10am-1pm Typical work day stuff- drink coffee, check email, check news sites, check facebook, run analysis, drink chai, chat with others about project/dissertation stuff, drink water, make calls, etc...
1:15pm Ah, it's time for my favorite meal of the day! Lunch at the office is family-style, which is fantastic for me. Everyone brings in their home cooked meals in little aluminum pots and shares with everyone else like a mini-buffet. Home-cooked Indian food is without a doubt much better than what you can get in a restaurant. I'm not sure how I avoided gaining 15 pounds this summer. Of course I brought my "home cooked" food to share courtesy of a food vendor downstairs, made it myself, hah!
2p-4p See 10a-1p. I'm very well hydrated by this point.
4pm If it's a Friday, I'm probably scrambling around trying to figure out transportation and tickets for a weekend trip that night. Yep, I like to procrastinate in work AND leisure. I really do like taking the trains around in India, it's just less hassle and fantastic people watching! While trying to book tickets online for the Indian Railways, I found this very helpful website to buying tickets at the train station that one should "Take a print and keep in your Travel Bag" (I just love things like this about India).
Step 1: YOU ARE AT NEW DELHI STATION (PAHAR GANJ SIDE).
Step 2: THIS IS “INTERNATIONAL TOURIST BUREAU” BUILDING.
Boy, I don't know what I'd do without these very helpful steps (I'm not making this up, you can see for yourself here.)! Thank god they made the ticket buying process so "easy" for tourists!
6pm Work is over! Time to head home.
6:05p Doh! It rained. That means more haggling with the autorickshaw drivers (rain means they'll try to charge more since no one wants to walk during the monsoon). Worse yet, the streets are flooded, water "seasoned" by the streets of New Delhi is splashing everywhere (yay for a healthy immune system), and traffic jams galore. A 10 minute commute turns into 30...
To be continued...
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