It is day 25. They are still driving me nuts.

I drank two beers yesterday at 9 am. Red Stripe to be specific. It helped me edit the chapters of my upcoming book Love is Bananas. Buy one in December so I can buy more Red Stripe beer.

My favorite thing about Jamaica is the patties. No, scratch that, is the sky. It is beautiful.

The worst part of writing a book is writing a book. It is torture. Deciding whether a sentence, paragraph, or the entire concept is worth a shit scrambles my brain and flames the impostor syndrome. Hell, I can’t even spell.

How do you teach an adult how to have fun if they don’t know how?
What are goals? If you had to describe them to an alien, how would you explain goals?
Is it wrong to send nudes?

Oh yeah, sorry, I got distracted. The mosquitos are driving me nuts. I spray my feet and ankles with Off spray every morning. I always wear long pants and a long sleeve shirt. They are inside the house, outside the house, and inside my dreams. Not a ton of them, just one or two. I watch them buzz around, landing on everything to determine if it is food. I am food. A year ago today I had Malaria. A fat bastard mosquito in Somalia gave it to me. The good news is I killed it. The bad news was that it was feasting on me for a half hour before I killed it. The malaria lasted for 10 days as I traveled through Angola, Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan, and Libya. What a disaster. I should have taken the pills. Always take the pills.

Living in Jamaica for the month has been interesting. There is a mandatory curfew at 8 pm across the island. They do not allow tourists to leave the all-inclusives. Jamaicans are struggling. The mosquitos are thriving.

“Don’t get caught on the streets at 8:01!” Andy said. Andy is Jamaican and has smoked weed since he was 9 years old. He is now 39 and hates Doritos. He is in shape and missing two front teeth. He taught me how to roast breadfruit.

I am grateful there is no malaria in Jamaica. I am also grateful that these fat ass mosquitos are not carrying Zika virus, West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, dengue, of malaria. I think.

However, I found this on Google (Google is a website):

Here are 12 ways you can get an STI without having sex. 1. Mosquito bites. Zika — the mosquito-borne disease that impacts fetal brain development — has been shown to be sexually transmitted (making it the only known vector disease that can be transmitted sexually and via mosquitos).

As my friend text me this morning, I loathe mosquitos.

I am excited to get back to Atlanta and launch into Quarter 4 of 2020, the year unlike any other year! Let’s figure it out. The next move. The next dream. The next adventure. Oh, and it is going to be fall season, which means cooler weather, haunted houses, and NO F*CKING MOSQUITOS!

Let’s have some fun!

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Jamaica: Day 25