So Apparently I'm the President of Rwanda...

...or that's what the Ugandans think. Well... a couple of the guards here do. And... they just think that I might look like him... if I got a little sun... and wore glasses. I could pull it off, don't you think?

Well, maybe not, but that's as interesting as things get out here in the desert.

It hasn't gotten hot yet, but it is starting to warm up during the day. Fortunately, I don't wake up until the afternoon so I don't have to feel the heat for very long.

I went to the Easter Sunrise Service a while back. It was the first time that I've been to "church" since I got here. It was okay. It wasn't inspiring or moving, but it was also neither as pedantic nor insipid as I had expected. i have not been back since. I just cannot get over the feeling of mache that I get from the military chaplaincy. Beurocracy doesn't seem to be a valid excuse for fettering the gospel. All of the chaplains that I've ever encountered have oozed "Chicken Soup for the Soul." They were all quaint, useless, and entirely tame.

Mmm, time for another cup of coffee.

Speaking of which, it's almost time for chow, too. Well, I'll give it another couple of hours. I'll be very glad to eat real food again one day. The food here isn't terrible, but none of it is great either. Didn't God say something about "You are neither hot nor cold so I will vomit you out of my mouth!" It's something like that.

Helen is doing well, as always. I'm afraid that she doesn't realize how truly amazing she is. Not only has she managed to keep her grades in the stratosphere (or something high like that), but she has also managed to regularly lift my spirits. She has been so dedicated to writing me an email every single morning before she leaves for class. Her emails are never simple or trite, either. She always manages to make me feel like I am both the greatest husband in the world, and the luckiest man in history. I love her quite desperately.

But I digress. Helen is, as I said, doing well. She is coming up on finals and has applied for a couple of summer internships that I hope will keep her from pining for me too much. She has only one semester of college left, so I will be able to glean her knowledge of the scholastic system when I finally start schooling at a real university.

My scholastic aspirations have been temporarily thwarted. The network here is too slow and unreliable for me to do any internet courses. So, I've asked my advisors if I'm too far out for correspondence courses or if there is some other means of preparing for a Master's Degree program. CLEPS are just a bad idea for someone who not only wants a MS, but who has also never studied anything a day in his life. It would be bad to start my Junior year at a real college and never have had any experience with real school (high school didn't count; I never studied there either).

Anyhow, that's the world of Me for now. I know that I've promised to post more frequently, but I don't think that was a reasonable campaign promise for me to have made.

More later...