Today my alarm woke me.  It was way too early and I wasn’t ready.  But, this is the first morning in a long time that I wasn’t awake at dawn.  Usually I the birds wake me at dawn even though I have ear plugs and white noise.  I don’t get up, when I hear them, but I grumble and try to go back to sleep.  I’m not actually sure if I have slept until my alarm once since I moved here.  Today, I slept until my alarm went off.  I assume indifference is conducive for sleeping.

One of the biggest causes of motorbike accidents in Thailand is due to dogs.  There are so many stray dogs here.  I am very observant anytime I go anywhere, looking off to the side for any surprise dogs.  I never thought that one of those sweet lemon yellow butterflies my be my end.  Yesterday, I hit one while going to get printer ink.  Or it hit me, I’m not sure.  It hit me on the cheek and it’s wing hit my eyeball.  For a few seconds I couldn’t see and was stunned.  I swerved, but managed to keep the swerve minimal and regain my focus on the road.  I thought, really?  All these terrifying critters and my undoing would be a lemon yellow butterfly?  Not today.

I mailed a package from Vietnam in March.  It got to Colorado last week.  Wow.

School was ok today.  I was exhausted by the end of the day, but had my monk class tonight.  I really just wanted to come home and crash instead of teach.  Still, the class went by fairly quickly.  I spent most of the day in the indifference place.

A week or so ago, I decided it was time to try some high tech pest control measures.  I stuffed plastic bags in some of the suspect holes in the house.  It seems like a useless attempt, but I have no other ideas.  Then, I wasn’t sure if I was trapping critters in or out because I didn’t know where they were at the time. Tonight, I noticed that there seems to be a lot less rat poop on the floors (or is it tokay poop?).  The bags have not moved.  So maybe it’s actually working.

The school just hired a Chinese language teacher.  He is now sharing and office with me, Mae, and the screaming cat.  He’s real nice and is excited to practice English with me.  I know they put us all in the same office because they aren’t quite sure what to do with us, but I enjoy having office mates.  I got so much gift fruit today.  I got two guavas, some mystery goo made from a fruit I’ve never seen before, dragon fruit, lychee flavored yogurt and 5 mangos.

Today Tip told me her daughter has lice.  Oh lovely, do I have lice again?  I used the straight iron tonight just in case – fry those eggs before they can hatch.  My hair is finally getting longer.  It’s hard to tell when it’s curly, but after I straightened it, it looks so long.

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