I’m working on a summary of the trip so far, but I’ve been pretty busy so I am gonna try finish that tomorrow, and maybe post some pics if there is time… … but for now… Well, now that I’ve been in India for a week, it’s begun: emails from students asking me to fix their grades, check again to see if they really deserved an F, etc. Most of them are quite pitiful, but two were understandable. One was an honest mistake by myself, where I failed a guy who went to military and with whom I’d made an …
Month: December 2003
Christmas
This week’s Friday Five is a free-throw about Christmas! So I’m going to do my best to say five interesting things about that holiday in the next few paragraphs. Your first Christmas alone can be hell. Mine was. A cheap bottle of Japanese heated periodically through the day, and a lot of long-distance calls, made up my remedy. Really, this is one time that nobody should have to spend alone, and yet, somehow, I think everyone should have this experience once in his or her life, just the same. Christmas all year round is a crazy idea. Really, it is. …
Islamic Onion
This is kind of a Muslim version of The Onion. Heh. For those of you who don’t know The Onion, what rathole have you been living in? Go see The Onion too.
I am having fun!
Yes, I am. Showing John how I post… :)
Jacko X?
Okay, what? This is just toooooooo weird. I wonder sometimes how one is supposed to write SF anymore, given how bizarre the real world is. But don’t get me started on Bushie, I won’t stop…
The Word From Gurgaon
Well, finally I am updating with something more substantial than a Friday Five… not that F5 is insubstantial, of course, but… Anyway, for those who are wondering, I’m here in Gurgaon (near Delhi) at Ritu’s house. I’m well and happy to wish a Merry Christmas to all those who happen to read this sometime in the next few days. Now… for those of you wondering what has happened during my trip so far…
Life Lessons
This week’s Friday Five Question is answered a little late. I’ve been traveling, you see. More about that in a bit… the question, which requires a good bit of thinking to actually answer for it is quite difficult for me to put into only five points, or say clearly, comes to us courtesy of my very gracious and wonderful current host, Ritu: Everybody lives through certain moments in their lives when things go ‘click’ and ideas take a living, breathing shape. Concepts and thoughts which were only words until that moment now become an intrinsic part of one’s internal landscape, …
More Self-Definition
Yes, that’s right, it’s time to use facetious quizzes to define myself in random and unexpected ways… What Kind of Cookie Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
One Night in Bangkok
Yes, really. I missed my flight on Thursday, and ended up having to fly to Bangkok and spend a night here, though I didn’t know at the time how long I would actually be. I was nervous until I checked my bookings online, and found someone had already made reservations for my make-up flight… the website said I would go to Delhi either on Saturday or Sunday. So I got a room at the Royal Hotel and wandered around Khoa San Road. Somewhere along the way I ran into a nice East German girl who’d been on the shuttle bus …
Off I Go…
Writing this with a beautiful Sigur Ros song in my ears: Svefn-G-Englar. Wish I had time to add it to my Listen To… section. The singer keeps on saying, “It’s you—ouu……” and it feels the way I feel right now. Things moving fast, and I’m a small human watching the world spin. And in a few hours, I’ll peel away from the surface, look down in flight at this place where I live, where so many people I care about are… but I’ll be back on the ground sometime tomorrow. I spent a lot of the morning running around getting …