almost 24

Since I´ve been patiently counting down to June 29/30, time has been flying by. My countdown calander has almost two weeks crossed off on it. The other night I was unable to fall asleep worrying about whether I will make it home or not. I know everything will be fine, but I´m worried.

Tomorrow is my birthday and I have an appointment at 11AM to get a tattoo. Hopefully the artist shows up. He missed an appointment that one of my roommates had with him a few Sundays ago because of a family emergency so hopefully he doesn´t have to leave the country again this weekend. In recent years, I have never really thought much about my birthday until the actual day. I don´t love being the center of attention so I am pretty lax in planning anything. Last year I had a party, which was nice, but this year I´m in Ecuador and I´ll be going out to dinner tonight and then to a bar to see a Queen tribute band perform. I´m sure it´ll be fun, but I don´t even love Queen so we´ll see how it turns out. Surely it´ll be entertaining at least. Tomorrow I plan to get my tattoo and then probably sit around the rest of the day. As I have probably mentioned, Sundays in Loja are incredibly boring and not many businesses are open so almost every Sunday is a lazy Sunday.

I just ate the best chicken empanada ever at Tamal Lojano. Just writing that so that when I look back on this, I don´t forget.

Til next time.