the big THREE; Bayou relocates to Malcha Marg

last night was a very productive ladies night. there was a cajun theme and we feasted on crabcakes, shrimp gumbo, red beans and rice, cornbread, and bourbon cheesecake washed down with hurricanes.

here were the highlights:

• hearing how ashlee's mumma's cornbread isn't sweet and is made in an iron skillet
• learning that crabcakes made from canned crab are just as good almost as fresh crab
• networking to get santosh an FSN job at the embassy
• networking to get myself a job with USAID
• hearing and understanding lots of french, even though i can't speak (comes out like frindi (french+hindi)...
• hurricanes made with tropicana fruit fusion
• CORN BREAD
• eating a fabulous new orleans dinner in a spectacularly decorated flat in Malcha Marg-- i now have many many ideas for whenever guddu and i move into a small, blank space

i am so unmotivated today because:

1. it is friday
2. less than 2 weeks left in internship
3. the report i'm still editing is very long and poorly written
4. so much networking, so little time left!
5. trip to Jammu and Kashmir to plan!
6. today's our anniversary
7. i'm starting a small book trade for TJPPP students

SO today is our 3rd wedding anniversary for the Hindu temple ceremony. tomorrow is for the court ceremony. for visa/green card purposes, tomorrow is our anniversary, but we all have the tendency to remember today. i am going to the big Hanuman Mandir in connaught place after work to pray and give thanks for how lucky i have been. this is the same mandir into which a news journalist successfully snuck a gun hidden in a plate to be given as an offering.

about the books. i am getting 2 textbooks from India. if you are also interested in purchasing Economic Growth by Weil for Abegaz's class or the Stiglitz book for Baker's class, let me know and i'll try to hook you up.