Procrastination and the History of Cuenca

This is a procrastination post, quite simply. I should be finishing up a paper, writing a lab report, filling out a Spanish assignment, coming up with a lesson plan, writing a quiz, making a rubric, tweaking several paragraphs, and doing all sorts of funky equations for chemistry. (That's all I have left for the semester, by the way.)

But I also finished up a nerve-wracking four minutes of recitation in Spanish today, and have thus been able to listen to something in the car other than Psalm 103 in Spanish for the first time in a week without feeling guilty. (It's a nice feeling.) So I feel that I'm entitled to take a bit of time out of my overpacked and underslept week to tell you that I have a mere 36 days and 14 hours until I hie me to Ecuador. (Hie is a great word, albeit a little outdated. OK, a lot outdated. Still.)


Now, for the history enthusiasts out there who might actually be reading this admittedly unorganized post due to the title, I want to tell you a little bit about the history of the awesome place I'm going to.

According to Wikipedia (considered unreliable by everyone important in academia, but I'm going into finals week and really couldn't care less about that), Cuenca was founded in 1557 on top of a Cañari and Incan capital and named after Cuenca, Spain. Part of this was because Cuenca, Spain was the mastermind-founder's hometown (he was the Viceroy of Peru, and, even if he didn't actually found the place, he took the credit) and also because their geographic locations were so similar. "Cuenca" means a basin created by a confluence of rivers. (These guys were, obviously, super original.)

So, that's the history of the founding of Cuenca, and it has nothing to do with procrastination. These titles can really throw you off.