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2003-08-30 - Nanital (Day 137)

7:00am and there is pounding on my door...ugh...when traveling in India its travel on "Indian time" which means the day starts at 6:00am with it being perfectly normal to have waiters pounding on the door to ask if there is a breakfast order... rrrrgh...refusing to live on Indian time, I turn over put the pillow over my head and go back to sleep.

When I do awake, I get a quick fix of BBC, then a deep dose of Larry King and then back into a stupor of HBO. By the afternoon, my body rebelled from the overdose and I broke free of the pusher, and went down to a cyber-café to put up the latest journal pages. It is amazing how TV or the lack of it changes the day. With the average American watching 7-8 hours of TV a day, I wonder if that is why I see so few Americans in India...they would suffer from withdrawal. However, on the other hand it is probably the place to go to break cold turkey with that nasty habit. As to myself, this trip has broken my "AOL" - always-online - internet habit though like other drugs that one kicks the habit only when it is unavailable; I wonder if I will slip back into its clinches when again I have ADSL to the bathroom.

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