Play Day!


So we were all sent home from work early today due to the rains (MonsoonMania2006! Not to be confused with MartiniMania2002). It's really a bizarre feeling to be sent home from work due to weather. Although I had a few classes cancelled due to snow at Notre Dame, I'm really not used to the concept of things being cancelled due to weather.

But, I'll take it!

I came back to the hotel and decided to have lunch at Masala Bay, the really nice Indian restaurant here. Due to the rains, the manager at Pure was doing double duty and managing Masala Bay for lunch today as well. She noticed that I had finished my last book (White Teeth), and we got into a long conversation about books. I actually wound up coming up to my room so that I could give her my copy of White Teeth. She's like my little book buddy now.

And I have some exciting news...one of the things that I miss most from home is PLAIN iced tea. Not iced tea with no added sugar. Not lemon flavored iced tea. Just regular old, leaves soaked in water, plain iced tea. Until now, I thought that the concept was non-existent in India...but they have it at Masala Bay! I almost hugged the guy who brought it to me - such a treat.

I'm not too sure how to spend the rest of my day. I'm going to go to the gym, maybe hit up Mocha for a few hours (I am already really into my next book "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"). Oh, and I'm going to email my little sister (who noted that, while she had been reading my blog, deserved a personal update). It's coming Pookie!