The Ciudad Misery Index...

If the economaniacs (er...economists) can do the misery index in the States, I can do it here too. I have decided to track the madness with weekly updates of things that go wrong here. This was a fairly calm week:

1. Number of robberies this week of people I know in CR: 1
2. Number of robberies I wittnessed: 0
3. Number of bad dreams involving robberies: 1
4. Current number of mosquito bites: at least 15
5. Number of mosquitoes killed in my office this week: at least 10.
6. Number of times the power went out today: 2 (while I was in the shower= no hot H2o)
7. Number of times the water went out: 0
10. Number of times I've eaten rice and/or beans today: 0

This just in...another one of my students was robbed last weekend. She had all of the stuff stolen out of her bag during a bus trip to Jaco (yes, the same town I was in) last weekend (must have been on a different bus). She put her bag down on the floor under her seat and when she retrieved it at the end of the trip, it was empty. Ingenious buggers...