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What Are You Saving It For?: Should I stay or should I go?
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Wednesday, September 12, 2007. Should I stay or should I go? The summer of being a corporate wife is over. Straw poll: should I keep this except not write about work? But then what's the fun in that? Or do I start over somewhere else? Or, do I just give in to the urge to let it go? The trip's documented, my travelogue more or less done. Archive the travel, re subtitle the blog and fire it up!
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What Are You Saving It For?: All better
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Bitching works. We got our clothes back, and I had a shower and got some clean clothes. All better. I talked with my mom, and with a good friend from home today, so all is well. I know you were worried. Only the clean clothes part is all better. right? July 25, 2007 at 1:37:00 AM GMT 5:30. Um, I guess so: patriarchy's still kicking, so that's still worth bitching about.
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What Are You Saving It For?: Comparative Patriarchies
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Monday, July 23, 2007. Sounds like a women's studies class, no? The housemates are now gone (for now) but in their company I had the impression that if these (smart, affable) guys are any indication: educated American men (still? I'm trying to think comparatively here because that's how I like to read: put two or more things together and they'll shed some light on each other. India’s presi...
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What Are You Saving It For?: July 2007
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Monday, July 30, 2007. As we browsed, several poeple asked if I read Telegu (usually when I'd pick up something with an interesting cover that suggested lots of pictures). No, I'd tell them. I don't. End of conversation. At one bookstall, a man in his late 50s asked me what language I spoke. I responded English, and Spanish. Ah, he says, habla espanol? Links to this post. Friday, July 27, 2007.
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What Are You Saving It For?: Talk to Strangers
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Monday, July 30, 2007. As we browsed, several poeple asked if I read Telegu (usually when I'd pick up something with an interesting cover that suggested lots of pictures). No, I'd tell them. I don't. End of conversation. At one bookstall, a man in his late 50s asked me what language I spoke. I responded English, and Spanish. Ah, he says, habla espanol? Can wait to see you. Women of Color Blog.
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What Are You Saving It For?: June 2007
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Friday, June 29, 2007. It is ever growing: http:/ picasaweb.google.com/elizaryg. I'll have to start taking pictures of food and drink and signage. Every time I buy batteries here, they seem to last all of 1 hour then they die. I should just buy the rechargable ones. Links to this post. Links to this post. Monday, June 25, 2007. Hyderabad is a small town. And there's one idiosyncratic dusty museum.
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What Are You Saving It For?: Music Music Music
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Thursday, July 26, 2007. You really haven't lived until you've heard "Hotel California" belted out by a five piece band of strolling Malaysian musicians. I so. Regret not buying their CD. They followed it up with Tom Jones's "The Green Green Grass of Home" and Lionel Richie's "Hello" and some Cliff Richards (who's from Lucknow, who knew? And then they did one Malaysian song. So great.
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What Are You Saving It For?: Lost in Translation
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Friday, July 27, 2007. The joys of an overpriced dirty Grey Goose Martini. (Add you own accents as appropriate):. Me: I'll have a Bombay tonic please. Waiter: Sorry Madam; we have no Bombay gin. Me: Ok, then a dirty grey goose martini. Me: a martini with grey goose vodka, and add olive juice and olives. You add the olive juice, and that's what makes it dirty. Him: olives, yes. Him: ah, wine.
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What Are You Saving It For?: Being Recognized
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Monday, July 23, 2007. Him: you are nice people, you give money. [I had just given another elderly woman money at the previous stop]. Me: oh, um, thanks. Was she a widow? Him: yes. You are nice girl. Are you Hindu? Me: no. Mexican. Him: Ah, Chicana. Me (eyes popping out of my head): YES! Chicana. You know Chicana! He says nothing, just seems pleased with himself. Labels: being american abroad.
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What Are You Saving It For?: Negotiations
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What Are You Saving It For? All about my summer as a corporate wife in India. Not as funny as you might think. Friday, August 10, 2007. I think one of the reasons that Yunnis's book (and by extension, the notion of microcredit and its larger implications) has stayed with me is the absolute practicality. Of the question it approaches: How do you help the people at the very bottom- the poorest people in any given capitalist society? Complicating this are my observations being in a developing, third world c...
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