gyrmination

I never think to write about this when I am actually sitting in front of a computer at an internet cafe … but I really, really, REALLY miss having and using my own computer. I remarked to Sophie a few days ago how strange it seems for this piece of (to locals) high tech, alien [...]

Ankit asleep.
Feels like we’ll have a hurricane today. Sudden overcast booming skies; the wind crashing surf. Papa Thakur chuckles as he gazes at the ominous clumps of cumulous. The lights and TV blink weakly; the unlatched door hinges as if possessed by spirits. The kids warm their hands by the wood stove, then press them [...]

There was a party of losers upstairs last night. At nine I entered my room. The irritating voice of one man speaking about 30 decibels too loudly into his cell phone filtered in. Around ten (I had already turned off the lights and was trying to sleep) sounds of raucous merriment boomed down from the [...]

These are the mass-emails I’ve sent out over the course of my travels 2004-2005.
Start with mass email 1.0

My friend,
Has it really been two months, sixty days, one thousand four hundred forty some-odd hours since I’ve last written?
One of those months has been spent in bed. Recovering from Hepatitis. A nasty liver bug I should have been immunized against, but wasn’t. It’s passed on through contaminated water, usually, and I succumbed mid-March. The [...]