The mosquito of bad sleep nights

Sometimes I am afraid
That the mosquito that haunts me in my sleep at night is a figment of my imagination
Like titinnitus, or ants crawling on your skin
Something my wild mind creates to haunt me when I cannot rest - when I pull the covers up over my head and leave a hole for my face to breathe- and the mosquito buzzes, buzzes, zips like an evil beast and runs into my neck, sits on my nose to laugh.

Sits upon my nose to laugh at my cheeks!
I cannot kill it! It doesn't die!
BAP!

I turn the lights back on. As I write this it runs into my neck. BLASP! I injure it. I cannot kill it. I throw it by the legs off my bed and onto the wooden floor.

Imperial bows

Imperial bows imperial bows. Big, starched, imperial bows

Overdue

I'm also overdue for California. Let's get creative.

What my future is squeaking to me

I think I might go to the design engineering school at stanford

Or at least get at some way to solve Google[x]level problems around equality

I have totally refreshed focus this week. I'm excited.

Wow  that's exciting. What inspired the change?

Something clicked on my flight home from Frankfurt as I was reading this passage about solving problems like making walls breathe better

I've been searching for the next dream, one that ties Latin America and art and disruptive science all in, my 3 big passions

some things have been osmosis, like both parents in sustainability, or df's wacky green design projects, or google's clean water or this guy I met who invented an engine and it amazingly made sense

Dukies in tulum set me off. Kim as a peer & mentor, you as an example of audacity working/ambition not jading, but polishing. I felt so re-centered w the quality content of the convos I realized I will move back to the US even if I do wild projects elsewhere

I just miss the network and the ability to be on, awake and open.

You showed me some good things- worth impact- reminding me what I am can actively be similar to what I could be. That active momentum, I gotta get everything rolling so I don't miss any chances. This weekend made me believe in things.

There are certain people I've met in my life that have this energy like they're already in the future. Always dangerous, always brilliantly impactful. There's just this massive, looming, wildly balanced intense potential energy all over. And I know what that means.

Shouldn't have kissed me on the dance floor ;)

rotating like a shiny disc over us.

I know this type of magnetism has an amazing potential for impact.
Noticing really different things. Brilliant presence.
Always dangerous, always brilliantly impactful.

You showed me some good things- worth impact- reminding me what I am can actively be similar to what I could be. That active momentum, I gotta get everything rolling so I don't miss any chances. This weekend made me believe in things. Like finding the extraordinary. Took me home in a way.

Shouldn't have kissed me on the dance floor ;)

I know that might sound weird.

A homecoming of sorts you brought me...

If I tell u a secret, I know your type of magnetism has an amazing potential for impact. I've seen it before. Brilliant, always dangerous, spinning like a clay pot being spun, balanced and waiting to be stretched, tumbling out of direction when pushed wrong, or for whim, or like a supernova about to turn into something different.

You showed me some good things- worth impact- reminding me what I am can actively be similar to what I could be. That active momentum, I gotta get everything rolling so I don't miss any chances. This weekend made me believe in things.

Things i can talk about

Texcoco
Ecobici
clausurado risk in neighborhood
traffic patterns
Aztec temple layers
Roads as rivers
Sitios
Mini fridge for tianguis
Better salsa containers
Trash auto sort
Cheaper flower pots for refirma

Urban efficiency design: "ciudad lacustre"

SF
Skating ramp mason
Reuse cable car lines
Like ski lifts handicap

Daily tech life back age ergo
Dvorak keyboard with new joints - slide up & down / pull keys (close fist natural)
Better eye drops from side of eye
Simple expandible desk attachments for cheap not expensive (must hold weight be stabile)
Eink skin for macbook air / parks / IOS / night
Very soft doubles as cover

Entertainment
Cheaper double phone speaker amplifiers focused on increasing bass
Mini over ear speakers much softer and cheap like a sock / cloth with silk layer

Better glass to allow uvs to enter / new type of tinted window?
Squishy glasses frames that look good and aren't silicon
New bio frames compressed cotton I've seen, what else? Expansion pack for monkeyglasses
Program around world

Medicine / friendlier apothecary
Herbal packs for travelers sickness readily available / drinkable form
Kombucha without needing refrigeration
Alternative probiotics
How to get far more sprouted foods in diet
How to get more nut milks available

Reuse bins around town type in what someone can use it for ie clean bag then its displayed like ecobici

