New York State Of Mind

OK, so I'm back to slackerdom, apparently.

I am going to make an excuse for procrastinating and say that I'm just trying to enjoy some good old fashioned laziness before I start back at work next week. This is probably bullshit -- anytime is a good time for laziness!

Anyway, in order to stave off anybody's anger at not hearing most of the exciting adventures of my final days in India, I have started to upload some pictures to my flickr account.

The most convenient way to look at them is to click right here.

Please note that since I took SO FREAKING MANY pictures, I am starting to add them very slowly. At this point, I have only added photos that I don't want to tweak in photoshop. Which means this is some of the less exciting stuff, aesthetically. Mostly just plain old snapshots. But it will hopefully whet your appetites for the pretty ones to come. I hope you appreciate this more 'curatorial' approach rather than me just plonking into flickr every damn picture I took and letting all of you wander aimlessly through my 50 practically-identical photos of some Nawab's tomb in Lucknow.

As for why I have given you the silly ones and not the artsy ones, it's because I deleted CS3 off my computer before I left. Why did I do that? Dude, I was so stupid back then...

That Is All I Have To Say About That

Proof
Originally uploaded by the opoponax

This is not photoshop. I really went to the Taj Mahal.

You can tell I'm not making this up because I look like crap.

Would I have photoshopped a picture of myself looking this bedraggled into the Taj Mahal?

I'm Home!

OK, yet another quick note just to let yall know I'm back home in Brooklyn, safe and sound. More later.

Serious catching up, and wrapping up, etc etc etc is in store, so don't think this blog is over yet!

For instance, in the next few days I'm hoping to either make some photo recap posts or post a link to some kind of flickr slideshow or something. So stay tuned, because OMG I took literally a thousand photos and now you all have to look at them.

Homeward Bound

I'm sittin' in a railway station, got a ticket for my destination...

Or, really, I'm sitting in the internet cafe around the corner from the seedy Mumbai guesthouse that is storing most of my luggage, trying to mentally prepare myself to come back to America.

But I do, in fact, have a ticket for my destination. One outta two ain't bad, right?

Anyway, folks, it's been fun. I'm not entirely finished with this blog, because I know I haven't written about the Taj Mahal (which was like a week ago, what is WRONG with me?), or about my upstairs-downstairs train trip back to Mumbai, or about the several days I have now spent between Mumbai and Pune. I will fill you all in on all of this from the comfort of my couch in Brooklyn, in a couple of days.

From here on out, I pretty much just have to go reclaim my stuff, get a taxi to the airport (I'm really hoping for one of the especially cool ones with the velour interior, blue strobe light, huge shrine to Ganesh on the dash, etc. But honestly any cab will do.), and bon voyage!