cameroon log

what a sucky day

Yesterday i got a baby porcupine.. I was going to raise, breed, and eventually eat. Last night, someone stole it. I think it was one of my neighbor's kids... he, uncharacteristically spent a few hours hanging out with me yesterday. I was thinking.. I wonder if he is doing this because he thinks it will help him steal the porcupine...and I thought, wow.. I am cynical...but yeah, maybe. Sure enough. At least he didn't take the hutch I had built. I also got pretty ill last night. A food allergy that seems to be new in the past few years for me. Intense headache, followed by vomiting, and then a sleep that is more like being passed out. Today, I had to deal with an unrelenting slew of demands on me. It never stops, and everyone tries to take advantage of me on everything. One example. This girl died tonight. She was 22. Her family asked me to make up some posters with her photo, a few words, and the dates of her life. I stopped what I was working on, and did them. I have now learned that I have to get paid up front for everything. I printed one of them, and not the full 10 they asked for. Then they said.. oh, we forgot to ask you to put her name on it, and we can't pay for them... can you give us a discount. So, I already do this at cost.. not including my time. I then get shit for being a white man. Oh, and the kicker.. she died of AIDS.. of course, she didn't according to people here. She died of slow poisoning. I mentioned that to Alex, who said: "of course that is what she died of, but you can't say that, and what good would it do anyway".. so I told him about the 14 year old girl who said: "aids doesn't exist, no one ever dies of it, you just made it up to keep me from having sex, and making babies". Makes me feel real good about spending my time doing favors for folks like that...

I miss by baby porcupine.