Bike
Better city bike locks register your combo then have them around the city. Maintained by ecobici staff
Bike marketing for restaurants
Hotel biking programs where block and city collaborate much more to have routes with tourism board
Health product expo at all torusim sites as part of cultural tourism - affiliate brand with x% of proceeds back, but sanitary regulations for tourists, food ambassadors program to teach cooking at all archeological sites
Tourism and cultural preservation
Language contest - singing folk songs or creating folk songs in native languages. Dozens, a program around metros banking centers and plazas to revive and represent lost local heritage
Artost chooses award whether school built factory cleaned up or other option (town gift ambassador artists)
rural school geek program. Each rural school has an appointed geek (run for geek) and they get to honor free technology of the office and have a geek committee per platform. Must invent two new uses of technology in the community to receive college award. Ideas bubbled up
Great % of tech budget saved for these test projects. Test budget for govt make it more flexible to protect local innovation, speed up iterative cycle
Better sister schools. Strategic super sister schools from poorest communities, be matched by problem type. Textbooks or environmental or others. Be linked via google hangouts to help solve the other communities. Requires great learning .. Understand others' resources, helps kids think critically and get excited to help other community. Kids do care.
Chance to present solutions to mayor. Helps transparency new solutions etc

Make your own khan school projects
Teaching class - rotates students up and down to mimic family sibling relationships but within a classroom. Teaching waves

Rural education project

10 ways to write a love letter in a text message. The idea came out instead only drunk over the phone on the fourth of july

That's wonderful, I'd love to meet her! Send me a pic.  what a dream summer activity .. Yay sisters on the west coast!

Dreamt last night I was back in SF...

Going really fast on my ride home, gaining speed dodging muddy traffic - was thinking about you kiting. If only I

I was thinking about you kiting as I dodged through traffic in the rain the other day. Made me wish if I could just jump and do an xgames 360° over the taxis. That would make my truckdodgin Lara croft alter ego complete

...I want to attach a kite to my bike so if I build up the right speed I can do 360s over the trucks during muddy traffic! Maybe u can teach me?

And if you had a bike kite too, we could coordinate booyah air moves as we leapt over the evil suburbans. I'll work on that so when you come visit I'll have some mad moves. ;)
That would make my truckdodgin Lara croft alter ego complete.

****** I was thinking about you kiting as I dodged through traffic in the rain the other day. Made me wish if I could just jump and do an xgames 360° over the taxis. That would make my truckdodgin Lara croft alter ego complete

And if it floods enough you could just kite board alongside and show me the ropes (get mad air over the suburbans... rail the trucks.. kiss me at the end?!). Urban bikekiteing - a rainy season sport in mexico

Rainy, from bed

Can we invent a new sport, called urban bikekiting? When mexico city floods, we really need a better way to get around traffic.. just think- dodgin trucks, getting splashy, then Boom! 360° over the evil suburbans. Gotta be the best way to commute during rainy season... You gotta come down and show me the ropes ;)

Idea ovary - never released

Platform - in this case it'd be like a type of online art gallery and production space, but first I need to see the physical studio to make decisions on what type of tool would be most interesting to build (commerce?social?content discovery?curation? A store?)

A bio that has never been released

Bio 2:
Hola, soy Alice. Me llamo Alicia; me llaman Guëra, Licha, y detrás de puertas cerradas, la gringa. Vengo de California; soy de Virginia; me siento Argentina pero soy 100% American. Para mi, esto quiere decir que tengo un hambre insatiable para saborear la diversidad exquisita del mundo: osea, buscar la romance y la libertad de acercarme a las expresiones secretos del mundo. Say whaat? Imagino historia y corazón en mi ciudad, DF. Las lecciones delicadas del desarrollo y la nostalgia y sexo de la que no pertenece. Creo en signos, creo novelas en el camino al trabajo, y creo en df.

Recovery for a terrible day in which i felt deep ennui

So... it doesn't matter if I'm doing something wrong, as long as I pay attention and stay awake enough to make tweaks every day.

Stability can come from anywhere. Your family. Maybe today, my family was the gentleman who (out of nowhere) knew my name and poured me a free glass of wine at the neighborhood cafe as i did maths and ate huauzontle. Or the way my brand new cleaning lady explained her pride in her work and her insistence on justice, and repeated my phone number slowly and firmly, as if to memorize it. All I had to do today was listen, and the gente showed a lot of heart. When you are patient enough to see how much some people care, all else can settle in and rest. Lots of people have dreams on a thread out there - and every one is worth reinforcing, if we get so lucky to be that awake.