In Manhattan getting jabbed with needles

Typhoid and polio in my left deltoid, hepatitis A and B in my right. Two neat bandaids on each shoulder.

That's all the vaccinations I'll need unless I plan to seek out rabies (by playing with stray dogs) or fecal matter (by eating street food... delightful!). I promised the doctor that I'd avoid the first and be cautious of the second, and she declared me fully vaccinated.

Other health precautions I'm taking are a steripen to kill giardia in the water, hand sanitiser to kill the common cold in the subway and a lot of insect repellent to, I hope, kill everything else everywhere else. I'll probably take a mosquito net for the sake of more pleasant sleep, but I'm not going anywhere with malaria.

47 days. Visa applications this weekend.