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Thought I'd make two updates... As of this Friday (local-Korean time) I will officially be putting up my 100-week countdown board...that's right...dipping into double-digits before this wild ride is officially up. So cheer or fear...I'm heading home eventually... And...I survived a pretty serious food poisoning bout this past half week. Ate a large portion of dalk-galbi on Sunday night. Jihye is a practicing vegetarian, so she didn't eat any meat, however she still threw up once Sunday night...I spent Sunday night tossing and turning and thought I was just restless. Woke up to 12+ hours of vomiting, 36+ hours of diarrhea, and no food for more than two days. Heckuva way to shed 7 lbs. in 2 days. I have had one very serious bout of food poisoning, however this time added a new level to it... Wikipedia includes this in its definition of dehydration: Symptoms may include headaches similar to what is experienced during a hangover, muscle cramps (especially leg cramps), a sudden episode of visual snow, decreased blood pressure (hypotension), and dizziness or fainting when standing up due to orthostatic hypotension. Untreated dehydration generally results in delirium, unconsciousness, swelling of the tongue and, in extreme cases, death. The symptoms become increasingly severe with greater water loss. One's heart and respiration rates begin to increase to compensate for decreased plasma volume and blood pressure, while body temperature may rise because of decreased sweating. At around 5% to 6% water loss, one may become groggy or sleepy, experience headaches or nausea, and may feel tingling in one's limbs (paresthesia). With 10% to 15% fluid loss, muscles may become spastic, skin may shrivel and wrinkle (decreased skin turgor), vision may dim, urination will be greatly reduced and may become painful, and delirium may begin. Losses greater than 15% are usually fatal. groggy-check! headaches-check! muscle cramps-check! dizziness when standing-check! severly darkened urine-check! no urine-check! delirium-check! death- This was my first experience with delirium...I wasn't sure what I was experiencing, but I tried several times to explain to Jihye that I was losing control of my mind and it was rather terrifying. It was like having a movie screen pulled directly out of your mind to a fixed position about 12 inches in front of your eyes playing images of your real life, past, a scrambled present, and imagined future, so while you're watching the images on the screen, you're living in your own mind, and sensing the chasm between, leading you to feel lost and vacant, all the while getting washed over with waves of body heat like tides and breaking out into hot anxiety sweating episodes. The closest analog I could come up with was the effects of Scarecrow's spray had on victims in the new Batman movies...it is like that. I was not figuratively losing my mind...I wasn't controlling it anymore... Note the Wikipedia definition again, the last line and a half: "...and delirium may begin. Losses greater than 15% are usually fatal." But...I didn't die..so..hurray! Umm..anybody else doing anything interesting lately? April...house photos?!?