age

yesterday night we celebrated the 30th birthday of one of our expat friends here in zambia. it was somewhat of a gongshow, and amongst over things i discovered that ethiopian food may just be my least favorite genre of all foods

i'm 23 now, and i can still quite clearly remember what happened last year, 5 years ago, even 10 years ago. 10 years ago, when i was in grade nine, i thought that 23 was a dreadfully old age, a distant specter aeons away from where i was. well, here i am. it seems that life accelerates the older we get. haha! i know i'm quite young still, but it's true that the decades will only keep piling up.

on the topic of growing old, i was watching the notebook the other day, and at the end of the movie a couple very old and very much in love die in their sleep. sorry for spoiling that ending.

i swear one of the two main reasons i am christian is that i just can't stand the idea of a love like that dying after just 80 or so years. that would be just too sad. better there is a heaven where love can continue to bloom.

in other news today i was drawing blood for some electrolytes/creatinine for an HIV patient and splashed a load on my hand. i'm glad i had my gloves on, but often i don't. better safe than sorry, though the rate of transmission from blood to unbroke skin for hiv is ridiculously low