Trouble dey sleep, iyanga go wake am

I thought that I knew the meaning of DISTRAUGHT until I really had cause to be distraught. Chei! It hasn't been easy. I've been cutting my teeth on this examination questions stuff for a while now; typing out questions for the internal examinations of schools in Aba for the first time. I didn't have many projects - just a few schools. But my computer developed cold feet in working with me and I brought somebody to fix it, which I chronicled in my last post here. In my paranoia, I moved my files to a flash drive hoping to work on the go. Alas! It happened that one night as I was alighting from my Keke Napep ride, it was late in the night, I opened my bag to pay the fare only to drop the flash drive. Hmm...I went home to start looking for it. When I returned to find it lying on the ground in the cold and wet mud, the drive wouldn't work again. All my work in graduate school gone with the wind. Of course, I was more vexed by the over 130 page examination questions that I had typed and with the deadline looming.

Long story, short - I now leave the word distraught alone. Because until one is really fraught with difficulty one wouldn't really appreciate its meaning. I'm done with this particular project, I brought in help to assist but the deadline was moved for me. My grief. It has been one hell of an experience adjusting to the way things work in this country, Nigeria. The power grid is of course the most difficult aspect of our job as it's power dependent. Imagine what this nation of ours will become if the national power authorities worked. We would surely be on our way to being developed. That's it, every year third class, third world country. I took full responsibility for what happened; but I just wonder if one can really survive this country of many missed opportunities owing to power failure. I hadn't been here awhile before it occurred to me that I had to hit the "SAVE" button to continue the entry another time, if EEDC hit again. So far, so good! I think I will end up posting this entry today. I'm learning to leave trouble alone. My UPS is warning me. You got it! EEDC has struck yet again! I love you!