the (not so) cold and other random things

firsty, I wont complain about the cold, for a number of reasons

the cold is
a. often confined solely to my office during day light hours
b. not a tenth as cold as what my Mongol Compadres are dealing with so far.
c. only going to get worse, so I dont want to bore my already small (and perhaps cold climate based) audience before winter really hits.

d. somewhat mitigated by these bad boys

another week at work, spent writing a report on how hungry people are in the mid west. I went to  a meeting about emergency nutrition for Nepal (ie what to do when the big earthquake actually hits), and there was a map of various interventions going on in the mid and far west  region to dea with food insecurity and malnutrition. not that you would be interested but you can see it here, anyway, after a depressing look at the facts, i asked my colleague despite all the interventions and work and money being pumped into the area, why the population are still hungry, stunted, and underweight and why do mothers not give their kids any liquid when they are sick.....while the latter I didnt get a repsonse for, apparently theres just no food. So despite all the efforts of the UN agencies, the INGOs, the MoH and the NGOs, .....theres still not enough food...

ke garne? what to do ? as they say in nepal.

power/load shedding has kicked up a notch this week to now 8 hours a day (often a little more) of no power. which would be ok, if the power went out at night, but its usually out right when you need it, i.e shower time,  during the day at work, and in the evening. the noise of generators at work, around the streets and in the neighbour hood is now just background noise and I'm slowly getting used to the fumes.
so i'm sitting here, on my bed at 5pm sunday, diligently charging everything that can possibly be charged, letting the water heat up for a shower ,and preparing for 9pm bedtime when the power is scheduled to go out. its interesting how easily you get used to the power cuts, as they get up to 16 hours a day life will become far more interesting/challenging, and i'm prepared to be showering at 3am to get hot water, and waking up to plug in laptops, phones, camera's whatever else.  in the meantime, showering is more optional than mandatory, phones remain uncharged for entire weekends if you manage to sleep through any  window of power, and social activities suddenly get planned around power/no power.


listening to: Mazzy Star, Among my Swan. feeling like : Faithless , Sunday 8pm.

next on underthehimalayansun santacon, february to dubai, and Liz, K Dog and The flying dutchman host a christmas party.

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