Where I am and What I´m doing

This post is mostly for people who know me. Maybe you haven´t heard from me since 2006 or something.

After I graduated college in may 06 I moved to Berlin for 6 months, worked at a pizza place and did some phone interviews while I learned German. Back to SF until this August where I had a yuppie-ish econ. transparency/translationing job and partied a lot.

In august I decided to move to Venezuela, and I´m here now. I moved here because I had been interested in the political and economic situation, wrote my thesis on it, and thought it would be fun to live here. I spent a month meeting people, looking for a job and a place to live, only finding a place but then moving out. I then spent a month on the floor in a very poor zone while I started my current job, then I moved to another, very dangerous, zone. Caracas is dangerous and lots of exciting things have happened.

But right now, and for the foreseeable future, I am the politicsl and economic reporter for The Daily Journal, the english-language Venezualan international newspaper. But obviously, all of my interviews, press conferences, press releases, parties, etc. are in spanish, which I speak. Right now I´m mostly covering the constitutional reform, economic hiccups, and the student protest movement and its consequent violence which I have been hit by or otherwise much too close. I´ll elaborate on all those things. But yeah thats where I am and what I´m doing.