Malaria medicine and snow readjustment

Miercoles 28 de enero 2004

Wednesday! That means the malaria medicine. Yes, I am still taking it. Why? I'm not sure. I know I wasn't really bitten. It's not really even rainy season and to top it off all of my Guatemalan friends who have disappeared into the abyss of uncommunicative or perhaps exams Mrs. Choco? Arco? Donde estan? Anyway they all say there are not even malaria producing mosquitos in Guatemala. Just Dengue. Very reassuring isn't it. Anyway. I suppose just in case I might as well. It's not like the Central American Malaria medicine is hallucinogenic or dangerous. It is tame. So it has been snowing a lot here in DC. They are back on the terror scheme of scaring you to buy more products in case you are snowed into your house. They never talk about the power going off however. I mean you're stuck with a LOT of food and NO POWER. Very wise. I must giggle. I do like the snow somewhat. I mean tropical is more my style but there is something very peaceful about the snow. Reassuring. People are at home, warm. I guess it makes me calmer because there are less people on the streets. I've realized that the buses actually come more on time when they are on "emergency route", meaning no parked cars on street.

I found myself in my yoga class last week thinking I was hearing the same hummm that permeates the air just before the airplane hits the ground. It was a great warm feeling. I suppose not for all of you, but as I grew up partially in a small airplane for the amount that I traveled...I found myself a couple days ago craving it. However it's not just like a vodka you know. You can't go out searching any airplane. Some of them could just kill you. I mean airplanes within Central Asia or other domestic flights in certain regions are just held together by duct tape. You never know when those airplanes are going to just leave things dropping into the countryside. So I may have to calm my addiction while I am in developing countries.

This morning as I was awaking to the nuclear bomb exploding in my computer (allow me to explain in 2 sentences) I had the most amazing dream. I was lying warm and peaceful on my stomach and then awoke to the most beautiful color of blue with sand and waves upon a welcoming lively beach. I won't mention the other part of the dream but I was very happy. Strange considering how stressed I was trying to go to sleep last night but still. So my computer is like a nuclear bomb. My boyfriend unplugged it without realizing the computer was unplugged to plug in the scanner to help me with something and the battery on my computer is essentially destroyed. So, it has gone into spontaneous hibernate corrupting the system on various occasions and every time before it makes that horrible truck backing up sound or the countdown to implosion. So of course, Stephanie, who has indeed slept through fire alarms, did wake up for this sound because, it was the nuclear countdown sound...... I did manage to plug it in however without causing a meltdown....

So I go downstairs to make espresso to properly wake me up after the computer shock, to be greeted by one of the cats outside on the porch. As I make breakfast the look on this cats face has become increasingly irate. You could almost hear its thoughts come through the door. "how dare she, sit inside warm making food. Where's my food? Does she think it is warm out here? Meow, meow..." I mean how did that cat manage to get such an evil look on its face? Has he been practicing? His head slowly tilted to the side and ear raised up a bit... So I resorted to going outside in the 20F or -9 C weather in short sleeves to give the cat some food....