a handful of hours

in which i've had a most successful meeting, arranged another for an interesting-sounding job, heard that my monitor's not doing so well, discovered that rupees in israel can only be traded on the black market, seen the video (it's really interesting) and received a gift of beer from the director for that taking so long, begun transcribing my japan / india notes, shopped, learned that india has increased my tolerance for hot chili's in a big way, and now i'm off to blade.

i have most of the readings for the weekend open - that's a lot of windows :P

speaking of windows, if i do begin to freelance i'm going to need to install a copy. swak.

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oh, right. and i've learned that some of my "friends" in goa are a bit dubious. they didn't try any of that shit on us - i suspect that knew that wouldn't go well - but they're pretty useful connections so i won't be erasing them from my contacts list.