Category Archives: friends

Vancouver weekend

Posted on 2009/09/28 by Jaime Silvela

This weekend, Tom, my old friend from the Bear Stearns days, flew to Vancouver, and I drove to join him. It was my first time to Vancouver, and my first time to Canada too. We had spectacular weather, although it … Continue reading →

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A hike and a wedding

Posted on 2009/05/18 by Jaime Silvela

I’m back in Seattle now, after a great vacation in Utah, Nevada and Virginia. I’m exhausted. The four-day hike across Bryce Canyon was great. When Guillermo gets back from his honeymoon we’ll be pooling our photos together, geo-tagging them, and … Continue reading →

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Old friends, old town

Posted on 2008/12/06 by Jaime Silvela

Thank God for Thanksgiving. There are not enough vacations in American jobs, and not enough national holidays. The stretch from Thanksgiving to Christmas is the one time of the year when (some) jobs take themselves less seriously. I spent the … Continue reading →

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This sporting life

Posted on 2008/11/11 by Jaime Silvela

Last Wednesday, a couple of my colleagues from the office were trying to recruit people to play football (they call it soccer) for their team, as they were short. A few of them had tried to get me interested before, … Continue reading →

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Friends of friends (photos from last weekend)

Posted on 2008/11/02 by Jaime Silvela

Again, work was intense last week and I didn’t have energy to update the blog. I don’t like it when that happens. I don’t feel like writing a proper post about last weekend this weekend, but I did take some … Continue reading →

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Portland weekend

Posted on 2008/09/07 by Jaime Silvela

Phew, I’ve been busy! Sometimes I let my job get in the way of important things. This post is about last weekend, which happened to be Labor Day Weekend (Monday was off). Tom came over on Thursday night, and we … Continue reading →

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Impostor

Posted on 2008/08/03 by Jaime Silvela

I didn’t do, nor will do, much of anything this weekend, so here goes another random post. Now and then I have days in which I feel like an impostor. Everything seems arbitrary, and I don’t want to leave home, … Continue reading →

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Adventures in the rainforest

Posted on 2008/07/29 by Jaime Silvela

Every now and then, things go wrong the right way. This weekend I had organized a hike in the Olympic peninsula, since the hike JP organized two weeks ago went so well. The Olympic peninsula is about a three hour … Continue reading →

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European or gay

Posted on 2008/07/21 by Jaime Silvela

Years ago, when I got the news that I had received the fellowship for graduate school in America, my friend Guillermo (the one from Buenos Aires), who was then my flat-mate, gave me a stern warning: “Jaime, you see how … Continue reading →

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Camping trip

Posted on 2008/07/14 by Jaime Silvela

At last, my first camping trip since I moved to Seattle. In fact, my first camping trip in a long time. My friend JP from work asked if I was interested, and of course, given the great weather we’ve been … Continue reading →

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