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blasted vampiring e-mail

wow - i haven't used vampire in a really long time...

once again i could read e-mail but not write (or forward, so don't think I don't love God, Iwe!)
So,
Caitlin, I would have responded - miss you hun
Mommy, thanks for the e-mail that made me cry; I bet you can guess which one that was - wish I could have forwarded it to Caitlin, Emmie, Wendy, Katie.... I looked at all Katrina's pics (on dial-up!), I really liked the ones of her and daddy

This was from Amy and I would have filled it and sent it, but, well, yeah...

1) What color are your kitchen plates? no kitchen, no plates, but my bowls are beige

2) What book are you reading now? Dante's Divine Comedy (cuz I finished my Quantum Physics book)

3) What's on your mouse pad? kwiina (that means none, no mouse pad here in Choma)

4) What's your favorite board game? Trivial Pursuit...or maybe 20 Questions, with the right people

5) Favorite magazine? Scientific America or the Vicki's catalog if that counts

6) Favorite smell? my zen candle

7) Least favorite smell? imbebe pee (rats)

8) What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? do i want to get up yet

9) Favorite color(s)? yellow and blue

10) Least favorite color? brown

11) How many rings before you answer the phone? well, see it was two, when it rang, but it's gone - sadness :(

12) Future child's name? Elysium Eden

13) Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla - unless you're talking about...nevermind

14) Do you like to drive fast? my bike?

15) Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? Anyone not met Daddy Bunny?

16) Thunderstorms: well, they were cool when I didn't live in a mud hut

17) What type was your first car? Pontiac 6000 :) thanks mommy and daddy

18) If you could meet one person dead or alive? Richard Feynman

19) Favorite alcoholic drink? here: Amarula and coke, when rich: Henney

20) What is your sign and your birthday? Aries/ April 5

21) Do you eat the stems of broccoli? I miss broccoli

22) If you could have any job, what would it be? yeah.. i shld really figure that one out

23) If you could have any color hair, what would it be? red

24) Is the glass half-full or half-empty? half full

25)Favorite TYPE of movie? dark comedy

26) Do you type with your fingers on the right keys? um - no

27) What's under your bed? a box of candles, an empty scotch bottle, dead (hopefullY) ants, imbebe poop and probably some imbebe sometimes - plus fuzzies from the blanket - I move the bed and sweep it out at least once a month, but it's still icky

28) What is your favorite number? 7

29) Favorite sport to watch? Football - REAL football, not this dumb soccer crap

30) What is your single biggest fear? mini busses

31) Say one thing about the person who sent this to you? randomly wonderful

32) Person most unlikely to respond to this? gee - not sending it

33) Person most likely to respond? ditto

34) Favorite CD? lately X&Y that Timmy brought me back from America - he didn't even know I really wanted it!

35) Favorite TV Show? Insidingo (yeah, none of you know what that is - South African soap opera)

36)Ketchup or mustard? mustard! I miss that too...

37) Hamburgers or hot dogs? right....

38) Favorite soft drink? oh - you mean softie? pineapple fanta

39) The best place you have ever been? Milwaukee

40) What screen saver is on your computer right now? not mine - no screensaver

41) Burger King or McDonalds? Truckers

42) What did you want to be when you were little? a Bond girl :)

Ok guys - miss everyone tons - in Choma until Sat so if the internet co-operates I might be back

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Nostalgic

Actually from yesterday...

...but it wouldn't let me update

Somehow I feel like there's nothing to write - and with how rarely I update, no one to read it anyway. So... I'll just do this i-tunes survey again now that I'm somewhere where I have access to that..
At least you know I haven't been in a bus accident.

My iTunes:
How many total songs? 9187 (running out of room....)

Sort by Song Title
First: 'S Wonderful - Ella Fitzgerald
Last: עלה נישא ברוח (Hebrew Track 1)- עידן רייכל (Hebrew)

Sort by Time
First: Spectograph - Spectograph
Last: Diversity Meeting - Mateyo (If you don't want to include my recordings then it's Exit Music - The Polyphonic Spree)

Sort by Album
First: 'Martini Lounge' - Esquivel
Last: ממעמקים (Hebrew) - עידן רייכל (Hebrew)

Sort by Artist
First: Tearin' Up My Heart - 'Nsync
last: skipping the Hebrew, She's Not There - The Zombies

Ten Most Played Songs
1. Hey Ya - Outkast
2. Roses - Outkast
3. Dracula's Wedding - Outkast
4. "C" Is For Cookie - Cookie Monster
5. Business - Eminem
6. karmaboc - maki
7. Gone - 'Nsync
8. Loverman - Metallica
9. Venus - Air
10. Here for the Party - Gretchen Wilson

10 Recently Played
1. Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
2. Pollution - Limp Bizkit
3. Bicycle Built For Two - Cedarmont Kids
4. Big Pimpin' - Jay-Z
5. 8 Miles and Runnin'(Feat. Freeway) - Jay-Z
6. Confrontation (with Val Jean) - Javert
7. Stars - Javert
8. Son of a Preacherman - Janis Joplin
9. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
10. American Pie - Don McLean

Find "sex." How many songs show up? 64 (but hey, that includes David EsSEX and all the Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic album songs and the Sex Mobb Does Bond album and the Sex Pistols
Find "death." How many songs show up? 13
Find "love." How many songs show up? 446





[How come 26 seems so much more than 22? and should it matter?]

