Train wreck

Have you ever watched a movie or TV show about something so totally horrific that all you want to do is throw up or turn it off? That is what I did today...only I could not turn it off. I just sat there, staring, unable to look away. The show was called "Eaten Alive" on Animal Planet. The first thing I hear when I turn it on is "So and so was a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa." Instantly, I'm hooked. Turns out, he had been back for three years when he figured out he had loiasis. A worm crawling across his eye (from the inside) is what tipped him off. It took ten years of antibiotics to get rid of it. DISGUSTING!! Then there was the guy with elephantitis and another one with the "worst" type of malaria. Basically, I tortured myself for a good hour. The moral of the story: Off! with deet is my new best friend and mosquitoes are the enemy.


I think I'm going to have to buy a new computer. This one is getting progressively slower, freezing, needs a new battery, a new charger, the screen is detaching from the keyboard and several of the keys have broken off. The warranty has already run out so the price to fix it/replace the parts is almost the price of a new computer. Not to mention, this computer weighs about twelve pounds. I can get one from Best Buy that weighs two pounds for $400.

List of things I need to do:
1) apply for a new social security card
2) arrange to have my phone service suspended
3) complete aspiration statement/mail it
4) create a living will, give my dad power of attorney
5)defer my loans
6) apply for an absentee ballot
7) try and sell my furniture
8) get the second dose of the chicken pox vaccine
9) buy a whole bunch of stuff
10) HAVE FUN!

The list could keep going but I'm not ready to come to terms with it yet.