Agustin provides an update on the things going on with his grad school and family. He made me wonder if moon bounces (aka brincolín) are as ubiquitous as piñatas at Mexican kids’ birthday parties.
Big Brown Girl (more frequently known as Ms. Baeza these days) tells us that the students she works with are growing on her, and vice versa. However, I agree that she should stay away from the chick flick genre.
CAD recommends watching Three Burials, about an undocumented immigrant who was accidently shot by a border patrolman. She also introduced Lola, her spiffy new camera.
La Cracked Chancla updates us on some of the things a proprietor of a small business goes through and tutors a 10-year old girl who needs some affirmation that she can read.
El Daily Texican recounts a law school joke I just don’t get and touches on the Texas redistricting Supreme Court case.
El Más Chingón quotes Ozomatli. Ya se fue.
Jeff (aka Skeptic) made me feel like a wuss for complaining about getting stuck in the rain on Monday when he’s still getting snow in NYC.
Jenn hopped on the Johari window bandwagon, discussed all the things that went wrong at her sister’s wedding and added one more way she finds to be a Chicana role model on Ash Wednesday.
Joel might be telling us “tales of mediocrity,” but I (as just one person representing about a thousand readers of his blog), I can attest to the fact that his tales are freaking hilarious. This week he reviewed one of his favorite romantic comedies, Doc Hollywood, was propositioned at work and grossed out his readers. Fun times.
Julio contemplates if citizenship matters to Chicanos. It’s an interesting question, but it’s the kind that can potentially divide.
Julissa comes back from a leave of absence. Hopefully it won’t take her another month to update again.
Kjerringa Mot Strommen excellently retells some stories about her mother in-law, Ángela, a fierce Panameña.
MsABCMom is off track and gets to take a break from teaching. She also got a cute Hermione Granger outfit for her daughter, Sabi, as part of her school’s Read Across America Week. Finally, her own brother told her she had to go to cultural sensitivity training because she tried to wipe off a co-worker’s ashes on Ash Wednesday. Doh!
Nebur wrote about seeing a free Rolling Stones show in Rio de Janeiro. It might have been free, but it was also way too crowded. His fellow blogger, Lee Stevens, reminds us that baseball is right around the corner. Finally, Nebur goes over the DUI case of Pretty Boy Floyd.
El Pocho Abogado wrote about the guy who plays bagpipes on the street. He doesn’t think the music will induce him to dance on the way to work. He also compares how much his learning expectations in law school have changed (or fallen?) as he’s gone from a 1L to a jaded 3L.
Over at el Oso, el Moreno and el Abogado we saw pictures of all three in NYC. And guess what, Moreno is, in fact, quite moreno. Oso also showed off his ethnographic writing skills and mused about why recent college graduates move to NYC
Tortilla Sandwich tells us why she’s glad the Winter Olympics are over. It’s not just that figure skating makes her violent, but regular programming (e.g. the hilarious show The Office) will be back.
Xoloitzquintle wrote about how we should be nice to any unemployed or underemployed anthropology PhD, because the process of applying and awaiting responses generally sucks.
I LOVE the pic of Ozo!
Ozo’s such a social butterfly … er, monkey … a wuzzle maybe? Anyway, well done Cindylu. You made me add even more rss feeds to the list … just what I needed.
Oh that’s so freakin’ cool!
I have new reads…
you forgot me though! LOL
j/k
I guess I have nothing interesting to talk about on my blog though. *hehe*
Thanks for sharing your friends with us.
whew…thanks for the rundown…I so needed this…I have been such a slacker lately! Hope you are well Cindy…oh and Dodgers suck!
yes, thanks for the shout out and it looks like I’ll be checking out some new blogs this week…. and don’t let Gustavo and his Dodger bashing get you down, he’s just getting all cocky because his Tigers finally have a glimmer of hope this year!
Why do I tend to find myself at the bottom of lists these days?
Ok, maybe it is because my name starts with X. Excuse my self-consciousness that seems excessive these days.
pues que hariamos en Blogotitlan sin Cindylu. Well, we always have brincolines now, kids love them. we get them for about $80 for the day.
Don’t forget machafemme’s fabulous post on brown mamihood on my blog!
LOL “taking a pass” [aka the law school joke] is a bad thing in most courses in law school. it shows that you are unprepared, not serious about the material. some professors prefer that you try to answer as best as possible and fail than to pass, BUT most agree that it is worse to try to bullshit [this is J Kang's biggest peeve]. Several professors warn you that they will not accept bull. One of my professors this semester told us that he does not accept persons taking a pass and once he chooses a person at random at the beginning of class, they are call the whole hour…
what a cute monkey. makes me reconsider my stand on stuffed animals.
Do you think Ozo can find Ms Ozoita to make little Ozoitos? I want one.
LOL…
Oh shoot.. hey cin, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to make anyone feel bad. I do have a friend in CA that always tells me how afraid ya’ll are with a little rain outside. I always tend to think about what you guys would do with the wind gusts and the frozen rain we get back here.
thanks for sharing…
Julissa, word is that Ozo likes boys.
I’m with Gustavo! I desperately needed a recap, and a reminder that I’ve been a blogging slacker and to hop to it! Thank god finals are over
haha! Very very cool! Thanks for all the great links!
Oso – well maybe they can adopt
Kelly,
Did you notice he’s wearing boxers? I guess that’s the advantage of blogging in your underwear.
Oso,
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to give you more things to read.
La Bella,
I know I forgot some people. I was rushing to try and get this done. Sorry
Gustavo,
Okay, that was so uncalled for. This is a no heckling blog (especially for this post!).
Joel,
No problem. See, at least you don’t go around bashing other teams.
Xoloitzquintle,
I’ll try something else beside alpha order next time.
Tin,
I actually had one for my 21st birthday. I never went in it, but it was there to entertain the little kids.
Ktrion,
Wow, her story rocks. Thanks for letting me know.
Fabian,
What do you think about the results of the Kashmiri suit? A Daily Bruin reporter was asking me about it just a little while ago and I had no idea if the ruling would hold up in appeals. I’ll leave that to people like you to think about. Cuidate!
Irasali,
He used to live in Chicago. I think he’ll be going back in May. Long story, sorta.
Julissa,
Contrary to what Oso told you, Ozo is a big fan of the women. He has a novia, Dot. If stereotypes about cheerleaders are true, there may be a little one coming soon…
Jeff,
I’ll take being a wuss in LA over being truly cold in NYC any day.
Tumbleweed,
I still have a couple of weeks before I can wrap up the quarter. Fun times.
cad,
De nada!
Boxers? No, I didn’t notice – no wonder he looked so HOT!
I don’t even get a mention, snif snif…