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Antibiotics, a Tip-Jar Doctor & Free Tequila in CDMX · onefjef

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  What's going on, onefjef?
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  So Chris said that you weren't feeling so hot, man.
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  So I just wanted to say feel better soon, and that you're awesome.
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  My hope is that if you aren't feeling better by the time you get this video,
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  that you feel better super soon, man, so you can get back to the good life.
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  This is CDMX Dispatch numero ocho.
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  Hello again, my friends, my family, my enemies, my neutral parties who I don't
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  really have much of a thought about.
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  All of you, hello.
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  Welcome once again to onefjef, the podcast, home of top choice parasocial
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  content for you and your ears.
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  I've had a month.
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  I think I can very easily say that I've had quite a, um, a
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  difficult month here in Mexico City.
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  And, you know, this is what it's about, the testing of the resilience,
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  the how do you do in the hard times, the et cetera, et cetera.
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  But I'm alive, and I'm starting to accept that part of this experience,
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  this relocating, this restarting my life experience in a new
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  country, is about letting it roll.
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  Letting it roll, not getting caught up.
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  Don't cling to it.
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  Let it go.
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  Like meditation, let the thoughts come and go.
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  Just enjoy the ride.
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  That's, I guess, the thing.
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  I've learned to enjoy the ride.
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  You have to do your best to enjoy the ride.
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  Otherwise, you're going to get sick and throw up everywhere.
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  I'm no longer sick.
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  I was sick for two weeks.
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  As I think I said in the last podcast, eventually I wasn't getting
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  better with the stomach illness, so Patricia took me to a pharmacy
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  where there's a doctor there, and the doctor just kind of lives next door.
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  Doesn't live, but, you know, has a little office next door.
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  And you go in, and they check you out, and you don't even have to pay them.
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  You just-- There's a tip jar.
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  Literally, there's a tip thing there.
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  So you tip them, like, two or three hundred pesos or whatever, and then you go
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  next door, and you get your prescriptions.
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  I guess all I needed was antibiotics because the antibiotics really immediately
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  was… Not immediately, but a few days later, I was finally starting
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  to feel like myself again and not, you know, peeing out of my asshole.
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  Sorry, sorry.
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  Couldn't help it.
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  So God bless modern medicine or, in this case, somewhat older medicine.
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  Antibiotics have been around for a long time, but you get the idea.
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  And I got my first experience with Mexican medical care, at least one
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  part of it, and it was a positive one because I, I feel better.
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  So hooray for that, right?
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  But it was still about five days after that that I was still kind of recovering.
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  But I think, like, yesterday and today is the first days I've actually felt like
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  myself again, which has felt amazing.
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  The first game of the World Cup was yesterday.
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  I'm recording this on Friday, and it was here in Mexico City.
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  I did not go to the game.
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  The tickets were, of course, eight hundred dollars apiece for nosebleed seats, which
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  again, FIFA is a criminal organization, but we don't need to go into that.
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  I watched the beginning of it.
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  I watched, like, the opening ceremony.
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  The school that I'm taking Spanish classes at had a little, I don't know,
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  party or gathering where they showed the opening ceremony, and they were gonna
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  watch the whole game on a projected screen in one of the classrooms.
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  And I hung out there for a while.
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  We had pizza and stuff, and that was fun.
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  But then the, uh, YouTube video, I don't know where they were getting the
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  stream from, but it kept stuttering.
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  Like, every five seconds it would stop and start again, and I'm thinking, "I cannot
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  watch the whole game like this." Nobody else seemed to mind, but I was just, "No,
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  I cannot watch the whole game like this."
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  So I left right after kickoff, and since I left right after kickoff, I'm walking
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  back to my apartment through, like, k- a little bit of Condesa and then into
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  Roma Sur, and it was like a ghost town.
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  I have never seen Mexico City quite like this.
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  There was barely any traffic, and the area my school is in
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  is a very busy intersection.
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  But it was like it was not busy at all.
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  They, they let everybody stay home from work yesterday.
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  I think everybody had to work from home.
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  I don't know if the kids had school.
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  So there's reasons for it, but even, like, the taco stands, which are numerous, um,
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  all the food stands that are numerous in that area, were all kind of dead.
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  And, uh, it was kind of amazing, like, in a weird way, you know?
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  They were all just not doing anything and just listening to the game or watching
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  the game, and everywhere you went, all you heard was just sounds of the game,
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  the broadcast of the game everywhere.
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  And then you knew when there was a goal because I was walking…
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  The first goal, I was walking.
