Follicle Blues The Holi blue? Not quite gone from my hair. Getting there, though.
Thunderstorm! Delhi knows how to put on a show. Over the last several days, there have been at least three instances of dark clouds rolling in, lightning streaking across the sky, then sheets – sheets! – of rain pouring down. It’s awesome, unless you are caught in it. The walk from the gym back to the hotel building, I got soaked through. There have been lots of power blips. When the power goes out, I like to look out my window where I can see two 20-storey buildings across the quad. It’s fun to suddenly watch the power come back, the center lights of the stairwell blinking to life first.
Honey!I love honey, as many of you probably know (if you’ve seen the honey stash on my desk back home). After I scoped out my supermarket, I started systematically trying out all the different honey brands here (there are quite a few.) Just as I discovered my absolute favorite, the supermarket inexplicably stopped carrying it. They also started phasing out Tropicana 100% juice. Then the Nutella went. A conspiracy I’m sure. Not expecting much, I wandered down to the next big intersection in the opposite direction. To my surprise, I found an “Easy Day” supermarket that not only had 100% Tropicana and Nutella, but lots and lots of Hitkary Honey!
Yeah. I stocked up.
Taxi Fail? We have had some taxi issues… like them completely not showing up yesterday. Luckily, we work close and it is easy to catch an auto from outside our hotel. I’ve talked a lot with the owner this week. I think we’re settled. I guess we’ll find out.
Cable! I had been jealous of Chris and Peter because they told me tales of this new “cable box” they received that had non-fuzzy new channels! Here I’ve been making do with mostly-visible movies on WB. Their end of the building must have gotten the box first. I was not jealous, however, when they talked about all the little bugs coming up through the drain into their places, though. All things being equal, I’d rather have no TV than have bugs. (Or maybe Guido is having big bug feasts while I’m at work?) On the first of the month, the TV died completely, as apparently planned. Tonight, though, the cable box dude came. I have new channels and they are clear and crisp! The lack of TV gave me motivation to dig into the thick novel, Pillars of the Earth. So far, very good.
Leave a comment! And I have converted my blog to WordPress! You can leave a comment now! (Assuming I did it right… and that you are inclined to.)
Yay for comments! You should take a video of the lightening. 🙂
That’s funny you suggested that, I actually did take a movie at the time! I didn’t get a good lightening shot from my vantage point, but you do hear a good downpour. I will figure out how to post that…