better

As news of my being sick has percolated through my social channels, I wanted to let everyone know that I have, I believe, finally recovered. My final bout of fever subsided last Friday night, leaving me lying on the top bunk with a curiously relieved feeling in the wee hours of the morning. Since then I have been gradually increasing daily activity and food intake. Yesterday I made it to frisbee practice, where I skipped most of the conditioning activities and was informed by one team member that I "look like a fucking twig."

Manila

I've been spending more time than usual in this city lately.

Really, there are two cities. One is air conditioned. In this city, you take taxis from your high rise office building to your favorite bistro for dinner to your nice house in your residential community. Your maid sweeps your driveway and your cook makes you breakfast.

The other city stays in the shade, as much as possible. This is the city of mangoes and dvds sold on the sidewalk. Of dirty children commanding you to give them money and bicycles with sidecars. This Manila is not going green or worrying about zero-waste initiatives, though they aren't flying either.

The tourist in Manila, unless they came to this country for western restaurant chains or prostitutes, is advised to head off into the more remote parts of the archipelago.

in sickness and health

Nope, not married yet, that's not what was wrong with me. I've just had a sinus infection and some accompanying ailments (mostly in the realms of congestion and digestion). May has started out slowly, and it looks like I'll be spending most of the month working on stuff for the upcoming school year. But not working too hard. While I've been sick I've been focusing on getting out of bed and house enough to not waste away to nothing.

We have our Close of Service conference the first week in June, and then school starts back up. After two months of that I'm done.

(the joke about marriage is off a CD of oldtimey folk music I received for Christmas)