the coriolis effect

Friday, a lousy day threatened to end with a blackout, so instead I ended it making apple strudel in las condes (through it required getting on a micro, on a busy street, where the stoplights weren´t working). but general frustration (with photo developing, and a "salon de investigadores" that closes at 5, and a library without foreign newspaper archives) spilled over to Saturday when I totally and completely blew up at my host family. after I wanted to crawl into the ground (or spend the rest of my harvard days in a quad single) but instead went with scott to a celtic festival where Seba´s band played. and an Irish musician, who abandoned his script when he realized most of the crowd spoke english anyway, and the Southern Cross Pipe Band, a Uruguayan bagpipe ensemble. After traditional type things, a Uruguayan rock-type band came out and played with them. It was bizarre and good at the same time. Who would expect to see 30 bagpipes concentrated on one stage in Santiago de Chile?