Yowza! I leave for India in two days! I am a mix of nervous and excited. Oddly, I am a bit nervous about the fourteen hour plane ride — that’s a long time! I have plenty-o-reading material (all the new books I am teaching next year) and some audiobooks. I love audiobooks. Right now I am listening to Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie, and I am really enjoying it. It makes me want to visit Kashmir, but I probably will not.
The cats are getting hungry and knocking shit off tables, so I better go feed them…
The Connecticutian 
A) please don’t go to kashmir
B) did you really use the word shit in a blog post?
I met some Canadians who just got back from Kashmir, and they loved it. They even went to Srinigar.