This. I tried (and failed) to build an export business out of Uganda. I am sure that somehow, somewhere somebody will make a fortune - but it wont be easy.

Happened to my fiancé(wife) and I flying to our own wedding.

We did the same thing when we lived in Uganda. Most westerners staying in the country for more than a few months stop taking anti-malarials.

However most places where the expats live have access to antibiotics and to at least 1 or 2 Western (usually British) Doctors/Nurses.

It really depends on your appetite for risk. One of my colleagues has been taking Lariam for about 25 years, and I usually carry two weeks-worth of extra Malarone doses when I travel (might switch to Lariam for my next trip).

If you've not taken it before, be extremely careful with Lariam, it has been well-established to cause numerous kinds of really unpleasant psychological side-effects in some people. Even got an FDA Black Box warning for it[1] recently.

I have personal experience of taking it for ~4 months as directed and suffering from extremely vivid hallucinations and extreme insomnia. I also managed to contract Malaria whilst taking it, twice.

Anecdote, pinch of salt, etc. But do some research yourself, ask your doctor, and definitely think twice.

(The other nice thing about Malarone is that it's also good for treating an actual infection, as well as for prophylaxis, assuming wherever you're travelling isn't resistant to it. And it's just gone generic, in the UK at least, and also worldwide, I think?))

[1] http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm362227.htm

I am the same way. I also graduated from the University of Michigan which has a great sports program, so this is usually the ice breaker in interviews, meeting with clients etc.. when they see my resume. I usually bow out and change the subject quickly.

I enjoy talking politics as well, but in many ways is just as pointless and arbitrary..."my side of the aisle is better than yours". When your presidential candidate makes a goof he is an idiot, when mine does it he is misunderstood.

Discussing politics is not the same as discussing politicians. I enjoy the former, but the latter bores me to tears.

I agree. I'm fascinated by politics in a structural way -- ideologies, movements, narratives, red states vs blue states, liberalism vs conservatism, states' rights and federalism, etc.

But there are lot of people who don't seem to care about that at all, but rather follow politics like sports or soap operas -- which politician said what, how that affects their polling, etc.

There are two very different ways of being "into" politics.

They have a negative cash conversion cycle - Dell mastered this in the late 90's.

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