I don't think I need to say anything about how upset I am over the Superbowl. So I won't. Football season is over and it's time to move on to March Madness (about which I am completely clueless this year) and baseball season. Fortunately, the Mets have signed Johan Santana and I am really pumped for some spring baseball.

I'm sick, for the 2nd time in two months. I don't know how. I haven't been sick since the first weekend of training, in July 2006. All of a sudden, I get a bad cold over Christmas (probably something to do with the fact that I partied more than I slept for 2 days straight). Last week I got some pretty bad gastrointestinal fun for a couple days, recovered, then got a cold AND gastrointestinal goodness. I spent the whole weekend lounging around the house reading, so I'm feeling a bit better.

I got the chance last week to test out my windsurfing rig. It's pretty awesome. I'm riding a 105 liter Mistral Freestyle board with a 5.5 sq m Ezzy Wave Special Edition sail, along with a dizzying arrangement of other parts pulled from the back sheds of surf shops. The wishbone, mast extension, mast foot, uphaul line, harness lines, harness, and most of the cords were pulled for free from various cardboards boxes. I bought the sail used (still 2007) from Josh Angulo last month. The board is a bit older, but it's still in perfect working order, except a couple chips by the nose. It's a LOT harder to ride on. I was out with a pretty strong 20 knot wind and I was having a rouch time of it. I spent a lot of time uphauling the sail. Once I adjust to the board though, I think I'm gonna get better really fast. I can already tell how much quicker and responsive the board is. Hopefully this week I'll have time to put in some serious hours on the water, if the wind cooperates, which it should (check out Windguru).

Carnaval was shockingly fun here. Kyle came over from Sal for the weekend and a bit. Unfortunately for me, my case of exploding ass occurred on Tuesday, which is of course the biggest day of Carnaval. I recovered as best I could all day, then popped some Pepto and went to the parties at night. We had a couple friends over for dinner that night too. I learned how to approximate ricotta on the stove, so I made some real lasagna and it came out really really well. There was a party at Cabrer', the big venue in Rabil. It was 1200 escudos to get in, with an open bar and music and snacks. Everyone was in costume, although I couldn't put together much for myself. I'll post some photos on Facebook eventually. Typical things happened: I drank whiskey, danced a bunch, talked to a lot of pretty girls, went home alone anyway. Still, I met a girl I had never seen before and whooo... I won't say anything, because I'll probably curse myself.

I've got a full complement of classes now, including an English class that just started. I am not a fan of teaching English. Even more complicated, this class has a Portuguese guy and two Italian women, so I can't speak Creole when I need to. I have to try for grammatically correct Portuguese. I need the practice I guess, but man is it ever a pain in my ass. Ugh.

The One Laptop Per Child proposal is slowly coming together. More on that if anything earthshaking happens.

I've begun serious job thinking for when I get back. I think it's time to reactivate that resume on Monster.com. Anyone know any good openings in the international development realm?