Outside of my trailer, running along the walls of our concrete barriers, are water faucets.  They’re pretty freakin’ handy when you wanna wash out your coffee mug or scrub your hands without walking the 200 yards or so to the bathroom.  The purity of the water is, of course, questionable.  I usually have to let it run for a few seconds before diving into it…  water isn’t supposed to be orange, is it?  Well, lately there has been an unusual odor eminating from the general area of my water faucet.  Often before bed, I will pop out there to brush my teeth.  I’ll just lean against the concrete and give a quick scrub.  But now I’m finding I have to do a brush-n-run because of the smell.  Wet the toothrush… step back 10 feet… rinse my mouth… step back 10 feet…  rinse the brush… and run back in my room.  ugh.  And it just dawned on me what’s causing the noxious odor:  urine!

Ok boys… listen to me.  It is disgusting enough that you are too lazy to actually take your happy ass to the bathroom and piss… instead, you just unzip and tinkle where ever you damn well please.  And what’s even more disgusting is that I’m finding MANY of you feel that it’s OK to piss in an empty water bottle or coke can or whatever IN YOUR TRAILERS!  God knows where you’re depositing the full containers….  my only assumption is that they’re being dumped out under the water faucet I use to brush my teeth.  It’s one thing to be so lazy, you just piss outside of your trailer.  It’s an even HIGHER level of laziness when you can’t even find the motivation to open the door to your room… instead finding it more logical to piss into an empty container. 

In other news, I saw a one legged pidgeon today on the way to breakfast.  I had to stop and watch it for a few minutes.  It was devouring some eggs someone dropped on the ground.  (The irony of that was enough to make my day.)  Soon, someone else stopped near me and watched for a moment too.  A small crowd started to gather to watch this amputeed marvel.  I think I stayed and watched mainly because I wanted to see it fall on it’s side.  It looked like it would at any moment, but it didn’t. 

Lastly, I’ve discovered Kiwi yogurt!  Oh my god.  This must be the greatest thing I’ve ever eaten.  And why the hell isn’t this available in America??  Or if it is, why didn’t I know about it?  Every once in a while, the chow hall has these yogurt cups.  In the past, I never grabbed any because I’m not that huge of a fan of yogurt.  Not to mention everything is in Arabic so I wasn’t really sure what they were to begin with.  Well, I got some guts yesterday and took one.  It had a big picture of a Kiwi on the front with the poetic scrawl of arabic written around it.  Heavenly.  Just heavenly.  And it’s not just because it has fresh kiwi fruit in it… the yogurt has a different tecture than the American version.  Our’s is creamier.  The stuff here is almost chalky.  Today I grabbed 3 more.  I think my mission in life right now is to ship a crate of the stuff back to America.  Or possibly just write Dannon.

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