Here are some random thoughts:

There’s a bullfrog (or I assume it’s a bullfrog) near where I live.  He is so loud and monotonous.  I can even hear him when the ac is on and I have earplugs in.

There’s always one fly or gnat flying around me at all times.  It doesn’t matter where I go or what I do, there is always one.

At school, the guy that sells homemade ice cream at lunch serves it over colored rice or some other substance.  Today I tried it.  Mine was over some gelatinous thing and a pumpkin like squash.  Why is this good?  Ruined my ice cream.  But the prize goes to – Ice Cream Sandwich.  I watched him put four scoops of ice cream on a hot dog bun and give it to one of the kids.

I think I have lice again.  Started doing the shampoo again.

At my house there are hundreds of butterflies with grey on the outside of their wings and purple on the inside.  This creates an amazing effect.  As I walk up to my house I cannot see any butterflies because they are sitting there with their wings closed, but as I step I disturb them and they flutter.  The ground shifts and turns to a sea of fluttering pale purple.  I usually walk up to my house, back to the street and back to the house a couple times.  I assume these are from the worms that drop from trees.  Well done Mother Nature, well done.

I went to the market and walked up to the guy that sells popcorn.  He remembered that last week I got two bags of popcorn and immediately prepared two bags for me when he saw me.  Two bags of popcorn cost 20 baht ($0.57).  Maybe next time I should get 4.

There’s a sign on the main road that is a picture of a cow.  I remember back in February when I was deep in culture shock and I first saw the sign thinking, “I bet if were to see a cow on the highway right now, it would make me happy”.  There are no random cows on the side of the highway.  Today, I came around the corner to see 4 cows on the side of the highway.  No people, just cows walking along the road.  My prediction was correct, seeing cows on the side of the highway does make you happy.

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