I cannot believe that the big big US election is passing me by.
I cant watch it, because there is no TV to watch. There is no free-to-air station here so even local stations are patched through a subscriber cable network. What happens when that network is down as it has been since the hurricane hit two months ago? You keep in the dark.
Big big journalist like me dont have a clue what going on and limited internet time is mostly spent keeping in touch with family and friends.
Aw bwoy!
Just think that the world is watching the campaign of the first black US presidential campaign and I have a front seat in pitch darkness.
May grace enlighten my darkness.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Skin like leprosy
I figured out why the women here on the Island Behind God's Back plaster on foundation like masons' putty- to cover all the skin problems that I feel are attributed mainly to bad water.
I painstaking wash face and brush teeth with bottled water, but I wash my hair with the water from the tap. I know- quite defeatist. Its hard to wash locks with bottled water though but I may have to begin doing so, or apply dry cleaning methods until I leave the island on visits to Jamaica.
My skin is yucky. My exxema is wild!
I may have to choose between clean hair and clean skin.
What a plight!
I painstaking wash face and brush teeth with bottled water, but I wash my hair with the water from the tap. I know- quite defeatist. Its hard to wash locks with bottled water though but I may have to begin doing so, or apply dry cleaning methods until I leave the island on visits to Jamaica.
My skin is yucky. My exxema is wild!
I may have to choose between clean hair and clean skin.
What a plight!
... And there was light!
MI GET BACK LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which also means running water because I needed electricity for the water to be pumped from the cistern.
Yes- TWO months without light or running water, dont ask.
Still dont have landline, internet or cable. Projections are that they will be restored by March.
I still have to drive up to the computer dept and park outside to get wireless. Yes- at dis time a night! (10:43)
By tomorrow we will be on the same time as Jamaica because we are falling back one hour (DST). DOnt ask me why we needed it in the tropics anyway. It was beginning to be hard to get out of bed in the morning when 7am was still night.
I was just talking to mi likklest brother and I told him that there was no cinema here. His question immediately followed "so what are you doing there?"
I have been contemplating that repeatedly over the last two months. The short ansswer is that I am working hard at receiving my "Get Out of Debt Card." Just know, that as soon as I have obtained a fiscally viable status, the rollin stone moves again.
Which also means running water because I needed electricity for the water to be pumped from the cistern.
Yes- TWO months without light or running water, dont ask.
Still dont have landline, internet or cable. Projections are that they will be restored by March.
I still have to drive up to the computer dept and park outside to get wireless. Yes- at dis time a night! (10:43)
By tomorrow we will be on the same time as Jamaica because we are falling back one hour (DST). DOnt ask me why we needed it in the tropics anyway. It was beginning to be hard to get out of bed in the morning when 7am was still night.
I was just talking to mi likklest brother and I told him that there was no cinema here. His question immediately followed "so what are you doing there?"
I have been contemplating that repeatedly over the last two months. The short ansswer is that I am working hard at receiving my "Get Out of Debt Card." Just know, that as soon as I have obtained a fiscally viable status, the rollin stone moves again.
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