things to do....

Things to do during a 6pm to 6am blackout:

>Play guitar in the dark until you hear the neighborhood kids lurking outside your window
>Read The People's History of the United States by the light of your crank flashlight until a) the flashlight runs out of batteries or b) you get a crick in your neck from trying to balance the flashlight on your shoulder while aiming it at your book while lying in bed
>crank flashlight
>use your stethoscope, looped over the blade of a powerless ceiling fan to create a nifty little hook for your flashlight
>Go to sleep at 9pm
>Cook. Gas stoves still work.
>Stub your toe
>Curse like noone speaks your language.
>realize that everyone here speaks your language and quiet down
>Leaf through useless Twi language book you bought in Kumasi
> wonder what genius would create a Twi language book in which pages three through five have random selections of two, three and four letter Twi words, without definition, translation, pronunciation or context (seriously, a page of random two-letter combinations).
>Try to remember when the sun came out over the weekend, because you KNOW that you didn't really get a sunburn while it was cloudy
>Miss yogurt
>Stand in the middle of the corn patch that might have been your front yard and marvel at the stars until you're sure you have malaria.
>Decide whether or not you should resolve to never again drink Ghanaian Gin (a.k.a. Pusher - pronouced Poo0-sha if you're a good Ghanaian)
> decide to make no resolutions you can't keep. After all, it was a good party (Someone I didn't meet got engaged to someone else I didn't meet).

>Inflammable? Really?

>Wonder: is Aids real? and if it were, what could I do?

>Oh.


>Wonder if they have halloween here, and if you could really find your soulmate by finding the one person who recognizes your costume, The Condom Police.


> Stay in the office late and blog.