In a few hours, I'm off to Chile, for a three week trip. I've never stepped foot in all of Latin America before, not even Mexico. It's for work - I'll be participating in a staff exchange with a Chilean NGO named Cuidadano Inteligente. My employer, the Sunlight Foundation, hosted one of their web designers for a few weeks earlier this year, and somehow I've become the other half of the trade. It should be a really fun trip, and since my friend Bert is living there, I'll have someone to show me around a bit. I'm landing right in the middle of a huge Chilean holiday, the Fiestas Patrias, it'll make for an exciting beginning.

I've been working myself really hard the last couple months, and plan on continuing that pace when I get back. It'll be nice to take a few weeks to break up my routines (which are calcifying dangerously) and operate at a slightly slower pace. When I get back, I'm going to move to a different part of DC, just to try to keep the ground shifting under me a bit. Living in Dupont Circle in my own place has been enjoyable, but not very exciting. I could use a bit more chaos, and even a bit of anxiety. I can think of more than a few areas of DC that can [over]deliver on both of those.