Ow.

I'm writing to you this afternoon as I'm sitting here drinking my last bag of "throat soother's tea". I've been trying to fight off this stupid CR flu, but no luck. Today I have a massive sinus headache, watery eyes, sore glands in my throat and the chills. Not really good... I'm going to bed early tonight, and I'll see how I feel in the morning. Blech.

Went to dinner last night with New African Friend. Incidentally, host mom was very pleased I decided to go out for dinner, as she hadn't been able to cook yesterday afternoon due to a terrible migrane. Ate at a small Soda in town (we really don't have these in the US, I guess a diner would be the closest thing. In german they're called imbisstueben). Because the Ciudad is sooo big, we ran into four other students eating dinner in this place (which only has 6 small tables). Dinner was nice, there was good discussion about diplomacy, relief and development organizations and the University (for me that's fun). We walked back home (NAF lives one block away from me in the cemetary neighborhood. uh huh, I live like a block from the cemetary...)

All was going well until we got to his street. At the intersection, he paused, put his hand on my back, as if to guide me toward his house and made some lame comment about the night still being young and us having some time to go back to his place. Grr! Damn it! Do I have a sign on my forehead that says "I'm easy"? What is it with guys down here? I totally hate it when my intuition is right about these things! Gah! I heard myself telling him that I had to get home, and was mildly amused when I realized that the whole time I was thinking that I had to get home so I could read more Harry Potter before going to bed. Sadly, this is what my love life has come to: I would rather just go home and read Harry Potter.

And there you have it my friends, NAF loses out to a fictional boy wizzard. Ha! At any rate, I figure this can be my new thing. Men now have to pass the Harry Potter Test. If there's no magic, he's history. Bonus points if he can explain Quidditch.