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I'm convinced that ruin usually presents itself in the guise of the negative trifecta.

Last week, after nearly three months of medicated sleep, my insomnia decided to rear its ugly little head again. I'm not sure if my brain decided to switch back onto hyper-vigilant mode because I was jetlagged after my trip to BC (I used to think that jetlag was a mental construct, but now I understand that being thousands of feet in the air does, indeed, throw the body off), because I'm nervous about my trip (I'll get nervous about anything, and traveling solo through 6 Spanish-speaking countries and one Portuguese-speaking country without a good grasp of either language IS worrisome), or because I'm cursed (the last five years of my life plus a rumoured family malediction going back to the Louisiana days), or WHAT. Now I'm popping anti-histamines and the occasional benzo alongside my Remeron.

Friday, I had a doctor's appointment to discuss this very problem (the sleep, not the curse) with my family GP. On my way into the clinic, I tripped going upstairs (that's right, UP stairs), and vaulted, left side down, onto concrete. And kinda skidded across the concrete. So embarrassing, especially since part of the reason I fell was due to my sort of checking out a cute girl getting out of a car just before I bounded up those stairs. Other than bruising my knee and scraping some skin off my wrist and nearly passing out while waiting for my appointment, all was okay.

I later told David that, since shit always comes in threes, something else was likely to go wrong. Insomnia, a fall and... a missed connection in El Salvador? LACA loses my bag? I decided that I would probably get sick before I leave for Guatemala.

And now my body is fighting some sort of cold virus. I had a going away party Saturday night and, before going to bed, felt a little somethin'-somethin' in my throat. I've been ingesting echinacea, vitamin c and oil of oregano ever since, and today I feel really tired, foggy brained, and my nose is a bit stuffed up. I hardly EVER get sick and I'm leaving in three days for my adventure and I'm SICK.