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  I was almost to my apartment, and I knew exactly when the first goal happened
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  because then you suddenly h-heard horns honking and the sound of people cheering
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  from some apartment, whatever it was.
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  It's pretty neat.
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  It's pretty neat.
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  So then I met up with my friend Shauna at a cantina here that we've gone to before.
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  It's about equidistant between our apartments, and we went there once before.
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  And cantinas are, uh, like- Basically old-timey Mexican bars.
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  I guess that's the only way to put it.
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  I think they used to be men only, but they're not anymore obviously.
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  But it's just like an old-timey Mexican bar.
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  It's like a traditional Mexican bar.
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  This one's not as old-timey as others, but it's definitely got a vibe to it.
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  And so we went there, but as I was walking over there, like every single
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  restaurant and bar, y- you can just peek in 'cause they've all got open fronts
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  'cause the weather here is amazing, and they've all got the game on.
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  You can watch the game and, you know.
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  It was fun.
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  The entire city was kinda like unifying.
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  So we went to the Ultramin- Ultramarina Cantina it's called actually, here in, I
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  think it's Roma Sur, but maybe Roma Norte.
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  And they're always wonderful too.
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  The both times we've been there they've been just w- so wonderful,
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  and we're always the only, you know, white people in there.
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  We sat on the patio, watched the game on a little TV.
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  It was a beautiful day, and everybody walking by was in a good
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  mood with wearing the, you know, the, the jerseys and everything.
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  I don't really care that much about sports, but it always makes me happy when
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  a sport thing brings together a giant population of people under one umbrella.
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  Like everybody likes each other, and that's always nice.
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  Not that people get, don't get along and don't like each other here in
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  Mexico City, but you know what I mean.
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  So they won the game, of course, and every time there was a goal, I caught some of it
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  on a, uh, or maybe Shauna did, on a video
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  And then after they won the game, a guy, one of the, you know, the guys
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  who works there comes around and gives free shots of tequila to everybody.
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  And then we were still on the porch, and then it started to rain.
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  And this, uh, torrential rainfall came in, which happens quite a bit
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  here, but it was torrential, you know?
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  And we're under this umbrella on the, on the patio, and it was
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  just kind of beautiful, really.
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  It was really fun.
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  There's people going by cheering, people honking their horns.
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  At one point, there was a guy with a giant Mexican flag in the rain just
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  waving this Mexican flag determinedly.
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  You know, determinedly?
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  I think that's a word.
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  Everybody was in a good mood.
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  I didn't know that I was gonna do anything for the World Cup,
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  but I'm really glad that I did.
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  I'll go watch the next game too Another announcement is that I am
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  moving to a new apartment next month.
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  I'm going back to the US for about two, two and a half weeks in about two
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  weeks to see the family and to enjoy the kickass 250th birthday of America.
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  Bam!
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  Hell yeah, bro.
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  How can I miss the 250th birthday of America?
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  It might be the end.
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  It might be the end, and if it is the end, it's the most perfect ending of all time.
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  You could not write a book or a movie or anything better than the story of
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  America that ends with Donald J. Trump.
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  You could not.
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  Anyway, when I leave for the States, I am going to be moving out of this apartment.
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  I'm leaving a bunch of my stuff over at my friend's house, and then when I come back,
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  I will be moving right into the new place.
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  Why are you moving, you ask?
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  Well, I'm moving because when I was sick for two weeks, I realized that
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  this apartment, which is mostly an Airbnb that has been… They got
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  sick of Airbnb-ing it, and they just decided to rent it long term.
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  When I was sick here for two weeks, I realized, I looked around 'cause
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  there's, I mean, there's so much of his stuff, the guy who owns the apartment.
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  It's all over the apartment.
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  There's his books.
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  There's his stuff on the wall.
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  It's really… I feel like a stranger, like, in this house.
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  I feel like if it was just an Airbnb that I was renting for, like, a month, and I
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  knew I was leaving, that would be fine.
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  But, like, being here for, like, three more months, it's hard enough doing
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  what I'm doing here while also feeling like I'm a stranger, like I'm a guest
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  in this apartment that is supposedly supposed to be mine, you know?
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  And also, there's been a, there was a ton of noise when I was sick for those two
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  weeks, and it drove me a little crazy.
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  And the street is also very noisy.
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  As I've lived here longer, I've realized that I don't need
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  to live on this busy street.
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  It's very, very noisy at night, and I can't really have my windows open.
