So, I still love Rob Thomas. Today while I had internet, I uploaded some of his songs from pre-Matchbox 20 days, and even then, he was just pretty awesome. Before Matchbox 20, he was in a band called Tabitha's Secret. That was back in 1993 when I was... well... three. They had a pretty bad breakup that resulted in some lawsuits, though. I like him better with Matchbox 20, anyway.

My computer has been behaving itself and charging lately. During the first day of the four day break, I got super frustrated with it... so I sat down and had a nice little chat with the inanimate object. I told it I was sorry for blaming it for all the charging problems because it can't help it. It isn't its fault that the current is so much stronger here and things like that. Since then, it has charged easily every single night. So the lesson to be learned: talking to inanimate objects does not make you crazy... and sometimes it's helpful. However, Toshi (the computer) does still exude superfluous energy constantly, and the battery doesn't last nearly as long as it normally does because the energy is seeping out his ears (literally through the earphone jacks).

Today, I finally remembered to bring home the Ganpati/Ganesh idol that I made at ACM. Coincidentally, today is the fourth day after the full moon. The fourth day after a full moon is a very auspicious day for Ganesh. My family was very excited at the timing. They insist it's fate. So, my Ganpati statue is currently residing at a newly-cleared place in their shrine. I was given a hibiscus flower and some kind of grass to offer to him.

It was kind of a day of coincidences, actually. Today, Emily had to go to work at her internship. Sometimes she comes back after interning, but she's usually back around four. I waited around til five at ACM, and then decide she wouldn't be back so I started my trek home. I shared a rickshaw for about a km with Kacie because we start out in the same direction. I got to close to the divergence of our paths, so I hopped out of the rickshaw so I could catch another one towards home. As soon as I got out of the rickshaw, I heard my name being called. I had just happened to stop right in front of the coffee shop Emily had stopped at with her fellow interns to get a snack.

I've started wearing my brown contacts. After Turkey, I got some brown contacts. Blue eyes are traditionally auspicious in some places, and mine are freakishly blue sometimes. I thought brown contacts would be good for making me stand out a little less. However, the fact that I'm white makes me stand out here before you even notice the blue eyes, so the brown contacts haven't been really necessary. However, I'm going through contacts pretty quickly because of all of the pollution, so I'm going to have to start wearing the brown ones more. Either way, when I was trying on contacts to find a good color, I had trouble because virtually nothing actually conceals the blue of my eyes. I tried honey, hazel, dark hazel, light brown, and brown. Everything kind of made my eyes look blue with a hint of ________. Then, I tried dark brown contacts, and they actually did a fairly good job of making my eyes a color other than blue. So those are the ones I got. Today, two people commented on how my eyes looked funny today... the blue had a kind of brownish tint to it.

Emily and I stopped for coffee on the way back to our community today. Two Pune boys heard us speaking Marathi and came over to talk to us... they know some people from another American program here. Emily proceeded to tell them how long we're here, where we're staying, and what program we're part of. I later explained to her the concept within the movie Taken with Liam Neeson.