There is this one book called Endgame that starts off with a list of premises about how people operate in the now-and-here, the ‘landscape of despair’. My vacation felt a lot like that; I think I have lost the ability to live out of suitcases. There needs to be a point to everything now.
After returning from a vacation that was the antichrist of the Sunday saints, my reporting heads request that I not take lunch breaks to help them meet a few of their deadlines (kicked me in Achilles’ heel they did) and all this parallel to a field study being conducted in Sindh. Quite a vent post this is turning out to be but I’m so tired of all this traveling in the field and heat; scared to face a mirror because it might just throwJabba the Hut back at me plus Lucy is leaving after this venture for biggest brokerage house in Pakistan where I told her she would be miserable. I’m not exactly the sort of person people call up first to share good news with, particularly if they know I may be upset. I’m going to be working up a red misery without her.
Books children should never have to read: Charlotte’s Web, The Moffats and Oliver Twist (the book may as well have ended where Sikes killed Nancy).
Had terrible S and H withdrawal symptoms today.
o If anyone knows of any funding sources for graduate programs at Cambridge and Oxford please let us know (other than the ones the Universities offers themselves).
o Also if anyone knows of anything fun in Larkana (like a dhamal or something, please let me know). We’re hopefully covering shopping in Khairpur unless Lucy decides to react to heat and nose bleed over entire plans. I have offered to perform surgery. I feel qualified with my intake of Scrubs and Grey’s Anatomy.
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in the words of the beatles, you know my name, look up the number!
love, i miss you muchly too. please meet us. larkana, hmm you must go pay homage to the bhuttos, and google up one of fatima bhutto's articles in the news, i think she did write about her recent visit to larkana in the news, i think it was published on april 4 or 5.
Oh!? I have shopped for banaras in Khairpur last year. You must check out the "nehar ka kinara" if you must. Check out the Faiz Mehel in Khairpur too.
Check photos on Flickr: flickr.com/people/ramlas. Got a Khairpur set.
Poor Nancy :( She should have left Sikes and moved in with Wilbur in his barn.
Though I’ve never been to Larkana but I’ll second the advice of Atrophying-senses that you can visit the grave of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto :)
How about adding 'The Little Match Girl' to that Children's book list.
"The Red Shoes" is another one. A real downer.
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