Scratching myself to sleep

So today after dinner I spent my time pulling ticks out of my legs. That was fun. Most of them are dark brown or black and relatively easy to see but some of them are really really tiny and close to the colour of the human skin and those are almost impossible to spot before the area around their bite becomes somewhat inflamed.

My host's wife asked me to throw the ticks I pulled out into the grass outside and not kill them, most of them were probably alive after I pulled them out. She told me that there were billions of them here at this time of the year anyway so killing this dozen of those little guys was not going to help with not getting them in the future anyway and it would be pointless to kill them. Instead, they just would educate me how no to get them in the future. Ok, I saw her point and I did release those little bastards back into their natural habitat. I did not feed them but I did not kill them either.

The locals apparently do not get them because they know where to walk and where not to walk (the lower road from the northern side of the forest, etc) and at what time (like just before sunset, after the rain, etc). We have now sat through the lecture on how to avoid getting them here in the future too. I was told that almost all of them here are harmless, particularly if you pull them out within the first 36 hours after getting them.

Now every 5 minutes I get itchy somewhere I cannot see, like the back of my neck and get convinced that I can definitely feel a tick there and I keep asking everyone to check if it is indeed there. It never is.

Donald Trump vs China

While Donald Trump pumps out tough rhetoric towards China, the Chinese are already in full swing making money on Trump.





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Bunga Bunga

I had a meeting with the vice mayor of the neighbouring village today. The guy was wearing a t-shirt with "I Love Bunga Bunga" on it. On my way back I saw a guy in his late fifties repairing a tractor in the field with "I wish I could ctrl alt del my boyfriend" on his t-shirt.

I think they get these t-shirts from second hand shops, which get their stock from somewhere in the EU and have no idea about the meaning of what is written on them.

"These are very well educated [buyers], they’ve visited museums.”

I spend a lot of my time in Asia and have met quite a few fu er dai turned "modern art collectors". The ones I met were a very sad sight. And the feeding frenzy around them was very often nauseating.

I have always thought Olafur Eliasson was Danish / Icelandic (born in Copenhagen to Icelandic parents) not Swedish as BBC states. I still remember his sun installation at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, it was awesome.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160527-children-of-the-chinese-super-rich-arent-all-burning-money

Use of technology by different Amish affiliations

Whenever I have to do something to a close deadline I develop an unstoppable fascination with something completely random and unrelated to what I have to do or any of my existing interests. And I become so much into that stuff that I cannot do anything else until the deadline is so close that to meet the deadline I have to work non-stop up to the very last minute to the deadline. And while I am working I suffer so much because I want to do that other thing so badly. As soon as the deadline passes and I am free to do whatever I want I never come back to that other thing I was so much into. I don't even get then why I was so interested in that thing before.

So I am on the below now and it is the most interesting and important thing in the world to me at the moment. I have no idea how I lived up to this day without digging into this:

Use of technology by different Amish affiliations