Inappropriateness

Since I cannot express every incredibly insane thought of mine on the other blog, I figured I'd update this one on any and all things random and inappropriate. All for your reading pleasure.

If God loved women, He would have made it easier for us to go to the bathroom. I mean, seriously. Why do guys have it so easy? Every night when I walk into the pit latrine, I think about this. At night, all the bugs are attracted to the light bulbs in the latrines (when there is power), so going to the bathroom is an episode of listening to bugs buzz incessantly around your head. It'd be so much easier to pee standing up and be done with it. Nope, instead I have to worry about things crawling out of the hole and up my leg; if a mosquito is going to bite me in an inappropriate place... you get what I mean. I KNOW I said I was going to stop blogging about bathrooms, but really, it's just such a fun experience out here that I can't not talk about it.

To go months without sex... I'm just going to say, it's very depressing.

So I'm out in a remote area. I never wear pants while I'm out here. I'm always in a skirt and can I just say, when it's hot, the chaffing that goes on is out of this world. I never have this issue in the USA but here, it seems to happen every once in a while. Grr. But when I'm alone in my room, I strip down to shorts and a sports bra, throw on my iPod (with broken headphones, by the way), and jump around. It's my one way of relieving stress and frustration without having to choke, stab, punch, or murder someone. It's also a way of working out.

The traditional food here is matoke, plantains boiled and then mushed together. Usually it's coupled with beans or a meat. I eat it every day for lunch. Honestly, when I get back to the US, I'm not eating bananas again for at least 6 months. It gets a little... old? But my Africa diet rocks. I'm pretty sure I can lose the weight I gained in Boston (which I did cuz I didn't work out and ate like crap).

Every night, I hide in my mosquito net like a freakshow because I hate mosquitoes and they annoy me. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, paranoid there is a mosquito in my net, eating me alive. I know, I'm nuts. It's the mefloquine.
And why oh why was that military guy married?!?!?!?!?! Girls, if I could have taken a picture of him to show you, I would have. Fantaaaaaastic bod, great tattoos... anyway...

My little sister is adorable. I love her. This is the song she wrote for me and sent me in an email, with directions and everything:
WHEN THERE IS A DASH BETWEEN A WORD THEN U SPELL IT OUT!! XAMPLE: c-a-t

I HAVE A J,
A ..........J-E-,
I HAVE A J-E-S-S-I-C-A,
THAT LIVES IN MY F-A-M-I-L-Y
AND I AM VERY S-A-D
THAT SHE IS IN...U-G-A-N-D-A
FOR THE S-U-M-M-E-R!! :(
JESSICA IS IN UGANDA FOR THE SUMMER!!
(IM STILL VERY SAD)
:(

More ideas...

I really need some help, people... So more ideas on naming a new blog?

Learning Luganda
Away I Go
JC Journeys
XOXO from Abroad
Adventures of ____________________
I don't know... my creative juices are dying

Help?

Hey all who read this blog,

I'm planning to start a travel blog but also keeping this one as a personal blog. The travel blog will be maintained as semi-professional, anyone can read it. This one will be my random thoughts, unnecessary comments, and all-out rants (when necessary), which I find funnier and more enjoyable to read. But not necessarily appropriate for oh... say... my parents and professors. So here's the deal. I have to name the travel blog. I have no idea what to call it. So HELP? Any ideas? Just throw some out there. I plan on keeping this blog for all my travels, not just my 6 month adventure interning in Uganda. SO...

Restless At Heart
Small Girl, Big World
Where My Feet Take Me
One, Two, Three, GO

I don't know... the more I think about it, the more ridiculous the names seem to get... so I could really use your help!!

Bye Bye Boston

Well guys, I'm officially not a resident of Boston anymore. For now. I moved home today. 17 hours in a vehicle and bang, I'm back in Wisconsin, laying in my twin bunk bed. I do love this bed. I've had it since I was a very small person. I looked back at my posts about moving out to Boston and realized I have the same philosophy as I did when I moved before: Less is More. Obviously I didn't learn that. And obviously I have way too much junk. It's currently all sitting in the garage. I will have to go through it all tomorrow... aka today... I'm definitely dreading that task.

Sad/frustrating news: a bag of mine got crushed in the packing of the van. A bag that should not be crushed. It now has permanent wrinkles and will never be the same. I'm so sad.

I miss the people who touched my life in Boston already. Sigh.

Uganda... 1 week... Lift off will occur Thursday, July 8th. I have so much to do before I leave!!! I feel like I should make an Africa blog. So many people do it. I might as well follow the trend. I'm thinking: travel blog for anyone interested and keeping this one for random brain ramblings.

Okay, my brain is failing right now so I'm signing off.

My pending return

I will be in the Midwest tomorrow at this time. Hopefully happily blogging from my parents' dining room table and playing with Dumb-Dumb. Here's the thing. I have to pack. And packing is hard. Very hard. I have things everywhere. And I have no idea what I'm doing. What do I need? What should I bring? I always bring too much of what I don't need and not enough of what I need.

Readers of blog who are living in Wisconsin, I want to see you. Please and Thank You.

I will be headed to DC for Memorial Day Weekend. Yes, I am flying to Wisconsin just to turn around and drive 12 hours to DC. Because why? Because my family has a weird love of road-tripping. So for a full 24hrs, I will be jamming out to my iPod as my little sisters watch awesome kid movies and I will ponder how much my butt feels like it's flattening out. BUT I will be back June 1st. So I will want to see as many people as I can. Also because at this rate, I don't know whether or not I'll be around in July. Yes, I'm still debating UG vs PH...

So here I am, packing with pop music.

Stress and Sh*t

My life has become a sort of rolling stress bubble. What does not disappear becomes rolled into my giant sticky ball of stress. Imagine a huge bubble ball rolling down the brick sidewalk/road of New England with me walking inside of it like a hamster inside of its ball. WITH all these stressful things jiggling around inside the ball with me. So welcome to my world.

I hate getting sick. Especially during the school year because then I don't want to do any work, but I have to. The pressure in my sinuses is so bad and my head feels like it's a huge balloon. This is just not cool. Problem is: I have a big paper due... oh TOMORROW. I have like 1 page written. Needs to be 6. We'll see how this goes. Also because there are more important things to be doing in life right now. Like what you ask? Oh... let's see:

blogging- which is what I'm doing right now. 
Vampire Diaries- yes I'm getting sucked into a show about Vampires. Yes, I still hate Twilight. I think I only like this show due to the music they play throughout it. Anyway, judge me. It's okay, I do it all the time.
Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice- new episodes tonight, I will not miss them. Grey's Anatomy has seriously got to stop firing people or else I'm giving up watching it like I did back in seasons 3 and 4 and most of 5.
SLEEPING- my head hurts, I'm tired. I look like crap. Yes, I just want to go to bed.

Curse the sickness. It's going to kill me, I swear. Stupid HIV... if only you didn't exist. Then I wouldn't have to write all these freaking papers about you. Stupid stupid virus.

Initiation into the blogging

I have finally made the blog I have been planning (procrastinating) for months. I have to admit, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Maybe I need to learn to speak computerish… computerian… computerese… the language of the computers, whatever that’s called. But I think I like this background and the overall blog. My habit of indecisiveness will probably make me change it again at some point. But this is it for now. So I guess all I have to say at the moment is: Hello Blog World!