September 22, 2008 Update: my roommate and classmates are full of lice, my laptop has become home to a family (extended) of ants that live under the keyboard and crawl out of the USB and headphone holes, I’ve got this bizarre illness I can’t shake that involves sharp, twisting, and grinding pains in my stomach and abdomen every time I consume food, BUT, Kolkata nights have become bearable. I mean, it sucks that Barret can’t get rid of the lice she acquired at Shishu Bavan from those kids, and that Natalie and Taylor now have it as well, and it sucks that not only my laptop, but Roxana’s clothing, our granola, bedsheets, and bathroom are infested with ants, and that I feel physically awful most of the time. It totally rules that the weather and seasons
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