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[You’re thinking straight, it used to be in 7 parts. Part 7 will be postponed indefinitely.]
Kind of an off day. I woke up with a fever. I’m no doctor but I
think it’s because I barely slept the night before. I had the ‘itis. Possibly from anything I ate. Pig, duck, anything.
I ignored it so I tossed and turned all night. Today I dropped
so many deuces they’d call it a twenty.
Mostly just traveling today. We took Marcos highway. His face was
removed from the hillside a few years back. Apparently he wasn’t
really that cool a guy, but it makes me sad because the stone carving is
one of the things I remember from when I visited as a kid.
McDonald’s here is nice. Clean bathroom. Which was sort of a godsend
today. The chicken seems popular. The McDo isn’t as good as I
remember it being. At all. Sarsi tastes like menthol. And there’s an
Asia-exclusive sandwich called the McRice. The buns are tightly
packed seasoned rice rather than bread. Pretty much tastes how you’d
imagine, meaning ground beef with rice.
Got home and, yah, it’s hot in Pampanga. And really humid. Really really humid. My dad
just slept and kept taking showers the entire afternoon. After you step out of the shower it feels like you’re covered in sweat. Because you are. I went on a
date with the air conditioner. We watched The Aviator. I saw some
kids playing basketball on the court next door. It’s no exaggeration
when people say kids play in tsinelas. Only three had shoes on.
They love finger rolls, but everyone’s really quick. That was mostly it. Like I said, kind of an off day.