well, it finally hit me. the bad stomach. a small bottle of pepto and a lot of water seems to be helping, but i haven't been at my best. i started the day out okay with some amazing chilaquiles verdes and real coffee...it was pretty fantastic. today the group went on a trip to another colonial city, queretaro, but i decided to stay home...not because of the stomach thing (that didn't rear its head until the afternoon), but becaues i had so much homework to do for school. it was intentse, too. a total redesign of a concept, and then a total reworking of the original idea. i'm telling you that grad school for design is so much more than just refining skills...it is really analyzing every aspect of what you do and who you are and what you believe. powerful stuff. and hard to do in the middle of a trip in mexico where you have no supplies or privacy and where the internet works about half of the time. but you learn to improvise. something that designers and mexicans (and i'd guess mexican designers) do very well. i do admit to enjoying having some private alone time. there hasn't been much of that on the trip.
anyway, besides that, i went to dinner with ryan, therese, a mother of a friend of their's and her friend. i felt a little ill, so it wasn't as great as it could have been, but we did have a good time, and i found out that kenneth anger was at the film festival, and camilla (the mother's friend), got to meet him. pretty rad! it was a lovely dinner, and i got the chance to walk around a lot that evening, exploring the square. all of the younger folks went out dancing and drinking until 5am...i can't hang with that, especially when i'm not feeling super great. so i stayed in and got some much-needed sleep. not a particularly exciting day, but a productive one.
