poops and bugs and hives.

so i think i'm losing my mind a little bit. i came upon this conclusion after dana and i got into a rickshaw accident today, and i didn't flinch. weird? a little. it was kind of a slow mo accident, but there was definitely a rear view mirror of another rickshaw passing uncomfortably close to me inside of my rickshaw. then our driver decided it was a good idea to hit the guy again to make him stop so he could yell at him. hehehe. oh india. we just got back from a ridiculous 3 day journey to jaipur for our mid internship seminar, which consisted of 16 hours with 8 people in a jeep (my levels of patience and tolerance for the uncomfortable are now higher than they have ever been in my life i'm pretty sure), 9 hours of class, and a quick visit to manju ji to recover my journal which i thought was gone for sure (woo!). it was so good to see everyone again, and compare war stories and the intense drama/comedy that is working for indian NGO. i'm pretty sure i got fleas from the hotel (not joking), but i'm really not too worried about it, as i spent our night in the hotel together checking out the lice and ringworm the other girls had. (also not joking). not to mention the diarrhea and insomnia that have become more of a condition than a problem. oh yea, and dana is in a constant state of hives of which we can not figure out the cause. who knows, maybe its because we are using this as a shower: so, things are pretty much hilarious in india right now. and i just read this, and it may sound like i'm upset, but this is completely not the case. my life is awesome and funny and dana and i are making big plans for the last weekend, which cannot be broadcast online at the moment, on top of the crazy adventures we've been having here, involving an assortment of hindi religious zealots, listening to some crazy tunes beat out by the unbelievably awesome kids from the school i'm working with, drunk angry mumbaians, an australian woman who gets us pizza and illegal copies of my favorite movies, swedes who informed me of late night headphone techno dance parties on the beach in a town i will be traveling through, public transportationlistening to some amazingly talented traditional performers one of which played a waterjug like a madman, having lifetime movie/knitting parties with dana, and getting soaked by rogue water balloons just walking down the street, and i'm making big plans for traveling in 2.5 weeks, and vaneja is having us over in a few days for a big south indian holiday at her house. woo talk about a run on sentence. oooh and did i mention that i found secret music i accidentally hid from myself on my computer, that i assumed had been lost in the crash of dec 2006? i like finding things that were lost more than getting new things 98% of the time.

oh and obligatory unflattering sari picture: