Panic in Southern Africa...

September 26, 2006 1:01 PM Atlanta, 7:01 PM Cape Town

I had a heart attack this morning. First day at work, first day to meet the client, all this pressure and stress and I get out of the shower, turn on my hair dryer and it explodes. Seriously. It turned on really loud, the heating element went bright red and then it sparked and died.

I almost cried.

I ran around the flat yelling 'my hairdryer died! my hairdryer died' much to the confusion and concern of my roommate Judy, who is a lovely, low maintenance woman who doesn't use a hairdryer.

I hit the reset button several times to no avail and finally was about to give up and just assume I'd be meeting the client looking like a wet cat when I heard a little 'click' from the heating element cooling down. I tried again (on the right voltage setting this time) and it worked.
OK, it's not a close up meeting with a lion but it was VERY STRESSFUL!

We got to work and of course, my Internet connection had not been set up as yet. Today is a public holiday in South Africa so there were not many people in the office. It was good because it was a fairly easy easing into the work week. Tomorrow, I am sure chaos will begin :)

That's really all I have for today. We haven't done much of anything. I did get to go work out at one of the local gyms this morning, which was nice. Oh, and this country is just so beautiful. It poured with rain last night and when I woke up, there was a waterfall outside. Seriously. A waterfall. I took pictures.

We're getting ready to go to dinner and it'll probably be an early night so I probably won't post again until tomorrow.

Ba!