july 11

on july 4 alyson and i visited chinatown since chinatown reminds me of new york, which reminds me of america.  the chinatown here its much smaller than the chinatown in new york and also isnt as busy and there arent people selling stolen goods or copies of big-name brands on the streets.  but it smelled like chinatown…

today i went to the san telmo market.  it was really interesting.  so many people selling stuff there had dreads.  i met one guy who is going to make me a customed tshirt for $20 and draw really awesome designs on it.  i bought earrings made of string that glows in the dark.  i bought an argentinian soccer jersey (messi) for my dad.  or in memory of my dad.  i was trying to think of a way to give it to him, but putting it on his grave seems fruitless, so maybe i will just wear it for him when i am sad.  which probably means i will be wearing it a lot.  which probably means i should have bought several jerseys so when one wears out and falls apart i have another one to wear.  also, the jersey wasnt super high quality and i felt really bad because i knew that if i were really buying it for him i woulndt get one thats 48 pesos and off the street, i would get one from a real sports store that costs at least 50 USD but probably 100 USD.  and i also would have checked the size to make sure it would fit him.  but since i knew it wouldnt really get to him and he was all about being frugal and using coupons i thought he would be accepting of the fact that i didnt spend $100 on an XL that no one was ever going to wear.

also at the fair alyson and i saw a sign that said something about “dreads,” perhaps something like “get your hair dreaded” in spanish.  a few weeks ago i saw a beautiful lady with amazing dreads on the subway.  they were very thin and very neat dreads, not typical dreads at all.  and it looked so cool i almost took a picture of her so i could get my hair dreaded just like hers but i didnt have the courage to ask her if i could take her picture or the courage to take her picture without asking.  i regret it.  anyway, so then i had this dream of getting my hair dreaded in neat, thin dreads but then i also really love how soft my hair is.  so i decided i would only do it if i knew i could remove it with lots of conditioner later….long story short when we saw that sign we knew we had to do it.  or sort of do it.  and alyson and i both got one small, thin dread underneath all of our hair, so we have it but its secret and you cant see it so well, but we know its there.  i guess its like a secret tattoo.  except i can not have it anymore if i idecide i dont want it anymore.

on facebook someone posted a clip of the US women’s team in the world cup and abby wambach scored a goal and that made me think of my dad because he liked watching soccer and especially woman’s soccer and he especially liked watching it with me and he thought abby wambach was especially cool.  so i think he would have been pretty excited about her goal.