Tower Of Babel

Well, I here, jus finish doing the ’stuff’ that I needed to do. That includes cooking mi Sunday dinner….what…you waan know what I cooked? OK, since you so faas…..some brown stew Jamaican chicken that me season up from yesterday, some shrimp fried rice, and likkle stir fry cabbage and carrot. A it dat. Who it nuh suit, can do dem next best.

In addition, just about all the secretarial work I needed to get done for my Wednesday trip is finito…just need to file some documents and put it near to the suitcase so me nuh figet fe pack it…head nuh good like first time. The two CDs with my talks cook and curry from Thursday night when I got compi back from the hospital…never needed any more computer crap to befall me….so did that pronto.

At the moment, it is cool and grey, but not actually raining, very still in fact and I a listen to Kenny G…Moments…wikid CD for those who can appreciate mood/reflective music. (Not you Mad Bull )

What else has been happnin on the weekend? Well, despite being on call, it has been ok. Rain has been on and off. Yesterday in the evening I had dinner at Rib Kage wid a bredrin. TOO MUCH FOOD! Me had some rib tip thing, with a garden salad and a baked potato. I doh think I had a sixth of the potato…dat suppem mussi did grow inna States and feed on steroids. It was all good eating nevertheless. Washed it down with a Red Stripe Lite. (Yeah, like I said, I was …and still am…on call…..till Tuesday 8AM…payment for going to conference and then tekking a few days when I get back)…so it go. While there, Jamdown Canadian called me to say that I could pass thru a pickney birthday party that he was having at his yard for his neice….he had more beers and ting. Ok, I would have one. So, left Rib Kage and went there. Good conversation took place and a number of people I knew were there. Well, eventually, the one Lite turned into a total of four (including the one I had with dinner….. )….what can I tell you? Anyhow, man was still very coherent…’twas Lite I was imbibing….left there at about 10:30 PM and headed home in more rain.

This morning after heading back from doing my ward rounds, I hear on the radio that one of our Most Wanted criminals was shot by the Police from Crimestop today. I figet de name, but he was the leader of the “Clansman’ Gang and apparently wanted for nuff murders and ting….I seh…anodda one less. Sound heartless but a jus so. I guess it will be in the headlines tomorrow. Hey, my favoutite song on the Kenny G CD a play….”The Champions Theme”….lovely….I have no clue how to post music so I can’t share it with y’all….too bad.

I also heard that in Small Island Girl’s country, they have had the second earthquake in a week! Apparently no injury though… can you confirm SmIG? What going on there……earthquakes and bombings getting regular…not that we here doh have our share of worries….

One last bit of chat. A Doc. at work shared this with me. She works at one of the Research Units on campus. UWI doing a study in collaboration with other Docs in the States and Europe. The people from the US sent a representative here for a few days to help ‘oversee’ the local work…apparently dem was expecting nutten but chaos from our peeps. My sistren tells me that the US rep had to tell them how surprised she was when she met the staff as they all seemed so…..“NORMAL!” So, she said they asked her what she meant by that……Well, she said before she left to come here she was advised by her US counterparts to be very careful while she was here…..OK…..Why? Yes, we do have crime….The woman said she was told that we in Jamaica are ALL ARMED, and that we all are high on narcotics. And that she was to be extra careful as CHOLERA is rampant here!!!! What the Ra$$!!! Cholera?? I have NEVER seen a case and it has been eradicated from this country for I doh know how long! I tell you. In addition, the woman says she was impressed with the ease that she could extract the necessary data for the study…she says retrieval was far easier and more organized than in the US. Anyway, at least she realized that all was not as chaotic here as she was expecting. That is about all I sharing now. I going see if I can get a little R&R in after eating the dinner that I just done cook. Tek care.

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