Lazy days

Testing, testing-

This is the first blog post. My leave of absence from work began on Friday! I'm still in Durham, sitting around on my lazy butt and threatening to begin making 'to do' lists for the big trip. Ruth is busy typing away at her desk, preparing her thesis proposal while Georgia sleeps on the top of her computer. This is the last tie that connects us to Duke. Once she presents this to her department we begin packing and preparing in earnest. First, we'll need plane tickets then we'll have to purchase rain gear, a first aid kit and other odds and ends. Then we store our massive amount of useless 'stuff' and we're off! We expect to depart by the end of February.
OK, maybe it's too presumptuous to be calling myself junglejack already. But this is a blog about Africa and what we'll see there and how it's going to affect us. We'll be spending a lot of our time in the forest watching monkeys mate and slapping away mosquitoes and army ants, so I am taking the liberty of assuming that by some point during our stay we'll be jungle-y.
During the late morning hours of my sleep, I sort of half dreamed and half thought about the idea of bringing our movie projector, a white sheet and laptop/speakers along with us so that we might be able to show movies to the locals. We purchased a 1 terabyte external hard drive for 100 bucks yesterday, which can hold almost 250 full length movies. Using this simple set-up we could create a portable movie theater which we could set up wherever there is electricity. It sounds at first like a great plan, but I need to think more about it. Perhaps it's not so cool to be exporting Hollywood culture to a place where the average income is about 2 dollars a day. Plus, once you set yourself up as a movie promoter, there's probably no going back.
Final test! Here's a picture of Ruth during the recent snowfall (BA- 1month)-