noodle quest 2006

i have diagnosed myself with the following two prognoses;
1. pill-induced esophagitis
2. fleas
the first is from taking the anti-malaria “doxycycline” with food, water and right before sleeping for the past month. i felt an intense burning in my chest and pressure on my breast bone. i read the doxy literature an di had been taking the medicine opposite from how it si advised to be taken for the past month. i am probably going to discontinue taking the medication for at least a while as there is no malaria risk in teh areas we are traveling to in thailand but i might reconsider this in laos.
the fleas. i think i have fleas. to me this has similar glamour to a black eye and i think it is pretty cool especially because they are not itchy bites which makes flea bites my new favorite bug bite. the worst bites are listed below with foundation for their rank from worst to best:
1. sand fly bites: SCREW YOU SAND FLIES! how dare you attack my poor feet everytime i go to the beach in yur sick and subsversive way whereby i have a nice day on the beach for hours realizing only at night the itchy destruction you have caused me! sand flies are the itchiest and most long lasting of bites and they come in hordes.
2. mosquitos: even with the net you manage to find your way in and eat up my legs starting at the ankles where the sand flies left off. i hate you.
3. red ants: the easiest of the bites to avoid as they live in designated areas, teh red ant bites are a rage of burny fire that takes over whatever they touch. ooooooooooouch but infrequently, earnign them the not-so-bad rank of third.
4. fleas: fleas, you are okay by me. you are pretty small, you jump around alot and you really don’t itch. your worst crime is making me look like a diseased chicken pox leper which in comparison to bites 1-3 is a forgivable sin. also you make me feel a little bit sktech and sad when i get into my bed at night and i would prefer if you wreen’t around- but whatever, you cool.
we are going to stay in koh mak until the full moon an dthen head to laos where we hear it is a chilly 58 degrees! woooooow! i guess this means we have to go shopping in bangkok for a minute for some long pants… too bad!

we are now in the super chill island of koh mak. it si me jess, and a whole mess of european hippies and hippy families with their small arian children. what bliss! it is actually very beautiful and quiet and we are happy.
our bungalow costs us 4$ a night and here is what it includes: four walls, a door, two windows, a king sized “mattress” on a wood platform and plenty of friendly friends of teh insect variety that paolo the italian and buddy the swede kindly remove for us. thank you friends!
i will write quickly because i am on a pier and the ‘car” that brought me will leave me here, probably. this car was made from wood- it is really actually very thought provoking. hmmmm i finished hocus pocus and now i have strtaed reading the god of small things for the 7th time but i think i will actually finish it this time. in new york it is way to slow and delicate and detailed a read but here it is very suitable.
mmmmmmmmm don’t really know what else i want to say right now. i hope all of my readers are styaing warm in this, the onset of winter and think of me when they eat guacamole, spicy sausage and tuna sashimi.
that’s all….
oh, a quick lesson in thai:
hello: sa-wah di kah/krap (women/men)
thank you: kap koon kah/krap (women/men)
we are still studying khmer so our brains are near full.
bye bye!

Ugh. Arriving and traveling in Thailand has been nothing but really shitty. most people are rude (travelers and thais) or at least enough to make us unhappy, everything is way more expensive than we had thought and thaialnd ... [Continue reading this entry]