My new hobby

I know, I know... it's been a looooong time since my last post. In that time, I've traveled to Bangkok and Mumbai (once again). Tomorrow I head back to SF for a couple of weeks (sooooo exciting!).

Anyway, this is just a short post about my new hobby, which is 'attempting to board all my flights in India using only the email printout of my flight itinerary'. This will probably come as a surprise to all of you living in the land of Homeland Security, but it's true: In India, you usually don't have to show any form of identification whatsoever at any point from check-in to boarding. You hand them your printed out e-ticket, and that's all you need to get in. I could hand them something that said, 'Macho Man Randy Savage', and 75% of the time I'd have no problems boarding my flight (every so often someone does remember to ask for ID).

Even weirder, I can hand my ticket over to a friend and let them check in on my behalf -- so I don't even have to be PRESENT to get a boarding pass. Who knows. I think only a statistician or security expert could tell us whether all the hoops we pass through in the rest of the world are actually any more effective than the Indian way, but at least they give the semblance of increased safety. Hmm...

You can take the girl out of Boston...

Looks like despite living for periods in 6 other cities in the past 7 years, I'm still pretty much a Bostonian at heart. Haha... not a shocker, really. I am a little traumatized I got one wrong, though. I think it was either the frappe question or pronouncing Quincy correctly:

Dude! You're 97% from Massachusetts!

Dude! Me and Sully and Fitzie and Sean are gonna hit Landsdowne tonight after the game, hang out at the Beerworks. I'll pick you up at the Coop at 6.

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Suzie and her sari

I felt very Jane Austen-esque tonight because all of us girls were running around asking to borrow things from each other and helping each other suit-up. I also wore a petticoat and bodice, and an elaborate silk outfit. And once my sari was on, I wanted to take turns about the room to show off my figure.

Here I am getting ready. Isn't this the most MySpace picture in the world? I just wanted to show off my bangles and bodice (I thought I looked like a gypsy), but since I had to self-take the picture, it turned out looking kind of scandalous.



I looooove my sari, and since I'll never be able to put it on again without a lot of help, here is a photo montage to preserve the memories:

News from here and home

The last couple days have been kind of stressful and I think my body is rebelling. I feel achy and flu-like and had to stay home and spend the day sleeping in bed. If I still feel like this tomorrow I'll probably have to go to a doctor. Blech. Tonight is the holiday party, so I really want to make an appearance in my sari but I don't think I'll be able to stay long.

On a very cute note, this week I have Liz from Mountain View here training the team (I feel so badly for the state I'm in!), and what did she show up with in India but a bag of little surprises from Matt! I have the awesome-est boyfriend ever.



This bag looks familiar, by the way ;) . I'm visiting Mateo 3 weeks from today -- it'll be so awesome to say "Two weeks and X days" starting tomorrow!