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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Dakota Summer

Summer is officially here and with it is my seasonal Tourette Syndrome. If I stand outside trying to have a conversation for any length of time I invariably jerk my head or wave my hands in an attempt to dissuade mosquitoes and other insects from using my body for food, rest, or shelter. I remember missionaries in Africa complaining about flies but I can never remember doing the amount of flailing that I do now when I was in Nairobi. Or Kampala, for that matter. Of course, heaven forbid that Africa not be equated with insects. Or disease - apparently there is a new sickness ( I never heard of even though I lived a mere hour and a half from the Rift Valley) here to terrorize the Midwest from Africa. Goodbye West Nile (Uganda), hello Rift Valley Fever (Kenya). I wonder what people would think if I told them the mosquitos biting me are going to carry the parasitic mosquitoes from my two incidences with malaria in (the jungles and underbrush!) Africa.

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