immune failure

things that are good: hawaii! food! clean clothes!

however, i have had a cold the entire time that i've been here. crap.
and i got my period over the weekend, which knocked me out for a couple of days.
then i got a really bad sunburn on my back and was in pain every time i moved my torso for a good several days.
then, this morning i awoke to sharp pains in my stomach and, in general, feeling like hell.

(may i say this?) not fair.

today is my first day alone. i plan on walking a couple of miles up to the surfing area and collapsing in to the sand.

worried that i might have tetanus? or staph? or, as one girls called it, "the hiv?"

yesterday we learned that carmen and missi as a pair cannot hike eight miles in six hours.