Month 5

OK, Five month mark, on to the 6th.
This was better than the previous month, at least the last couple of weeks. The rain helps, I love it. At night, when rain lets up a bit and the full moon shines above the coconut and fern trees, I feel like I'm in the land of prehistoric dinosaurs. Not sure why; I guess the trees seem ancient...or I'm crazy. Pick one.

I had a nice dinner with Detgen tonight (Hard Rock Cafe....style, baby!). She's been out of town for 3 weeks or so traveling Asia (jealous). We talked about our futures here, there, anywhere and got to the topic of what bugs us most about Bang/India. Mine was the reinforced, perhaps encouraged, caste system. There is little room for "you can do anything"; very little room. And it seems nobody wants to change it. Not sure about anybody else, but I hate seeing kids homeless, pantless, hungry, and no future; or having our driver be treated like a low-class citizen (which is what he is, they say). He's a nice guy, but drivers don't deserve respect, I guess. Ugh. Hate it.

We've been concentrated a bit more on consulting, which is more interesting to me. I hope we continue it, I'd like to pick Christopher's brain (my colleague, not brother... I know his twisted, warped, evil, tree-huggin' hippie brain).
We have three major events in the works; a consulting seminar, open enrollment, and Bangaluru Speaks public facilitation that is this friday. I hope it goes well, a lot of people seem to be interested. It will bring people together to talk about the city, which has been hastily transformed with urbanization. A lot has changed in the past 3 years...I'm told.
Power has been in "load shedding" status for about a week. Hopefully I can finish this before the power goes out again.....Yup..
laters.