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  Anyway, many reasons that I wanna leave, and there's also a complicated
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  story about how the guy's not giving me my deposit back, blah, blah, blah.
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  But I don't really wanna go into that because it's not fun.
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  The apartment I'm moving into is, uh, much smaller, but this apartment
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  is, is just too big for me, honestly.
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  It's two bedrooms.
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  One of the bedrooms I'm just using for storage.
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  And then when the, when the, when the cleaning women come, every time
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  they come, I can't find something.
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  Like, it's where did they put this?
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  Where did they put this?
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  Like, they always are rearranging things, and it drives me insane But
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  then they also, like, occasionally fold my underwear in a very nice way, and
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  that actually makes me forgive them.
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  So… And I've tried to fold my underwear in the same way, but I'm unable to.
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  It's like origami, something like that.
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  So granted, I haven't spent a lot of time trying to figure out how
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  they fold the underwear, but I've spent, you know, five to 10 minutes,
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  five to 10 minutes, I'd say.
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  The next place is just a one-bedroom, but it's, like, more modern.
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  It's on the top floor of a five-story building, and it has a, like a patio that
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  you can see the mountains around the city.
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  I can watch the storms roll in.
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  That was kind of the selling point.
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  The patio was a big part of it.
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  Also, it's just a cool… Like, it's, it's not big, but it's a cute little place.
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  The street is also quiet, and there's a garbage room, so I don't have to chase
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  down the dinging bell to take my garbage out, which honestly will be wonderful.
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  So that's what's happening, and in a way it feels kind of like a reset, you know?
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  Like a starting over.
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  You know, I did round one with Mexico City.
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  I'll be leaving, then I'm coming back, and then I start round two, and I've
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  got this next apartment for seven months and I can always extend, so.
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  So yeah, I'm excited.
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  I'm excited for a change of location.
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  You know, I did like this apartment quite a bit at first, but the
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  longer I've been here, the more the, the issues with it have started
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  to kind of become more apparent.
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  And then I just kind of really lucked on this other apartment.
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  I was one of the first people to message on Facebook, and I think that's
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  a big part of the reason I got it.
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  And it's cheaper than this place too, which also helps.
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  So, so that's happening and I'm excited.
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  And there's also a screen on the bedroom window which, if you know, you know
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  because the mosquitoes here are a thing.
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  They're not crazy bad, but if you leave your window open without a screen on
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  it at night you're gonna get a mosquito in there, and that mosquito is going to
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  drive you to the edge of your sanity.
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  It is going to drive you to the very edge of your sanity But if there's a
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  screen, they can't come in, so bing bong.
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  In case you're wondering, there will be new feature length episodes
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  coming soon with interviews from expats and so forth, and Mexicans.
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  Uh, I've got a bunch of them in the can.
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  In the can is lingo for I've already recorded them.
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  And, uh, I just have to double down and start to cut these things
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  down and start releasing them.
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  But believe you me, in the next week or two I'll start to get those out.
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  Um, I've also been working quite a bit.
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  I'm still taking Spanish for six hours a day.
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  I'm not making excuses, I'm just explaining.
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  But next week is my last week for a while of, of all these Spanish
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  classes because it is exhausting.
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  Like, I didn't realize how much energy it takes to just think hard for six hours.
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  I'm not moving, I'm just thinking, and by the end of the six hours I'm exhausted.
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  My brain is just like leaking out of my ears.
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  So I'm gonna do one more week because I really do enjoy some of
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  the people in some of the classes.
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  Some of the teachers are great, and I'm learning a lot, and they're giving me
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  a 10% discount, which is also nice, so.
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  So yeah, one more week of that, and then, then I go to Cleveland the next week, and
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  then, uh, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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  And I think that's all for now.
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  Do you have a meaningful quote to share with us for the end of this episode?
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  Well, uh, I'm gonna try to find one for you.
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  Well, don't take too long 'cause we're waiting.
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  I know.
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  I appreciate you, but just give me one moment, and we will find it.
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  Let's see.
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  Ah, here's a good one.
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  A poem by Rumi, the Sufi poet from whatever century he was in.
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  It was a long time ago.
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  When was he in?
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  13th century Sufi poet.
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  I think Rumi is short for Rumiford.
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  Here's the poem: "Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
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  Don't try to see through the distances.
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  That's not for human beings.
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  Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
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  Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened Don't open the
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  door to the study and begin reading.
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  Take down a musical instrument.
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  Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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  There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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  I'll see you next week.
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  Very good, Jeffrey