"I am in love with today..."

-As said by my lovely roommate Nichole. That was on Sunday, when it was rainy all day and everyone just spent the day curled up inside watching movies and cuddling. Saturday was very similar. Overall it was a good weekend to just relax and take care of little things after running off on adventures for the last few weeks. Sunday night we had a pot luck that inadvertently consisted of comfort foods - I spent the afternoon making chicken pot pies that are now stocking out fridge for the rest of the week. On a healthier note, I also acquired the communal blender for a little while, so I've been making smoothies at every opportunity.

A lot of people have been sick over the last week or so. It's probably everybody's body punishing them for not sleeping enough and being in sketchy places over spring break and easter break and everything. I had my little 24 hour fever last Wednesday, but now I've been coughing and sneezing since then, which will hopefully go away soon. It's been interfering with my sleep - I woke up this morning at 4:30, so I'm creepily writing this in the dark in my living room. I've also got what started out as a tiny blister on my foot but has grown into a big infected thing, which is pretty unfortunate. It's about the size of a penny now and despite my efforts to drain it a few times and pack it with neosporin and wash it several times a day with protex, is not looking any better. A lot of people are having similar problems that all start out the same way, with tiny little cuts on the feet that progress into terrible things. Hopefully this will all go away soon.

On a lighter note, I found people to play soccer with! Yesterday I went out to kick the ball around with Eli and Kirsten (usually I just go and be a loser by myself and juggle before doing a sprint workout) and had a skinny Fijian girl run up to us and ask if we were playing with any teams here. She was pretty interesting - her name is Andy, and she played with guys her whole life, playing for the Fijian national team until she graduated from USP and moved to Australia where she's working as an engineer (or something like that). We talked for a while and she said we should meet up this week so I can fill out some paperwork so I can play with a team, very exciting. We then played a little pickup game with a bunch of Fijian guys that was pretty much a mud bath that went until way after dark - it was really fun though. I'm really happy - it only took me a couple months, but I've got something figured out now. For now though, I'm going to try to get a couple hours of sleep in before lab...we're going out to collect marine invertebrates in a mangrove swamp, so I should probably rest up so I've got enough energy to chase after clams and snails.