Which is to say I went rock climbing here in Bamako. Not the silly kind of rock climbing you get in the city where there are clearly defined places to grab and place your feet. No. I didn't have those. Instead, I had, "I'm exhausted. My fingers, hands, arms, knees, and legs are all scratched/cut up. I'm way too high to go down, and I have no idea where to next reach to grab because I see no places to grab on the smooth rock ahead. This could be... tricky." But I lived (obviously), and I'm looking forward to doing it again. With that said, I do have to mention the fact that it actually physically hurts to type--because of the cuts and scratches (many of which are on my fingertips).
Recently, I wrote a zombie survival short story. There's a large chance that it'll make it into a larger, zombie survival novel that I've been kicking around. It's received decent reviews on Urbis so far. With that said, it's only received 2 reviews and it's a 1st draft so far. But I have high hopes. Horror is a genre I loved to write when I was much younger (high school and the 1st couple of years of undergrad), but then I moved away from it thinking I was more mature and sophisticated than that. It's good to write about it again (though I still greatly enjoy my literary fiction). If you have access to Urbis (it's free to join, by the way), you should check it out. I could, of course, always just post it on my writerly lj, but I never get comments there, and I can get random strangers to comment on Urbis, so I'm thinking it's my better route.
I'm also submitting The Sun's Surrender into a contest (where it'll actually be read by an agent). Cover letter and the 1st 25 pages. I need to submit it soon, but I'd also REALLY like to get input from others on any changes that may need to be made. Deadline's coming up soon on that.
My Halloween tradition was met tonight. I watched Halloween (the 1978 original), and it was good. In a couple of days, I hope to watch Halloween II--which is important because it completes the original Halloween story.
Tomorrow, there's a hash run. They have it broken into two separate things. There's an 8k run and a 6k walk. I've been working out a lot lately, but I also know that there's no way in hell that I'm fit enough to run 8k right now, so I'll take the 6k walk.
Yesterday, I discovered that the "supermarket" near me sells 1 liter box wine for 1.500 CFA (with a current exchange rate of roughly $1 USD = 478 CFA), which means that I can buy box wine for just over $3 USD. That is news I really shouldn't have discovered. Especially since it's Spanish wine (my own kryptonite). But, I also figure that the fact that I can count the amount of times I've drank alcohol on one hand since arriving in this country, I *should* be okay. Should being the appropriate word.
That's it for now. Soon(ish), I'll post more pictures online. Until then, I trust that all is well.
Cheers.
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