Hey folks!

Just a quick one this time.  I've moved again!  This time into long-term accommodation in the neighbourhood of Church Hill (East End of Richmond, Va.) and renting from a woman called Sabrina.  

She is a native of Alabama and working in the information & technology industry, studying for her Phd. Although, under-furnished, I've got a great deal.  Only $500 a month (utilities inc.) with a queen bed and en-suite bathroom.  Also, English breakfast tea is an anomaly in the U.S.; Americans tend to drink and serve sweet-tea.  Now that I have a kettle in the house, all my homesickness fears have dissipated.  There's nothing better that having good brew in the morning to ease your mind and quell your anxieties.  The house is within walking distance of Downtown, but several bus-stops are easily accessible from where I'm living.  It was a great snare, as I was becoming quite desperate to find such accommodation.  The same weekend I spoke to an Englishwoman called Amanda, who willing to have a tenant, lived fifty minutes away from the closest bus stop.  Her place did look fantastic and I almost said yes, even with this inconvenience, but everything worked out more perfect than I had hoped when Sabrina responded to my craigslist post.

My mates will be pleased that I spent my first night with a lady called Jordan.  Being a slutty Ho, she does move on from person to person very easily - especially if you give her the attention she desires. Her human characteristics however, are lacking.  She has ten teats, hair all over her body, a wagging tail, and walks on all fours.  If you think about it, from a human perspective, only one of them is definitively, not human.  

I mentioned in the first email, that the temperature here was hot.  It has now cooled considerably, but humidity and mugginess is still an issue.  Last week we had thunder and lightening, and although we get it in the UK, I've never seen or heard a storm like they get here.  It was also right over the city.  There was a sudden flash, with its cracking sound, and then an instantaneous roar and rumbling noise from the Thunder overhead.  Of course it was accompanied with lashings of rain.  I don't know why, but whenever it's rainy and windy, a primitive childish instinct overlays all my fears - as if I'm safe from the whole world that's lurking outside, when I'm inside.  I got that feeling when the thunder and lightening struck.  

Staying with the weather, you news hounds must be aware of the imminent danger that Hurricane Matthew poses to Florida, East Georgia, coastal South and North Carolina.  It looks like the hurricane is going to move back out over the ocean before it reaches Virginia but apparently, we'll get the residue of its rain and wind.  I am going to be away this weekend, but never experiencing extreme weather is going to be a disappointment.  People may think that I'm undermining the danger such a phenomenon would bring to those living it is path, especially the destruction and havoc the hurricane has brought to the people of Haiti.  But extreme weather, like extreme sports, like extreme drugs and like extreme politics is an experience that shouldn't be missed.   

I got it into my head, once I knew that Kyt was coming to the United States, that I was going to have a road-trip to Chicago.  Unfortunately, I have bailed on that notion, and decided to take the greyhound bus to the windy city instead.  I leave Saturday morning at 8:20, travel up to Washington D.C., Maryland, Pennsylviannia, Ohio, Indian and then arrive in Chicago Sunday at 4:55, just in time to watch Kyt race.  I'll then spend a few days with clan Lau before heading back.  Once back in Richmond on Wednesday, I'll let everyone know what we got up to, and hopefully, Mr Lau, will also contribute to the blog. 

Hurricane Kenny.