Tag Archives: Jesus

9. Host Family (8.22.2008)

First expe­ri­ence meet­ing my Indian host fam­ily. Krishna’s birth­day cel­e­bra­tion ensues, plus inter­est­ing, clumsy cul­tural inter­ac­tion. I make a fool of myself by fail­ing to ring Krishna’s bell properly.

20. Fury (11.12.2008)

While con­sumed with research for my ethno­graphic paper (Which is online. And posted under “ethnog­ra­phy.”), I didn’t have much time for reflec­tion in my jour­nal. How­ever, after the state elec­tions, I was enraged by the pass­ing of Propo­si­tion 8. Though I con­tem­plated buy­ing a rifle and learn­ing to use it, or threat­en­ing some sen­a­tors and oth­ers, I wrote this thought­ful rant instead.