According to one version of Inca history, when Cusi Yupanqui defeated the invading Chancay people and drove them from Cusco, he started a period of conquest that would soon reach over two thousand miles along the Pacific Coast of South America. He gave himself a new name as leader of the Inca people: Pachakuteq, which is literally “world turner,” but the connotation can be more like “earthquaker” or the more extreme “reality remaker.” <\/p>\n
I’ll get to the point before you wonder why this is called a personal interlude. Two weeks ago Kristin and i broke up. All of a sudden, the future I had envisioned for us was overturned. I’m talking about the next decades. I just assumed that we’d be together for a long time, and it never really occurred to me that that might not happen. (On a sidenote I have to admit that my mom was right, maybe intermingling the house purchase finances might not have been the bestest idea.) Kristin hung on when I was at my lowest, and I literally owe her my life. But more recently we developed different social interests (basically she had them and I didn’t), and while I thought that was fine for us, she didn’t feel the same.<\/p>\n
The field school students were very nice when they found out. They got me some flowers and a l\u00c3\u00bacuma mousse which was great. <\/p>\n
Kristin and I still friends, best friends even, and we already joke around the breakup. I’ll still have a cool house and 3 cats when I get back home in August. But one day when I get my PhD and find a job, I’ll be leaving Columbia and Kristin will stay behind. <\/p>\n
Yeah, I’m scared as hell about that day. My reality just got remade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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