Journal 10-25-2010
Song of the day: “Another Day” by Air
Quote of the day: “the whole process of making and consuming pancakes took us five hours” – John
The room is a mess. John and I haven’t had our room cleaned for at least two weeks. We have also been eating groceries so we have accumulated an impressive amount of trash in the corner by the door. 
Today was a pretty relaxed day. I started writing the introduction of my paper. It was kind of tough to get going on the writing. I spent a long time thinking about how to incorporate background information but not be extremely broad. I think that I finally got off to a good start. Later in the day I got some egg rolls for lunch and brought some back for john. I was going to keep writing but then Leah came in and showed me an email that she had received from a doctor who seems to be organizing our stay at VCRC. In the email, which is addressed to Kathy Tuma it says that I am going to be sent alone to a location in the neighboring state of Karala (sorry about the spelling). They want to send me there because it is at that field station that VCRC is doing some genetic bar coding of insects. I mentioned on one of my sheets that I would like to potentially do a project on that sort of work.
I had Leah forward me the email and then I went to the library and sent an email to the Olaf professors and Kathy Tuma to see if they could try to convince the doctor at VCRC to let me stay in Pondi. We will see what happens I guess. I think that it would be an interesting opportunity and a great topic to do a project on but I would be VERY lonely all by myself for a month. So I guess I will probably get a reply from the professors tomorrow sometime. It feels odd that the people at VCRC are so organized and that they have planned things out like this. So far in my experience nothing is this organized in India.
The whole point of me going to VCRC in the first place was so that I didn’t have to be by myself at Auraville (spelling?). Auraville is right next to Pondicherry anyway so if they VCRC guys want to send me all the way to Karala I would much rather be by myself at Auraville. Anyway…. Hopefully this will work out. It isn’t hard to change plans in India. But I feel a little bit awkward about contacting this guy myself because none of the emails have been sent to me in any way. So I thought I would talk to the people running our program before I email him directly.
I also have figured out my whole advisor hold situation. Charles Umbanhowar is now my advisor and can take the hold off. But he wants me to send him a list of classes that I want to take that fill out the rest of my GE and Major requirements before he will take the hold off. So tomorrow I need to go into town to use the Internet and get that done. It is always a huge hassle to get the advisor hold off of your account for registration. This is the last time I will have to deal with that!!!!!
In unrelated news
- I finally got an email from Claire!
- I got some pictures of mom and dad of their new porch and garden, but not of the house itself. (send me some pictures of the house please I want to see it)
- I also decided that instead of doing skiing this year I am going to … not do skiing and have way more time.
- This will also let me visit Mom and Dad and their new house over interim break! I was thinking about bringing Claire along also if that is cool…. I still have to ask you guys about it. But communicating is hard so it can wait. Florida is the perfect J term break place.
- We are achieving celebrity status amongst the locals. People always wave and yell when we drive past. Hahahaha it is pretty silly. But we look pretty silly so I guess we deserve it.
- My beard is coming along nicely.
- I still enjoy curry smooth noodles.
- We are going to Delhi over Duwali (spelling?) Kanav lives in Delhi so we will be celebrating Duwali in with locals! It should be awesome!
- We won’t be seeing Katie and Matt over travel break. They are doing their own thing I guess.
- We like it here! But we are also getting ready to move on.
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