Friday night: stopped by the supposed "alcoholimetro" on the way to Kenia's concert, where Laura, who hadn't even been drinking and only stopped to wait for Pancho, who had been pulled over, was forced by the asshole cop to give $100 or he'd take her car. Needless to say, after arguing for half an hour at the side of the road, we missed Kenia, who was opening, but stayed for the rest of the Norteño night, including getting sucked in by the sombrero vendor. I have now officially reached cliché-dom.

Saturday: off to Oaxtepec with Gerardo and César, with a surprise walk through the town leading to a lively "Day of the Old" party. Crazy costumes (including a guy whose costume was 60% American flag), people of all ages taking to the street and boogying down, pink shaving cream and fireworks flying (I managed to get hit by the former), getting lost and found, then to sleep at Gerardo's family's house in Cuarnevaca, instead of the original camping plan for which I was all psyched up (oh well - it was still a pretty cool house).

Sunday: we went to these crazy cool water falls ("Salto de Anton" or "Cascada de Anton" I think), where the volcanic eruption long, long ago had formed prisms and so the rock walls around the falls are this crazy cool rectangular texture. On our way out, we each bought a ring from a 104-year-old man, very very impressed he could handle the steep climb that got our hearts beating fast. Unfortunately, the rings leave dye on the skin when wet, as I discovered shortly thereafter.

Monday (now): came into the office to finish up some business, instead spent most of the day online job searching and applying for stuff and responding to e-mails from people who responded to my mass e-mail, so I'm going to come back in on Thursday and take care of all the necessary pendientes...

Must get out of here, it's like 9:30 pm, and I have (had?) plans to go hang out with Lenin after I got done here...

On the other hand, maybe I should take advantage of free computer time and try to get this job I just found that I'm totally unqualified for (it's asking for 7 years upper management experience)... Hey, ya never know...