What a day. If I don’t post this now, it will never get posted. I’m beat.
First off, a trip to the dentist to get a new piece of metal in my mouth —a titanium wire. It has “shape memory” & is activated by the heat of your mouth. So it will be attempting to return to its original shape & dragging my teeth along with it. Very high tech.
The next four hours I spent getting a criminal history record for my residency application. It’s a little disheartening when you go in, look at the display, see that they’re on #245, & then they give you #714. Right. It took about 40 minutes waiting in line to pay 40 pesos (US$13) for a 24-hour turnaround time & 3 hours plus to get put into the system & fingerprinted. The staff was great though. I wouldn’t be if I had to fingerprint some 300 people a day.
In the time I had to kill, I could have gone home. I should have since I was starving. But I got some ice cream & talked to the doorman of an Art Nouveau building designed by the same architect as the Confitería del Molino. He let me take some photos… & he had no idea that Gianotti was the architect.
More importantly, an international climate change conference began today. Some 189 nations are represented & it’s the second time they’ve held the meeting in Buenos Aires. Of course, Greenpeace has to put on a show. In the middle of Avenida 9 de Julio —right next to the obelisk— they built Noah’s Ark & had a media presentation inside. Pretty slick.
[A little lo-fi nostalgia… original content from Line of Sight, reposted to commemorate 20 years of blogging. Learn more.]