San Jose, Costa Rica -- afternoon

I have a few free minutes, plus I want to at least appear productive. Therefore, I'll write a few lines.

These past couple of days, I've felt anything but productive. I wake up just to sit around the house. I feel as if I should have grand plans every day, but instead I don't do anything really worth mentioning.

Besides trying to concentrate during conversations to learn new words and phrases, I've also done a good deal of reading. I brought along a hefty tome in anticipation of the opportunity and the need to do a lot of reading; the book is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It hasn't much grabbed my attention, but its my only steady form of entertainment so I stick with it. As a book over a thousand pages long, I'll remain patient before it picks up and begins to ascend towards its climax.

Rand is a strong proponent of capitalism, so this book will likely serve to reinforce my own socialist beliefs. But it is my belief that everyone should have an open mind to all theories and beliefs in order to reform or revise one's own beliefs or else in order to reinforce or strengthen one's own beliefs.

Well, I've just been served a cup of coffee by my Tia Luisa. I'm sure I'll return to my writing soon enough.