Mind Dump
Mind dump, because I’m too spastic to type a real entry today.
- The time/season-disorientation I expected has finally hit. It’s almost Halloween, and my mind is still stuck in June. Very strange.
- Met & chatted with a random Obruni in Cape Coast on Saturday; he’s been overlanding all over West Africa since June. Definitely fueled my ever-changing COS-trip dreams.
- I made biscuits and gravy for breakfast today - with no fridge, no milk, no oven. I am awesome.
- On an unrelated note (really! My food is safe, my water yesterday wasn’t), it’s been an “ORS-tastic” day. Fun.
- It’s amazing how such days have become just another part of living in Africa.
- I’m trying to dry limes, and I think it’s working. YAY!
- I’ve felt very MacGuyver this week: added a spring and latch to my screen door, built a drying rack, and made a bunch of new candleholders with nails and tomato paste tins. All materials cannibalised from rubbish heaps on campus. My housemate is in awe of my hammer+leatherman+recycling skills. I’m changing the world one trash pile at a time!
- My cat eats too much sugar. This is bad for her teeth and my sanity. I can has hyperactivity?!
- Every line of poetry, every awestruck utterance, every attempt at descriptive language, that has ever been meant to describe a starry sky: was written with last night’s sky in mind. It was awesome in the best sense of the word.
- Speaking of hyperactive cats: there’s a gecko on my wall right now, and Yosh is trying to attack it.
- I walked out of every class this week either immensely happy with the world, or completely crushed and disappointed. Very Six Flags.
- More on class drama in a future post. I really do have about 3 half-written entries, so I’m not completely full of you-know-what.
- Photos uploading as I type this - busy day at Cape yesterday.
- I. Love. Maps.
- Long hikes. I’ve been obsessing on them for a while. Originally considered either the LT or possibly the AT as viable post-Ghana options. Now I’m thinking a little more exotic. Too early to plan, you say? Never!
- Obviously, I’ve been doing a lot of travel-dreaming this week.
