Day 24

Woke up feeling quite a bit better but not 100%. Luckily there is no training today so I relaxed in the bungalow. Something was telling me to eat something greasy and soak up the evil forces in my body. I was really craving Mickey D's or pizza and went to return Adam's dvds and found out they were just heading out for lunch and the beach. The guys had a good time at Tiger Bar last night and I got to see some of his pictures and wished I could've gone. Adam's friend Jason had just arrived from Australia and most everybody was still asleep so Adam, Jason, Lana and myself headed out. We had some lunch in Kata and I had a burger and it was decent but different. We took the coastal rode south to Nai Harn Beach and it was gorgeous and sunny. The waves were pretty big today. They were having the Phuket surfing contest in Kata this weekend but we didn't stop to watch. We rented some beach chairs and it was pretty nice just chilling out there after swimming. I still had the big mac itch so I headed to Tesco where they have a Mickey D's. It was pretty nasty and I couldn't eat it. In all fairness it was pretty much how I remembered them in America. I thought maybe some ice cream would help my stomach if I fell ill again so I headed to the freezer. I was browsing through the flavors and I saw corn flavor. This shook my ice cream belief systrem to the core. Maybe I was still ill or maybe it was having my dessert foundation destroyed, but I felt dizzy and sick and left.

I was chilling in the bungalow and Gary and Ric stopped by. A couple minutes late Maddox and Gaz too. Maddox was waiting on his cab to take him to his flight to take him to the French Foreign Legion. They took off and I went to loan Adam a Tsunami dvd he wanted. I talked to Jason, from L.A. who had the same symptoms as me yesterday. He was also craving Mickey Ds and pizza but I told him I felt worse after my Big Mac.

Theres been a strange coincidence of the music I'm listening to popping up in the movies I watched while bed ridden. "Invincible" and "My Super Ex Girlfriend" both had covers of The Velvet Underground & Nico's "These Days". The Old 97s were featured prominently in "The Breakup" and they opened up their concert with "TimeBomb" which I've been somewhat obssessing over. Also "The Beach" had a reggae version of "Police and Thieves" which at first I thought was a cover but was probably the original.