I am a complete and total slacker. I’ve been back from Mali for a week now and I’ve had my journal sitting by the computer waiting for me to type my entry in. I am going to get to it. Really.

My only excuse is I have bronchitis and latent tuberculosis. Also really. =) I’m on amoxycilin and go in for a chest X-ray in a couple days.

I don’t feel especially bad, but if you feel sorry for me, feel free to ask me for things to send. =) Jelly beans are always appreciated, but nothing seems to have made it through customs in the last two months, so that is perhaps not advisable.

I could also really go for some sort of massage oil (an essential oil that I could mix with something here would be most economical). I’ll not goto the whole story, but if I can’t see my abs by February or lift my own weight, I have to speak French while playing softball. If you want the whole bit it is here:

http://www.livejournal.com/~ivankara/5513.html

http://www.livejournal.com/~ivankara/5761.html

I’ve started back to the gym and my fifteen months vacation (and being sick) mean I feel like I was hit by a car. I’ve not had time to get into it really and the gym will be closing for Ramadan, so I am guaranteed a new round of pain in about a month. Having something to aid in fixing that would rock.

In other news, targeted house to house searches have turned up the leader of last years’ coup. Security has been tightening up all over the place here. I really don’t know how seriously to take any of it. I’m not personally worried for my security at all. If anything goes down it will likely be religious fundamentalists doing something to the government. The probability is really slight though with all the security checkpoints up right now that anything will happen at all.

Anyhow, I’m going to go be good and work on typing up my Mali journal.

Love,
Will