Old Poll Results: here. New poll: in the right sidebar. Not much else to say about that.

For those who have been asking me for pics, I’ve posted pics on my new (still-somewhat-under-construction) photoblog. Comments are welcome. The best way to browse, I feel, is by category.

So, I just ended an email with the most bizarre (true) sentence: We’re running late for some kind of Sikh Festival bonfire harvest party next door so we’re ordering Maha-burgers and making do… Off I go! How many people get to end an email like that in their lifetimes. Yeah, this holiday is fun fun fun. ;)

I’ve been thinking about lessons learned in the last year, as I begin the new year. I’ve noted some of the lessons, as well as a list of low points and high points, in the extended entry. I can say simply that it was a good year and I learned a lot. As for the fine details, you’ll have to consult the extended entry by reading on…

But it’s pretty weird, the full results page anyway… Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Personality Test I don’t know about these personality tests. I think human beings are addicted to finding out how they appear to other people, and sometimes even filling out a quiz is a way of finding out how you really appear to yourself, out of context. But it seems weird to use an automated quiz to do this. It’s quite strange. Hm.

Well, during my pitiful convalescence here at Ritu and John’s house, I’ve passed a lot of time watching Bollywood movies. Khabi Khushi Khabi Gham, Nagina, and other movies the titles of which I forget. It’s very interesting for me to experience such an overwhelming flood of another culture’s imagination, values, ideals, and fears in one shot like that. Kind of addictive, too. I’m trying to piece together some rules to hold on to as I watch these films, of the sort that I hold on to (unconsciously, of course) when watching Hollywood movies… you know, the cop always needs to …

Well, I’ve completely all of truly-dippy’s quizzes over at quizilla. Truly-dippy put together some really nice ones, and I am impressed. Can you tell I’m not up to thinking much, right now? Just kind of lazing about. Will write more soon, though, once some novel work is done. Now, on the the quizzes. My first reaction… Yeah, right: France ?? Which Country Are You From ?? brought to you by Quizilla Waterfall ?? Which Natural Wonder Or Disaster Are You ?? brought to you by Quizilla This is probably not true: You are Sloth! Lazy huh ?? You’re a bit …

During the last week I’ve been mainly getting bedrest, watching Hindi movies with Ritu (Bollywood, Bollywood, Bollywood!) and reading. I read two graphic novels (one very dark Batman, and Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, which were very good. I’m almost finished Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling, which is also a good novel in many ways. The evenings have been nice, just relaxing and talking with Ritu and John, and Koko’s birthday yesterday was my first time for more than an hour in days (though now I’m healthy enough to almost be able to do it again), and quite eventuful. …