All animals are equal but some are more equal than others...

Kenyan politicians suck.

I am in a state.I mean really, I can't remember the last time I was like this. I haven't experienced this level of anxiety since I started university and its causing me a great deal of grief.

I am Kenyan, and in case you didn't get the memo, Kenya is in a bit of a fix. I hate the word trauma and the way its bandied about but I am starting to wonder if I am somehow traumatised by all the stuff that I've seen in my country, and all the stuff that's happened in my life. To take you back a few paces, a few days after I wrote my last post I developed a nasty ear infection AND I was compelled to go home because someone close to me had fallen ill and needed my help. Then a guy that I had attended a conference with the week earlier developed meningitis and was in a coma. As far as I know he is still in a coma but it freaked me out because I actually got an email from the German Public health authorities warning me that I may catch meningitis. EEK!!

Then I go home and my country has perhaps the most disastrous elections in the history of elections in the world. I can't say much in these pages but suffice it to say that things are getting completely out of hand. Then my computer crashed and I lost a draft of my dissertation. Then I tried to change the topic of one of my essays, due in two weeks and the lecturer won't see me. Then I got back and had a tiff with my flatmates. And then my new computer doesn't have half the software I thought it would. And finally, to cap all this off...someone has the cheek to accuse me of not being Kenyan enough.

I've been in the library for almost two days straight and I haven't accomplished anything. I'm like a deer caught in the headlights and its making me freak out even more. But I can't get an extension because I need a letter from my doctor proving that I have "stress". I know I have stress, I can feel it in my fingers and in my toes ok?

Anyway, that's the status...keep me in your prayers...