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Lonely

Mansa

In Lusaka after a trip to Mansa (met Lawrence's Mom and Grandma, etc.) - Luapula province is so GREEN and there's WATER!!!! It was really neat. And I found out I like cassava. On the way back yesterday, just between Mansa and Kapri-Mposhi, we passed 3 accidents. I was one of very few people that did not get up to look at them - but the 2 tipped over trucks and the 1st accident were on my side of the bus. The last one was a mini bus accident and Mindela told me about some guy who they were moving into a new mini bus whose head was crushed and bleeding. "Was he alive?" "I think maybe not" nice convo! And today's paper showed another accident from yesterday, just outside Lusaka. Caption read: firefighters removing the body of a baby... and it showed another body lying next to the wreckage.

All this just a week or so after I saw an upside-down mini bus in Lusaka. People were pounding on the windows trying to get out - one of the scariest things I've EVER seen. Someone managed to break one and they managed to pull the people out the back window. I tried to calm people down but no one seemed to speak English or Tonga and then this old lady came up to me holding her head with blood dripping down her arm - she moved her hand, her scalp was peeled back. I gave her my handkerchief and tried to tell her to just hold it down to try to stop the bleeding. And all I could think about was "no plastic, there's no plastic!" (cuz of all the blood everywhere). I called an ambulance and left, nothing more I could do.
...And now Mindela wonders why I don't want to get on mini buses even if they are 1/10th the cost of a taxi!


(We did a safety survey at IST and only 30% of the volunteers there feel safe on transport - #1 concern)

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Scared

Hey from Kitwe

So AOL redesigned (at least on this computer) and I can't even FIND my e-mail. Oh well. Things have been going really well...except some people (eh-hem) don't write letters....

We're at IST and this is free so, what they hey - from Emmie's journal:

My iTunes: I don't have i-tunes so this is just what i can get from the pod itself
How many total songs? 8999 but some are recordings and some i need to get rid of cuz i HATE
First: "'S Wonderful' Ella Fitzgerald
Last: The last ones are actually all blank cuz they're in Hebrew and that doesn't show up on the pod but before that is "Zuriky" by K'antu

Sort by Time
can't do that on the pod but i'm sure the shortest and longest are recordings from zambia

Sort by Album
First: Martini Lounge - Esquivel
Last: That Hebrew album is last, Zoorpa, U2 just before that

Sort by Artist
First: Tearin' Up My Heart - Nsync
last: besides that Hebrew one... She's Not There - The Zombies

Ten Most Played Songs the pod gives 25 and doesn't rank them, sorry
1. "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" The Darkness
2. "Ladies of the Road" King Crimson
3. "The Next Episode" Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
4. "Evil Deeds" Eminem
5. "Makin' Good Love" Avant
6. "Hey Ya!" Outkast
7. "Gone" 'Nsync
8. "Roses" Outkast
9. "Ass Like That" Eminem
10. "Em Calls Paul (skit)" Eminem
11. "Here for the Party" Gretchen Wilson
12. "'C' is for Cookie" Cookie Monster
13. "Like Toy Soilders" Eminem
14. "Loverman" Metallica
15. "Pass the Courvoiseier Part II" Busta Rhymes and P. Diddy
16. "Barnabas Theme from Dark Shadows" Dark Shadows
17. "Milk Shake" Kelis
18. "Ching'ande" Angela Nyirenda
19. "Yakumbuyo" Danny
20. "The Voice Within" Christina Aguilera
21. "Business" Eminem
22. "Venus" Air
23. "Dracula's Wedding" Outkast, feat. Kelis
24. "karmaboc" maki
25. "Smoking Cigarettes" Tweet

10 Recently Played this is not extact
1. "Siku Yalelo" Exile
2. "First Lady" Mr. Nice
3. "Ching'ande" Angela Nyirenda
4. "House Money Car" Nalu
5. "Candy Shop" 50 Cent
6. "With You Part 2" C.R.I.$.I.$.
7. "Bakafwaka" Danny
8. "Awesome God" Michael W. Smith
9. "Curtians" Aphex Twin
10. "Beta TV" Danny

Find "sex." How many songs show up? can't
Find "death." How many songs show up? can't
Find "love." How many songs show up? can't

Maybe I should redo this sometime when I'm in Monze and have i-tunes.... besides, most of you have no idea what these songs are anyway!

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