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Mustard and chilli sauce. -And no hotdogs. Hot spices and condiments. This kind of food can be a sign of depression. People need the kick it gives them to feel alive. === Perhaps the wasps function as a vector. Like mosquitoes and malaria, deer tick and Lyme's disease, sand fly and Oncochersiasis. -Oncochersiasis? A sandfly gouges a wound in the victims flesh in order to feed the parasitic roundworm forces its way out of the sandfly's head into the victim's blood. Result river blindness. === You might think I'm not smiling at these occasional witticisms because I'm humourless. You might think that, Natalie, but you'd be wrong. I'm not smiling much at all these days because everything about this place has me shitting my pants in expectation of some hurtling environmental catastrophe. === Bears don't come into town here unless they're starving. Really desperate. Certainly not in daylight. And even if they are crazy with hunger, they don't enter buildings.