November 6, 2018: Why I'm Losing Faith in Humanity... kind of

I had a few moments today where I really thought to myself, What's wrong with people??

I haven't been sleeping well lately and I'm not sure why. Besides the neighbors always waking me up, I've been waking up throughout the night and stuff. I think I'm gonna try to turn off all technology at least 30 minutes before I go to bed tonight to see if that helps...

I ate breakfast around 11:00am and it was just as exquisite as always. I highly recommend this as a breakfast meal or even as a snack: banana slices, granola (mine contains almonds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, and oat clusters), rolled oats, raisins, and peanut butter drizzled on top. I eat it every day for breakfast!

From 11:30am - 1:00pm, I worked on the second final essay that I have to do and I realized I have no motivation to do it whatsoever. At least all this suffering will be over in 8 days when my classes end.

Cassie and I went for a run at 1:00pm and were both sore and not feeling it. The run was so boring we decided to play A-Z games during it. First we did A-Z foods and then A-Z Spanish names. At least it helped it go by a little faster.

But something happened on this run that BOILED MY BLOOD and honestly threw me off for the next few hours. We stopped halfway at a water fountain and there was a man standing off to the side who stared at us a little too much when we approached the fountain and he gave me weird vibes. Well my spidey senses were accurate because just moments later as I was drinking from the fountain, I had the thought to shift my body position so as not to have my backside facing him and as I shifted positions, I glanced at him and saw that he was taking a photo of us. I stared at him for a moment, as if to say, I saw that, and then turned to Cassie and went off. I was so so so mad at myself for not saying something to him but in the moment I was so caught off guard, and I was also worried about the language barrier and how best to confront him.

He is a sick f-ing man and although I wish I had said something, I should not feel guilty because he shouldn't be doing that in the first place. We continued running and when he passed by us going the opposite direction on his bike, I stared him down and held eye contact the entire time. I could see in his sick pervert eyes that he knew that I knew what he did. I hope he feels gross about his gross self.

(That was losing faith in humanity, Part 1)

This sickening moment shook me up a little bit and was on my mind for some time after the run. I told Clarisa about it when I got home and she said there's some messed up people in the world. Gurl, ya ain't wrong.

But I'm happy - no, overjoyed - to share that this run brought us incredibly good fortune as well. On our cool down walk, Cassie made an excellent freegan find. Four fresh rolls of bread. And I mean fresh. We weren't sure if the person was coming back to the table so we asked two old men sitting next to the abandoned table. The old man responded to me by saying, "Sí, mi hija?" and that means, "Yes, my daughter?" HAHA. The lil grandpas were so cute and they told us to go ahead and take the bread. And so we did.

I showered after my run and ate a quick lunch, then headed to class. The presentation went very very well which I'm happy about and now all that's left is to turn in the final paper!!!

Julie and I fist-bumping after our presentation.

On my walk home from the subte, I saw a man steal an orange from a verdulería (fruit / veggie store). I walked in and told the owner and pointed the man out, but the owner didn't call him out or anything. He did thank me though and I feel sorry that his store was taken advantage of. An orange is like 10 pesos... c'mon man do you really need to steal that?? (That was losing faith in humanity, Part 2)

When I got home, I ate some crackers with jam / dulce de leche and then left to go on a walk with Cassie around 8:00pm. We walked for 45 minutes but sadly did not find any freegan food. The problem is that people haven't started eating dinner by then or they are just starting and we can't access their leftovers yet. It was a bit painful because we knew there would be leftovers but we couldn't have them yet :(

After the walk, Clarisa and I ate dinner and part of that dinner was asparagus. I wouldn't say asparagus is my vegetable of choice but it was pretty good tonight! I'm currently feeling exceptionally unproductive and I keep checking on the midterm election results so I'm not focusing very well either... I think my plan is to TRY to do some homework and then get a good night of sleep to be able to be productive tomorrow!

Peace and swag to all.

Song Recommendation of the Day: "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac

P.S. - I watched the movie "Sierra Burgess Is A Loser" last night and I would recommend it! Cheesy as cheese but still good.