disclaimer and warnings

Here in Kampala it is now the first of December. My computer still thinks it's monday night in san francisco, and I haven't the energy or technical skills to disabuse it of this notion.

I have been working as a vso medical volunteer here in Kampala for slightly more than 5 months of a year-long placement. Over these months I have been sending out long rambling hyperdramatic emails to loved ones, family and friends. A few of whom ( a very few) have chastised me for being too lazy to write a blog such that I finally went to blogspot and discovered that even someone with my limited motivation and understanding of computers can have a blog in a matter of minutes.

So here it is. A blog. Those of you who asked for it, you know who you are, the rest of you probably clicked on a link for male enhancement.

First of all, the opinions expressed herein are the product of a deeply disturbed imagination coupled with a cynical nature and should not be thought to reflect the facts, the truth, reality or the official views of CUSO-VSO or any other person or organization described in the rambling passages that will fill this blog.

I am working as a medical volunteer. Some of the posts here may be on the unsettling side. I suggest at least a glass of red wine before proceeding. Most of the what I will write about, however, will not be of a medical nature. In general I will try to describe random moments of the life of a mzungu in Uganda--things that strike me as funny, ironic, or maybe even educational.

In the next few weeks, I will try to get some pictures up and post some of my previous meanderings through the countryside. But now I have to make a roadtrip to Soroti, and the macbook is not invited.