourself that it's ok because it isn't ACTUAL sex, until there´s nothing kinky left and you submit to good old regular sex. in Argentina, and i didn't learn this until after i had left, the process is much more honest. oral sex is reserved only for the most intimate of relationships; actual sex comes before. anyway i was probably drunk when i explained this to my friend, but i know that not even asleep would i say that american women usually give (i'm afraid to say oral sex here, what if my mom sees this?) on the first date. i wouldn't at least.

so i am still contemplating how to respond. oh yeah, he also included his phone number at the bottom of the mail (i have girlfriend but i´m giving you my number anyway, for the possiblity of my own biological proliferation). this is the second south american in the course of two days to give me his number - the other is my ecuadorian friend who is doing his PhD in civil engineering at UIUC. note to self: must also stay away from PhD candidates.

ay mi amor, te mando el cuento para que puedas decidir si te gusta el escritor antes de que te comprometas a un libro entero.

i´m kind of lonely and alone right now, te das cuenta?