Chad's Place

Chad's Apartment is roughly 500,000 square miles in size

Over a year has passed since I have posted an untruth on Toxic Chestnuts. I would like to say that my absence was due to some preposterous life-changing event, but I have not invaded the 8th dimension, I have not cross-bred llamas with lions to terrorize the mountains of Peru, and I have not become a half-reptile privateer off the coast of Spain. No, my absence was caused by a mundane choice I made during my senior year of college, which was followed by a mundane 11months in Chad.

Chad has often been the brunt of bad jokes among the better informed, probably because a large number of Americans believe that Africa is a sort of mega country tended by music and movie stars. Many people asked me if I was going to stay with my friend Chad for awhile. Upon my return they were surprised that I managed to catch malaria and typhoid while staying in his apartment. Perhaps they thought he bred tiger mosquitoes and kept a culture of typhoid in his bathtub.