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Deportation
Well, I'm sure you've all (both) noticed the lack of updates recently. The bad news is I'm not dead. I've just been I've been fairly busy and preoccupied lately getting ready for something big and important. (Well, not very important to you.) The good news is that pretty much all of that preparation is over now, so I could begin updating more frequently for a while.
The bad news is that I'm probably not going to.
You see, tomorrow I'm being shipped to India. Yes, India. Yes, "shipped." My employer is sending me to our center in Bangalore because I know what I'm doing. This is a fairly rare trait in my company, which is what justifies the expense of first-class postage. It should be fun, but I'm also going to have my work cut out for me. Unfortunately while I'm there I probably won't have access to a computer for personal use very often, and won't have a good way to keep Areaology.com updated.
Yes, I know this won't be all that different from the current state of affairs. However, this time you have advance warning. Come back in June. Maybe not until the middle of June or so. I do also plan on keeping track of the goings-on while I'm abroad and posting it all when I get back, for a big update after the absence. Until then:
Things I know about India
They have elephants there. And eunuchs, I think. One or the other of these probably serves as the taxi service.There may be monkeys there. This is largely why I agreed to go.
Apparently the country is home to a wide variety of horrible diseases, judging from the vaccinations I had to get. As usual, these vaccinations made me very sick. I'm not sure which is worse: That someone injected a bunch of diseases into my body and the next day I was miserably ill, or that I paid the aforementioned person for this privilege.
There are a heck of a lot of people living in India. About half of them are Hindu and about half of them are Muslim. The Hindu ones might not totally hate Americans right now, I'm not sure.
India is closer to the equator than I was ever meant to be.
Most Indian films are existentialist explorations of class, duty and culture. They make little to no damn sense.
PS: None of these statements should be accepted as facts. If anything, they should merely be used to illustrate how little I know about what I'm getting myself into and my general ignorance. See you in 4-6 weeks!