As I tried to decide how to start my "INDIA BLOG" which seemed so spiritual and important and needed an amazing first post to describe to all of you out there in cyber space how enlightened and intelligent this international experience is making me, I instead decided to enlighten all of YOU as to how I am realizing quickly that I am not a functional adult and that I have considered about 3 times now making one of those charts where you cross off the list the things you need to do before you go to sleep.
X-brush teeth! gold star!!
X-eat vegetables!
X-wash face
X-take shower! (but only every other day)
and then when i accomplish those things, maybe awarding myself an allowance or something.
because to be perfectly honest, cyberspace, i cannot do these things! i just watched 3 episodes of top chef while sitting atop my classy pink-camo sleeping bag (because I cannot find sheets in Udaipur for less than 500 rups and i can't bring myself to pay that, i just can't. all i really need is a pillowcase, but i don't think they sell those as singles and man, oh man, i think i'm going to have to get a tailor to sew me a pillowcase, i really think i'm going to). and i really need to take a shower. its been a longgggg timeeeee. but its cold! and the water is cold and its 1:10 in the morning and what i really want to do is watch another episode of top chef.
but i jogged today, yes i jogged. first time for everything right? and in india, its extra fun because you get to feel a little bit like james bond on the hunt or something as you dodge cow patties, cows, calves, bulls, and motorcycles. but i made the mistake of not wearing glasses. i counted on my contact lenses but they were dry as a doornail ( is that a phrase?) and i can't jog with my monster glasses, i just can't. (for those of you who know me - haha if you are reading this at all! - you know which ones i'm talking about) in udaipur, if you jog for exercise, people look behind you with a worried look in their eye to see what you are running from. and combining my goggles ( what a small indian boy called my spectacles), my topknot (nicknamed Sukadia Circle - which is a gigantic fountain - by my landlords), and my general umistakeable, western-european, thoroughly whitebread foreignness, all just seemed like too much.
so what i smartly decided to do is to go WITHOUT. my first time jogging in my life (at least it felt like it) , in India, and i decide to do it blind - almost literally. and it was fun! it was like a mystery game where you don't really know where you're going but you just follow lights and sounds. plus you can't see the looks people give you as you huff past them all red and sweaty and gross. i'm sure my jogging is not an attractive sight to behold.
so adding this mishap ( or FUN ADVENTURE?!) to my list of things i cannot do as a functional adult, i felt good when i had a victory today of actually making my first meal at my new apt and breaking away from my norm of the following food groups:
X-brush teeth! gold star!!
X-eat vegetables!
X-wash face
X-take shower! (but only every other day)
and then when i accomplish those things, maybe awarding myself an allowance or something.
because to be perfectly honest, cyberspace, i cannot do these things! i just watched 3 episodes of top chef while sitting atop my classy pink-camo sleeping bag (because I cannot find sheets in Udaipur for less than 500 rups and i can't bring myself to pay that, i just can't. all i really need is a pillowcase, but i don't think they sell those as singles and man, oh man, i think i'm going to have to get a tailor to sew me a pillowcase, i really think i'm going to). and i really need to take a shower. its been a longgggg timeeeee. but its cold! and the water is cold and its 1:10 in the morning and what i really want to do is watch another episode of top chef.
but i jogged today, yes i jogged. first time for everything right? and in india, its extra fun because you get to feel a little bit like james bond on the hunt or something as you dodge cow patties, cows, calves, bulls, and motorcycles. but i made the mistake of not wearing glasses. i counted on my contact lenses but they were dry as a doornail ( is that a phrase?) and i can't jog with my monster glasses, i just can't. (for those of you who know me - haha if you are reading this at all! - you know which ones i'm talking about) in udaipur, if you jog for exercise, people look behind you with a worried look in their eye to see what you are running from. and combining my goggles ( what a small indian boy called my spectacles), my topknot (nicknamed Sukadia Circle - which is a gigantic fountain - by my landlords), and my general umistakeable, western-european, thoroughly whitebread foreignness, all just seemed like too much.
so what i smartly decided to do is to go WITHOUT. my first time jogging in my life (at least it felt like it) , in India, and i decide to do it blind - almost literally. and it was fun! it was like a mystery game where you don't really know where you're going but you just follow lights and sounds. plus you can't see the looks people give you as you huff past them all red and sweaty and gross. i'm sure my jogging is not an attractive sight to behold.
so adding this mishap ( or FUN ADVENTURE?!) to my list of things i cannot do as a functional adult, i felt good when i had a victory today of actually making my first meal at my new apt and breaking away from my norm of the following food groups:
candy corns!
bananas!
CHAI
devashish and shivani finally helped me cook things with my pressure cooker and my sort of black market gas tank and we succeeded! food was cooked and eaten and it was good!
but now i'm trying to get off my ass and least floss my teeth because thats basically like brushing them right?
dear god.
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