Posted by yz on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 in

In which we pretend this is a connected post when really its not

Here we thinly veil our frustration with blogger,internet services in Uganda, and also cousins who promise internet at home and then decide to get GTV instead

Haven't really been on blogger for the past month and a half. For one thing I am not getting better which is beginning to worry me. Malaria for two weeks, flu for two weeks and my nose still isn't clearing. I'll go see a doctor in August if I still don't feel so hot. Sick all the time basically. And then when I do manage to drag my ailing body to an Internet cafe, blogger refuses to let me sign in, leave comments, or simply read! I’ve been forced to mutter swear words at computers across Kampala.

I’ve also muttered swear words at the person who PROMISED internet at home but then changed her mind and decided to get GTV instead. I mean, we borrow movies (holly and nolly) from the neighbors, we watch MTV Base at 6, Camilla’s a soap isn’t it? and NBS has got Indian movies. We are living the life! Why rock the boat? This argument is not flying for some reason. Something about E! So for now I've found this tiny but SUPER fast cafe now and am (very)^5 pleased so far.

Books!

Just came off my HP7 high now. I think I like this ending to Harry Potter. All loose ends were tied neatly to make this uber fantastic book that I will reread for the rest of my life. Seriously, Deathly Hallows, two thumbs, and two big toes up( really my big toes can do a 90degree thingie)..., I also just finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Its...its...well, its alright. The preface is fantastic though, in fact if the actually story had been like the preface. I'd have loved the book. Maybe if you're the intellectual type you'd like it. Its worth it for the preface. Really.

Here we discuss love and a baby free future for me

So that's where I've been pretty much until exactly 6pm yesterday. So we arrive at today when I'm finally online, finally on blogger(and wordpress) reading like my life depends on it, for what feels like the first time in ages. I'm feeling like everyone has gone and fallen in love on me. This isn’t fair! I mean why do y'all get lovebug bites and all I get is a crummy mosquito one? Ok not really. I'm not, at this time, in any hurry to fall in love. My life is a big mess, with everything all confused and all. Its enough to send any sane man running screaming in the opposite direction. And I want a sane man. So there you go.

Anyway, it’s ok to be single. You avoid procreation better that way. See, I have, as yet, failed to delude myself that what the world needs is another human running around with half my DNA and me as a mother. More importantly, I've watched Discovery Channel. The show, where they give you full front seat access to child birth. Mphmm, that one. So for now, single is good. Single is perfect actually.

In which I appreciate being female

I’m a girl and girls have major perks . See, the guy at this Travel Agency has a crush on my friend so he decreased the price from 300,000/= to 180,000/=. So I’m going to Murchison Falls on Friday! And I’m going on the boat to see the Falls, and I’m staying at Red Chili (not so excited about the communal bathrooms but) , and I do not have to pay a dime for food, neither do I have to pay a dime for transport, and last but not least, I will see wild animals. More importantly I will be seeing tourists of Caucasian descent seeing wild animals. For your information, this is much more interesting. He wouldn’t have done this for his best friends Tom ,Dick, and Harry, I don’t think.