Life is a zero sum game

I've always said that life is a zero sum game - for everything that is a positive, there must somewhere be a corresponding negative. Well, I have been having such a good time here that it was inevitable that something would come along to spoil the party.

That something has a two word name: bad mayonnaise.

I went out on the town Sunday night with Tatiana, Marcus, and Illeni, and found an Irish pub in downtown floripa...well, at least a reasonable Brazilian interpretation of one.....

A while later, we were hanging at a sidewalk nitespot on the main drag of the Beira Mar area (a condo and hotel-filled of Centro Florianopolis, right on the water).

Beira Mar

At some point, I started to feel sick to my stomach, and ended up spray-coating the inside of the bar toilet with my dinner. That's right, folks: food poisoning. Yay.

Tatiana dragged me home, and I spent the rest of the night and next morning forcibly expelling fluids from my body. I think we have all been there at some point in our lives, so no details need be provided. 

Anyway, I passed monday drinking Gatorade in a semi-feverish daze. It is now Tuesday morning, and although I feel like a soccer team practiced their goal-kicking on my stomach and lower back, I am bouncing back pretty well, and I think I'm going to get in the car and cruise the island today. Lots of beaches to see! I only have three more days left here, so I gotta get while the getting is good.

Thanks for taking care of my sorry ass, Tati!

 Tatiana, shortly before the night took a nasty turn.