I hope I'm not jinxing things by saying so, but I actually feel okay today. For the first time in the week (!) that I've been here. I went to the doc at the clinic yesterday, which was a funny experience unto itself. I said that I was having a bag cough, it was in my chest, etc., and had been running a fever. Once I mentioned the fever, he put his hand on my forearm and nodded. He then started digging in the cabinet next to him and pulled out three pills. He didn't say what they were, just to take them once a day on an empty stomach. I noticed that they were erothromycin, an antibiotic, which I was on for a long while--and am probably immune to--but I'll try it and go for something else if need be. He then asked if I'd mind taking cough syrup, I said no. He start fishing under his desk for something and came back with a bottle he'd poured (about the size of a vanilla extract bottle) of the stuff under his desk. I mentioned that I'd been taking ibuprofin for the fever and he said that I should take something else (what it is, I don't know). He took a handful from the same cabinet and put them into a small ziploc bag. Then he asked my name, age, and where I was from. I must have had a look on my face (when don't I?); he mentioned that he needed to write that in his log book. And then I left. In total, probably about 5 minutes. No exam or temperature taking. No pharmacist or perscription. Certainly no copay (I don't think care is free here, but I think they're giving it to me gratis because I'm working there).
Now that i'm feeling better, I'm hoping to explore a bit more. I've been pretty much in a rut of going to work and then straight home, which is getting a little old. Last night I went to the big mall by the flat to pick up a few things at the supermarket and also just to have a change of pace. Even sitting in the food court for a while was nice. I think I've come to rely on public places to sit and just be for a while, particularly since I've been in school; I don't know that there are any here. There's a chain of coffee shops, but I don't think it's quite the same as grabbing a chair at Starbucks. When I start to feel like this, I pull White Traveller and go to a nice hotel and sit in the restaurant or bar area. No one will give you weird looks for being on your computer, people will leave you alone, etc.
I'm also working from another office, which is good. It's on the other side of the train station (everything here is East or West of the train station, so I live in Malad(W)), much quieter, and I have my own space/room. It was really hard to work at the clinic building--15 outreach workers running around, carrying on (which is fine, and sort of fun, but only from a distance). This place will get taken over by a bunch of people from Boston next week, but I think I can stay in here no problem. I'm sort of liking my groove here and hope their trip won't interrupt that, but we'll cross that when it happens. They're also coming in on Sunday, so I think there's going to be a dinner that night. It's weird since I used to work with them, don't anymore, but am working on one of their projects here, even though I'm here independently with my own funding and mandate...so it's this weird thing where I don't totally know what my relationship is with them.
Either way, with them in on Sunday, no going away this weekend. I'll have to start planning for next. I sort of feel like if I go anywhere, I have to go to Agra for the Taj Mahal, so I may fly to Delhi for a day, Agra for the day, then back. Otherwise, it's doing more local travel, or going south to a beach in Goa. Any thoughts or suggestions are more than welcomed.
Now that i'm feeling better, I'm hoping to explore a bit more. I've been pretty much in a rut of going to work and then straight home, which is getting a little old. Last night I went to the big mall by the flat to pick up a few things at the supermarket and also just to have a change of pace. Even sitting in the food court for a while was nice. I think I've come to rely on public places to sit and just be for a while, particularly since I've been in school; I don't know that there are any here. There's a chain of coffee shops, but I don't think it's quite the same as grabbing a chair at Starbucks. When I start to feel like this, I pull White Traveller and go to a nice hotel and sit in the restaurant or bar area. No one will give you weird looks for being on your computer, people will leave you alone, etc.
I'm also working from another office, which is good. It's on the other side of the train station (everything here is East or West of the train station, so I live in Malad(W)), much quieter, and I have my own space/room. It was really hard to work at the clinic building--15 outreach workers running around, carrying on (which is fine, and sort of fun, but only from a distance). This place will get taken over by a bunch of people from Boston next week, but I think I can stay in here no problem. I'm sort of liking my groove here and hope their trip won't interrupt that, but we'll cross that when it happens. They're also coming in on Sunday, so I think there's going to be a dinner that night. It's weird since I used to work with them, don't anymore, but am working on one of their projects here, even though I'm here independently with my own funding and mandate...so it's this weird thing where I don't totally know what my relationship is with them.
Either way, with them in on Sunday, no going away this weekend. I'll have to start planning for next. I sort of feel like if I go anywhere, I have to go to Agra for the Taj Mahal, so I may fly to Delhi for a day, Agra for the day, then back. Otherwise, it's doing more local travel, or going south to a beach in Goa. Any thoughts or suggestions are more than welcomed.
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