feeling drained
16 Sep 06 - Letter from Madurai 1
wow, i'm pooped. it's 5:30 on saturday and i'm in the office. i have no idea when i'll get to leave. I have no specific assignments yet as such, but people keep telling me i have to be here and there, without giving me much notice. this office hardly stops. it must work three times as hard as any other office in india. so, good professionally, pitiful for my personal life.
fortunately (or unfortunately), there doesn't seem to be much to do in this town. I went out to the rooftop restaurant of the fancy hotel last night. I spent rs140 on a full meal that was way too spicy for no reason at all and then spent the night in the bathroom. the place felt vacant at 10pm on friday night. bodes poorly. but perhaps i just need to search out madurai's underground music scene ;)
some big important sikh guy (i just love sikhs, btw! they always just look so darn cool) from the national human rights commission in delhi just arrived at the office. Everytime these "important people" show up, the entire office go downstairs and assemble while they are presented. (it happened for me, too, although my arrival coincided with the arrival of an important donor).
of course, while im not exaggerating per se, i am bitching. apologies, ive been feeling rather bitchy today. Is amusing how, when things start to get annoying, everything becomes annoying. like how they delivered my 2nd hand refrigerator yesterday, but it didn't work. then this kid spend an hour fiddling with it and it still didn't work. finally the power in my flat cut out and the kid split (i have my suspicions that the kid did something to kill the power). later another repair person came but the power was still out so he couldnt do anything. neither could i, so i just went back to work. oh, and i was cohabitating with a gigantic cockroach and a whole mess of ants. But then i killed the cockroach late last night when i found him in my bathroom (he failed to respect my personal space). I need to go buy some ant spray this evening.
ok, what's the bright side? they delivered my refrigerator on the back of a bicycle. if only i'd had a camera. madurai actually seems pretty cool in its own way--it really is a temple town--the market area is built around this crazy temple complex, which i think is pretty neat--of course i cant say for sure, since i haven't had a chance to visit it yet. hopefully tomorrow.
what else? i have a bicylcle, which rocks--i love bicycles, and hopefully it will help me gt some excercise. as long as i don't end up as roadkill.
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just had to run off b/c the important sikh just spoke to everybody to say "hi" and "bye" and "i have other more important places to be but i just wanted to say keep up the good work, we all really care a lot about good governance a lot, we do, it's true" and then dodged three questions. my wo co-workers are going off right now about how full of shit he was.
wow, i'm pooped. it's 5:30 on saturday and i'm in the office. i have no idea when i'll get to leave. I have no specific assignments yet as such, but people keep telling me i have to be here and there, without giving me much notice. this office hardly stops. it must work three times as hard as any other office in india. so, good professionally, pitiful for my personal life.
fortunately (or unfortunately), there doesn't seem to be much to do in this town. I went out to the rooftop restaurant of the fancy hotel last night. I spent rs140 on a full meal that was way too spicy for no reason at all and then spent the night in the bathroom. the place felt vacant at 10pm on friday night. bodes poorly. but perhaps i just need to search out madurai's underground music scene ;)
some big important sikh guy (i just love sikhs, btw! they always just look so darn cool) from the national human rights commission in delhi just arrived at the office. Everytime these "important people" show up, the entire office go downstairs and assemble while they are presented. (it happened for me, too, although my arrival coincided with the arrival of an important donor).
of course, while im not exaggerating per se, i am bitching. apologies, ive been feeling rather bitchy today. Is amusing how, when things start to get annoying, everything becomes annoying. like how they delivered my 2nd hand refrigerator yesterday, but it didn't work. then this kid spend an hour fiddling with it and it still didn't work. finally the power in my flat cut out and the kid split (i have my suspicions that the kid did something to kill the power). later another repair person came but the power was still out so he couldnt do anything. neither could i, so i just went back to work. oh, and i was cohabitating with a gigantic cockroach and a whole mess of ants. But then i killed the cockroach late last night when i found him in my bathroom (he failed to respect my personal space). I need to go buy some ant spray this evening.
ok, what's the bright side? they delivered my refrigerator on the back of a bicycle. if only i'd had a camera. madurai actually seems pretty cool in its own way--it really is a temple town--the market area is built around this crazy temple complex, which i think is pretty neat--of course i cant say for sure, since i haven't had a chance to visit it yet. hopefully tomorrow.
what else? i have a bicylcle, which rocks--i love bicycles, and hopefully it will help me gt some excercise. as long as i don't end up as roadkill.
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just had to run off b/c the important sikh just spoke to everybody to say "hi" and "bye" and "i have other more important places to be but i just wanted to say keep up the good work, we all really care a lot about good governance a lot, we do, it's true" and then dodged three questions. my wo co-workers are going off right now about how full of shit he was.
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