Goings and Places and Kai!

[Kai]

I'm putting this here just because it doesn't feel "important" enough for the discussion forum. Merely an absence notification.

On Sunday I'll be getting on a plane and heading to southern India for a school trip. I'll be gone for two weeks. This notification is mainly for people who RP or (in Charles' case) write things with me. The rest of you will find some way to tough it out and survive the agony of two weeks without your beloved Kai.

I may be able to get online every now and again, as we all know computers are not an alien concept in India. Here's to hoping, but I figured in the interests of not dropping of the face of the planet I'd let people know where I am. I'll be back in the states on the 17th.

*salute* <p>-------------------------
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." -- Sandman "The Kindly Ones" </p>

[Capntastic]

Bring me back a small trinket of unimaginable power!

I need a centerpiece for my wizard tower.

[E Mouse]

Would Priam's penis do? <p><hr />

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">"Their rhetoric... You didn't put communists in his bed did you!" came Amber's indignant reply.

"Why not? All I had to do was open a gate to his bed and stick up a sign saying 'Hot virgin willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of international socialist fraternity.'"</span>

<span style="color:blue;font-size:xx-small;">Excaliburned:</span> <span style="font-size:xx-small;">Ah yes, I'm thinking of having the USS Bob be preserved outside the Arena as a monument of sorts</span></p>

[PriamNevhausten]

No, no. He said a small trinket. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[pd Rydia]

Thanks for the heads up. I've missed you on AIM for the last several whiles. <p><hr /><div style="text-align:center">dictionary.com | encyclopædia dramatica</div></p>

[KingOfDoma]

I am gonna miss you, Ashley! And dammit, this IS important enough for the Discussion! Have lots of fun, and don't forget the pepto for the ass-burning curry dishes! And be sure to get yourself a REAL sari! Purple! And... I want a wooden elephant. Yeah.

See you in two weeks!

[Kai]

Tomorrow morning in about 12 hours I'll be hopping back on a plane headed for London. From there Chicago, then Indy, then with Brian and one of his friends back to Ohio.

Updates when we aren't paying for cybercafe access. <p>-------------------------
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." -- Sandman "The Kindly Ones" </p>

[Kai]

Unfortunately, because we were delayed about half a day, I just got in last night. I called my work this morning to figure out what my work schedule is, since my boss told me that she probably wouldn't even schedule me this week.

I was supposed to work today at three.

I'm not going in until five, but I'm still kind of pissed. So... maybe you'll get actual updatey things, with pictures even, tomorrow. I work till eleven tonight, so I'll not be doing it now.

Toodles. Glad to be back. Sort of. *goes to shower for work* <p>-------------------------
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." -- Sandman "The Kindly Ones" </p>

[Kai]

Our studies in ayurveda are basically going to bore you, so I won't bother you with those. Our touristy stuff I can tell you later.

I can give you a fairly good representation of one crazy day in India.

We were on our way from Delhi to Agra in a rented A/C taxi. Dr. Bauman had been chatting with the driver in Hindi, because that way they rip you off less and are less inclined to drive you to places you don't want to go just to get a commission from some shopkeeper in case you buy something.

He passed a roadside rather-shady poll collector. It's hard to tell the government officials because they look just like local people who are simply pissed that a road was built and want to take your money to get back at The Man. He passed it, but thought better of it and went back after driving about half a mile down the road. We were left in the middle of a dusty road full of other vehicles.

Dr. Bauman turns around. "So, since it's been a while since the first time I was here, what are you guys really finding interesting now that you're here?"

"What's interesting?" was the general response. "What do you mean, have we seen anything interesting?"

Then, the circus began.

A woman approached the car with a handful of beaded necklaces. "Beads, madam. Madam. Madam. Hello." She tapped on the window. She called through the window. She clinked the beads against the glass window where they rattled and clattered and jingled. No amount of telling her no in English or Hindi would dissuade her.

A man walked by on the side of the road followed by two bears on leashes.

By this point we were laughing hysterically, far too involved in how rediculous this was to actually pay attention to how many rupees the necklace woman wanted.

A fakir arrived on the scene, fully arrayed in robes, turban and beard, coming from behind the car with monkeys trailing behind. One or more of them leapt up on our van, clinging to my window (Reread. MY WINDOW.) and gyrating violently in a distinctly sexual manner. We now had the beadwoman, two bears, and a humping monkey seven inches from my face. The laughter contined.

When the fakir noticed that we remained unenticed by his monkey, the animal disappeared. He crept up to my window and began stroking it muttering something about rupees. I looked up and we all collapsed in laughter again. Noticing we still hadn't opened our window and given him money, he raised up to the window a damn cobra. A cobra, people. As Dr. McGrath said, "If he thinks showing us the snake is the best way to get us to roll down the window he has really misjudged his audience!"

The tears flowed, the laughter continued. Still probably not the reaction he was hoping for, but he really didn't want to give up.

Then our driver came back to rescue us as a clown (yes, a clown, in full getup and a plastic clown mask) walked down the street away from us. I guess someone told him that the circus was over and the foreigners were on the move.

See anything interesting, Bauman?

Nah. Who are you kidding. *whistles generic circus theme and walks away with her hands in her pockets* <p>-------------------------
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." -- Sandman "The Kindly Ones" </p>

[Capntastic]

I can email you my address for that trinket whenever you want.