Not sure if this is a good thing or not, but apparently today I’m in a reflective mood.  I seem to be thinking about things a tad deeper than normal lately, not sure if it’s because of any particular pivotal moment or just because I’m too tired to do anything and to awake to sleep.  Well actually I probably could sleep right now, but as I just napped and need to go out in an hour or so, sleeping didn’t seem like a great option.  So ignore any typographical or grammar mistakes as I am in a bit of a daze right now and tend to stutter-write when I’m like this.  Stutter-write would be a term I just coined meaning to write the same word more than once in a row row since my hands are going faster than my mind can handle at the moment.

How does that Top Gun quote go?  You’re writing checks your body can’t cash, or something like that.  I sometimes feel like that quote suits me.  As I’m traveling and in new places constantly, I try to get as much in as possible.  Dinners, gatherings, whatever there seems to always be something going on and I don’t seem to know how to say no.  I don’t want to miss any of these amazing opportunities, but sometimes my body just can’t seem to catch up.  Not to mention that for the past days I have been suffering from the worst bout of allergies that I’ve ever experienced.  I rarely if ever have any allergy type symptoms but man I got hit hard this week.  Teary eyed, runny nosed and sneezing constantly.  I think it has to do with the fact that I’m staying in a beach house that was closed up for a few months and there’s a larger presence of dust and mold than most places normally possess.  So sleeping at night is a commodity that I don’t have much of these days.

Wow, staring at the screen again.  Perhaps I didn’t have as much to say as I thought.  I was told that the best way for a writer to break through writers block is to write down every thought in his head.  Which is what you’re seeing right now.  Well I’m filtering all the ones that might get me arrested or in trouble somewhere, but basically this is all my mind is capable of right now.  Must make you feel a bit smarter than me at the moment.  Hmm, so I suppose I was supposed to get inspiration from something I just typed?  Perhaps I haven’t written enough yet. 

Well going back to what I wrote earlier this morning, I am a bit disappointed in the lack of photos that I’ve taken.  Few contain me and surprising less contains other people.  Seems I only take  landscape photos.  I need to work on this.  But it’s hard for me sometimes.  Like yesterday for example, I was attending a very cool festival in Punta Umbria called Romeria.  It is the celebration of the patron saint of agriculture (I probably should know the name) and it is a village wide celebration.  It’s actually celebrated all over Andalucia, but I happened to be around for the Punta Umbria one. 

I had invited Antonio and Carmen (wow, a little out of sync here.  I haven’t written about my week with Antonio and Carmen yet in Malaga and Prado del Rey.  But oh well, you’ll piece it all together later.  Antonio and I were in Pueblo Inglís together and have become really good friends since) over to Punta Umbria as I have had a beach house all to myself for the past week (double wow.  I haven’t spoken about my time in Sevilla with Carlos and his super generous offer of letting me stay in his beach house indefinitely yet either).  Well regardless, they accepted and came for 3 days.  On the second day of their trip here, we went to this Romeria with an old school friend of Carmen’s and all of their friends.  Amazing time, even more amazing people.  I really felt as if I was a part of the core group of friends as I was included in everything, even though only a handful spoke English.  Shit, there was a point I was going to make here.  (pause)  (longer pause) 

Ah well.  As the longer pause represents almost a full day, I will wrap this up here as I don’t think I can reproduce the same feelings I had yesterday when writing.  So sorry for the incompleteness, but I hold no responsibility for it.