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Backlog, August 5: Addis dissin' me
Addis is cold. Both in temperature and temperament. The immigration authorities took my passport upon arrival. This, following three days stuck in Gambella because a) my passport was stuck in Nairobi, b) my contact person traveling with my tickets missed his flight, c) the plane was full, etc etc etc., was not exactly the warm, post-Sudan reception ( Read more... ) -
backlog, 3 pm today
A lot of friends have written about their monumentally moving experiences this summer, these Hakuna-Matata, revelatory moments where all the synapses are in sync and the linkages that traverse humanity glow vividly under the sub-Saharan sun. I’ve just been complaining and posting photos, it would seem. Today was somehow the same as any other day ( Read more... ) -
blabberings in the middle of the night
So, I've been watching alot of Ultimate Survival instead of blogging. My life seems pretty pale in the face of Bear's adventures. Things are really just kind of calm and boring here lately, and I guess that is symbolic of the sense of comfort I'm feeling with everything here in Pagak. Of course comfort isn't the right word, and of course I am only ( Read more... ) -
saturation point
It’s crazy to think I’m supposed to leave Pagak one week from today. I say supposed to as I’m really doubting this will happen. It’s been raining every day for the past week. Not a little drizzle to be easily dodged with an umbrella, but a mean, drenching, overwhelming downpour. The sky turns black and dumps the weight of a thousand swimming pools ( Read more... ) -
backlog: deworm this
I’ve been reading around 20 news articles a day on the Bashir indictment. And I’ve been following mass emails from my girl Gabi who has recently returned home to Zimbabwe. And I’m talking with colleagues about their crazy days back in ‘Mogs’ (Mogadishu). But there is nothing like a de-worming event with 200 worm-infested kids to make you feel the ( Read more... ) -
do you succeed at life?
Wow. One of my many many documents provided too late in the game of this summer contract contains a definition, or set of characteristics, to be considered when evaluating resiliency and ability to succeed in life. If some of my closest friends and I barely meet the mark, I really wonder how anyone expects these poor southern Sudanese tots to ( Read more... )
