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March 16th 2007
Published: March 16th 2007
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lake at Udaipur
Just wrote a whole long intro to this blog and then the computer stuck and I lost the lot. :-((
Firstly, I am really grateful to Mike, my travelling companion over the last week (more later), for this blog entry still having photos, as my camera was lost/stolen in Jaisalmer (more later). He has kindly copied all the photos he took during the time we travelled together. So as Mike was behind the camera, this means I'm in more of the pictures, which is a good or bad thing depending on which way you look at it...
I'm just coming to the end of my time in Rajasthan, I've been here almost 3 weeks, and about to make my way up to the Punjab, to Amritsar.
So, rewinding a couple of weeks, if I can recall (travelling seems to be great for everything except preservation of short term memory), I was still in Jaipur. I took the best part of the next day trying to find the bank who were apparently going to give me back my swallowed bank card, only to find out (which I had suspected all along) that this wasn't possible. Amazingly, Indian ATMs are
Dorm room (with mouse) in Jodhpur
very advanced and can detect immediately whether or not the card it has just eaten due to machine error, is a card issued by its own bank, or not, and if not, it destroys the card. ???
I headed back to the guest house just in time to catch the thunderstorm from the rooftop (more too on this later, freaky desert weather), where we had a great panoramic view of the lightning around the Tiger Fort, which overlooks Jaipur, and accompanied by the Muslim call to prayer which echoed around the sky - it was really quite magical, and I have to also say that the call to prayer in Jaipur is quite atmospheric and melodic, another reason, I think, to visit this city.
However this also meant that I had to cancel my trip to the Tiger Fort with Marko, my Croatian hippie guest house neighbour, where we had planned to go and watch the sunset.
I decided to use my last day in Jaipur to go and visit the Amber Fort, which is a few miles outside the city. This didn't quite work out as planned. I stupidly preceded the visit by deciding to munch on some
Jodhpur fort
hashish, offered to me by Marko, not thinking this would have any effect, having no disturbing memories of hashcake parties years ago. I went and had some lunch, then got ready to go out and the first idea I had that something was up was when I came to lock my door, and couldn't work out how to shut the padlock. Still, this was a mild symptom. I went downstairs and hailed a rickshaw to take me to the fort, and over the course of the next half hour I went from being someone who felt slightly stoned to someone whose whole reality turned upside down; where I was convinced that the rickshaw driver who'd been stopped by the police for not displaying a licence, was embroiled in some dark criminal activity in which I would be implicated and thrown into an Indian jail forever more, for crimes including taking the ride for 200 rupees there and back instead of having the energy to bargain him down more.... The driver dropped me at the fort at the point at which I was certain I had lost my mind, that this was a permanent state of being, and terrified that if
rooftop cafe, Heaven Guest House, Jodhpur
anyone tried to engage me in conversation longer than a few seconds, I would grab them, tell them I'd gone crazy and they would have to take me to the nearest psychiatric hospital. I couldn't think, could hardly walk for not knowing whether the ground was about to collapse under me, everyone who was walking towards me became an enemy who might attack me at any time; and I couldn't work out by that time if I was actually at the fort, and what it should look like....
Very difficult to describe the full horrors of those few hours -to skip over the worst bits of the bad trip, I managed somehow to find my way down the fort, back to the rickshaw driver who by that time I didn't recognise, and got back to the guest house fortunately just in time to catch my Italian friend Mario who I'd got to know there, who I have to say was completely fantastic with me. He sat me down and said all the right things, reassuring me I hadn't gone mad, that nothing was going to be permanent, and that it would all wear off in a few hours. He cancelled
Jodhpur fort
his appointments (he works out in India for 6 months of the year) and stayed with me for hours, keeping me calm and continuing to reassure me, until eventually I began to feel a bit better, and slowly got back to normal. I am so grateful to this guy and a couple of friends at home had a lucky escape from a crisis phonecall from me telling them they would have to come to India to fetch me.
I did actually take a few pictures from the Amber fort, trying desperately to hang on to some normality, but it's not such a bad thing these were some of the pictures that were lost on my memory card when my camera got taken, as I couldn't actually tell what I was taking pictures of...
