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Today's plan is to go shopping in Delhi so I can buy a lot of little small stuff to give away to people. I'm fully aware of the fact that everyone is expecting presents because it should be easy to find such things cheaply. All I have so far is a new set of silverware for myself and a crapload of glass pens which you already know about.

Yesterday was an extremely busy day at work. The team I've been training did their first calls today, which meant I had a stack of five people at any given time wanting to ask me a question. They ordered pizza and it was in the room with us, but the lead didn't want to stop until everyone finished their calls. I kept answering questions until I finally couldn't take any more and left the room for a break, and had to actually yell "BREAK BREAK BREAK" on my way out because so many people were trying to get one last question in.

Once I was outside, I called in and said I refused to answer another question until we stopped to eat. This was five hours into the day so I didn't feel it was unreasonable.

The whole thing's bittersweet, of course. I'm proud of what I've accomplished here but didn't know that a lot of people back home would be getting screwed in the process. In the end, I'm pretty sure everyone will be happier anyway, but that doesn't make the situation suck any less.

One more half-day of work and then I begin the journey home. It really feels like it's been more like three months.

If you think this is NSFW you're way too uptight.

Taj Mahal

Picture 007, originally uploaded by christopher575.

I went again today. I've grown to an enormous size so it was easier to get to this time. INIK-CHOCK!

Oh DAMMIT

They are playing the "Seven Little Superheroes" episode of Spiderman and his Amazing Friends. But it's in HINDI ARRRRGGGGHHH. I'm gonna watch it anyway because the part where Iceman's ice melts because he's being held captive over a volcano gave me a special feeling down there when I was a kid.

Huh, Firestar has the invitation to the island in her hand, but it's not catching on fire. Iceman can just leave his trails of ice all over the city and nobody cares. People die in Chicago because of falling icicles.

The dude who wants to kill them burned little statues of them, but burning a statue of Firestar is pretty stupid. Take THAT! 

Oh, here's another superhero in just briefs. Needs chest hair.

Oooh, the bad guy just referred to Captain America as "superhero, superfool"! I'd say Captain America better find him and whip his ass, but what the hell powers does Captain America have, anyway? The power to never forget? Is he still dead, by the way? I kinda hope so.

Firestar has nice hair.

Ok, I just missed some of it because I had to fix a drink and dish out my chinese delivery food. For some reason, Aunt May's dog is on the island with them. Did anyone see the Aunt May comic where she was a super hero all covered in gold?

They keep using a modified version of the "bionic" sound. I wish someone would do some magic so I could hear that "beeowr, doogeldy-doooooooo" sound that always meant magic on every cartoon I ever saw.

Damn, Firestar just got all wet. Put out her fire and stone cold messed up her hair. That's just wrong.

OK, commercial time. Unrelated to the show: today I saw a poster in a food court for Conizza, which is a pizza shaped like an ice cream cone. They are also running tons of ads for Domino's Chinese Pizza. Looks, hm, interesting. The best looking food I've seen on a commercial was just now, but it was for some detergent with Oxy-Clean and is not a real restaurant. Crap.

One of the seven superheroes is some chick in a leopard bikini. I have no idea who she is but I think she's in on the plot to kill the other six. A big red robot just ate Dr. Strange and she didn't seem sad at all. Hm, she just fell into lava. That's gotta hurt.

Iceman just got captured and is in a cage next to Firestar. Each one's power is trying to kill the other. How clever! Iceman won and just found her in his ice. The guilt, it must be terrible. 

Spiderman is about to get eaten by a giant spider. How meta.

Damn, chinese food in India is spicy. Even the stuff without the little chile logo next to it on the menu. Hooooo.

Aw crap, I think maybe the "naked Iceman" episode might be a different one because this seems to be wrapping up. I had my camera ready and everything. I used to be obsessed with this show. I always wanted to be Iceman so bad. I still think that, among all the superheroes, his power is one of the coolest. No pun intended.

PHO

I have been craving vietnamese food (and beef in general) since I got here. I just stumbled upon a feature about pho on some travel channel. This is like porn for me.

It is going to be a long time before I'll want pizza when I get back, because almost all I've had here other than Indian is pizza and chinese. Pizza, chinese. Chinese and then some pizza. Man, the pho on the screen looks so good. They're making it on the street and it looks so good.

Ok, it's over, and I feel a little dead inside. I need pho, bun, spring rolls, banh mi, and cafe sua da something fierce. 

How I can tell I've been on the Internet too long

1) The first email I ever sent was about River Phoenix's untimely death.
2) I used to connect using a VT101
3) This picture was loading slowly and I could only see the very tippy-top, but immediately thought, oh, the frog in the bag.