http://cageyness.vox.com/library/posts/tags/latin+america/page/1/ growing up isn't what i thought it would be en Vox Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:02:00 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss latin america http://cageyness.vox.com/library/post/ah-to-be-in-college-again.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(cageyness) http://cageyness.vox.com/library/post/ah-to-be-in-college-again.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://cageyness.vox.com/library/post/ah-to-be-in-college-again.html?_c=feed-rss-full Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:02:00 -0700 <p>Conversation with my sister this evening:</p> <p><span style="color: #144692"><strong>Her:</strong>&#160;&quot;I just finished taking notes on my assigned chapters for that damn Latin American econ class I hate. <span style="color: #000000">[Quoting her professor in exasperation here:] </span><span style="color: #144692">&#39;Just read th</span>e 15 chapters 3 times and you should be fine.&#39; <span style="color: #000000">[Back to herself again.]</span> Excuse me, sir, how do you say &#39;fuck you&#39; in Portuguese? [...] </span><span style="color: #144692">I&#39;m <span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span lang="0" style="font-size: small">venting cause&#160;I just spent hours of my life studying for a test&#160;I probably won&#39;t do all too well on...moral of the story</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span lang="0" style="font-size: small">: sucks to live in Latin America. Sucks a whole lot more if you&#39;re poor...</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 1.25em"><span lang="0" style="font-size: small">oh and wash your hands--diarrhea can kill. L</span><span lang="0" style="font-size: small">essons from latin america [...] </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000"><span style="color: #144692">At least I&#39;m not hung over any more.&quot;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000">It should be noted that she said this at about 11:30 pm. She&#39;d been hungover literally all day since she woke up at noon. And if she didn&#39;t have the exam tomorrow, she&#39;d have been out getting her drink on again instead of talking with me. I assure you.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000"></span>&#160;</p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://cageyness.vox.com/library/post/ah-to-be-in-college-again.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523e1b58e1d00e398f2fe170004?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> college drinking hangover portuguese latin america