bihari peanut butter

last night while sleeping i seriously hurt my back. i pulled a muscle or slept in a weird position, and it still hurts after 4 advils! guddu said this morning, "yeah, you were sleeping really crooked." thanks for waking me up. i remember dreaming about an airplane crashing or something- so maybe that inspired my contortioning...

right now i am formulating a development plan for guddu's village. basically, i want to sell shares to the villagers to invest in a new factory. egg farming was a good idea, but i reconsidered after remembering all the chickens that have been killed in vietnam and thailand. his brother already runs a brick factory, so that would not be good for his sales. we need a product that doesn't require electricity for production... india really needs peanut butter. maybe a peanut butter factory would be a good idea. it could also be traded to calcutta and patna. it's a pretty stable product-- all you need to do is grind peanuts. we could grow peanuts on some land, and then find some non-electric grinding machines. voila! peanut butter factory!

all of this planning is for a paper i need to write for economic development class. i am motivating myself by considering to actually implement this plan in the future. so if i work hard now, maybe it will come to fruition? at least i can hope for an A in the class.

can i complain about the weather? it is so COLD. i am going to try to make myself run today. OUTSIDE.