Granos

Ever since I've arrived to Buenos Aires, I've been breaking out in pimples like a nerdy adolescent. I have no idea why this has been happening. My skin hygeine is still excellent. I'm advancing in age, which I think should decrease my risk for pimples. But no. This has not been the case. My T zone has been the breeding ground for a number of angry pimples. When I first started in the intensive care unit two months ago, I had a ferocious pimple on my nose. It hung around for so long I thought it was infected with a superbacteria that I had caught in the ICU. Now I have one on my lip, unfortunately a common landing zone for these pimples.

I've hypothesized two reasons for this outbreak. Uno, the change in the climate. Not sure what the scientific basis for this theory would be, but correlacion=causation??? Also, along the same lines, it could be the food. But the food here is generally less greasy than the food in the US. I have been eating a lot of chocolate — that could be it. Que se yo...