Actually, we were just talking the other day in my class on cultural questions in the US and Argentina about how people here, and especially women, are even more obsessed with “la mirada externa” (the way other people see them) than your average westerner. Plastic surgery is heavily prevalent and while health care is free, you can pay for a plan that covers cosmetic improvements. People wear leather jackets in the subway. In summer. And you have not experienced heat until you have experience the mashed up sardine oven that is the Subte at 6pm in January. Interesting cross-cultural tidbits… I wonder in which hemisphere the price of pretty is higher. Probably have more money to spend in the US, and even more to spend it on, but then there are dying argentine beauty queens…

Absolutely loving the direction in which you’re taking the blog… the posts about your relationships with the other women in your class, and how the work you do together relates to it and relates to client relationships as well, is fascinating and I think you’re handling complicated topics that aren’t often talked about very well.