Having recovered from my bad trip, I had another bad trip the following day (this time of the bus variety, which as you know I'm sort of used to by now, therefore am not so liable to go into a psychotic state over it). I boarded a bus to Pushkar and seemed (SEEMED) to be sitting next to a reasonable looking man. Lulled into a false sense
'Blue city' Jodhpur
of security for at least the first 10 minutes by him taking this long to start staring at my breasts. The conversation with him went something like this:
He:Coming from, Madam? (nothing too abnormal about this well used phrase)
Me: England.
He: England! Long way. I am a doctor.
Me: Really?
He: Look, here is my ID card. I am a doctor.
Me: Ok (actually I do try and be more conversational as long as I'm not feeling threatened but I can't actually remember what I said to him so am just making my bit up).
Pause for a few minutes. I continue to read my 'India today' magazine, and I am reading an article about Muslims waging a Jihad on Aids in India.
He (addressing my left breast): Tell me
Me (noticing, and moving slightly away from him): yes?
He: What is the meaning of Jihad?
Me: Sorry? (here, my part of the script is now more authentic as I have detected the breast looking and am now trying to extract myself from having any further conversation with him)
He: What is the meaning of Jihad?
Me: Well, I know it has been adopted as meaning a holy war
Thali, Jodhpur.
but this isn't what it means (also a clever avoidance of having to state what it does actually mean, which I couldn't quite remember)
He: It means a war against evil. This is what it means (my left breast was really getting lots of education on the meaning of Jihad)
Me: Oh, I see (turning much more towards the window and holding my 'India today' higher over my face
He: You know. Sometimes tourists are worried about men.
Me: What?
He: Women. Tourists. They think the Indian men will try something with them
Me: (no comment - by now trying to go through the window)
He: Last time I was on the bus, a tourist thought I was being bad, meaning bad against her
Me: (no comment)
He: You don't need to worry. I am a doctor.
Me: Yes. You told me
He: Look. Here is my ID card. I am a doctor.
Me: (oh god, can't remember anymore, did I speak, did I not...)
Thankfully, pause for about 10 minutes and he gave his eyes a well earned rest from my breast (and rhymes too!) and appeared to fall asleep. Then:
He: Do you know what women's worst fear
sleepy camel, Jodhpur
Me: Sorry? (I must learn not to say this as it precipitates repetition of the comment you didn't want to hear the first time)
He: Do you know what women's worst fear is?
Me: (this?)
He: It's being attacked by man
Me: (nothing)
He: Did you know this? Being attacked by man, this is women's worst fear. But you don't need to worry. I am a doctor.
At this point, clearly exhausted from all the hole digging, he did actually fall asleep.
Anyway, on to Pushkar. Have to say, bit of a disappointment, despite the fact that Holi, the Indian festival celebrating the end of winter, happened while I was there. (More a little further on). Pushkar is actually a lovely and quite scenic town with a beautiful lake and an equally beautiful sunset over the lake; but it's also become quite touristy, which seems to have spoiled it a bit. I don't think there's anything wrong at all with places being full of tourists and travellers (after all, I contribute to this phenomenon) but some cities and towns seem to be able to absorb tourists without losing their own spirit, and some don't, and I think
clocktower at Jodhpur marketplace
Pushkar is one of those. The main bazaar has become just a network of internet cafes, rooftop restaurants (nice as they are), clothes shops and jewellery shops.
I did meet a nice American girl though in the Sunset Cafe, where I was staying. She is a film maker and was over in India as a sort of preliminary visit to find travellers (like me!) who have given everything up and gone travelling. We hung out together for a couple of days, then she left, and then it was Holi. This is a mad festival, where people go round with bags of powder colour and chuck it on you, and everyone ends up looking like that shade of pink/purple you get on tie dye clothes. All of these pics again, unfortunately, were lost with my camera. A guy I met on the bus leaving Pushkar showed me a video he'd made of the bazaar on the morning of Holi, with crowds of pink and purple people jumping around, and everyone shouting Happy Holi. Having had so many warnings that Holi can become quite aggressive, it actually turned out to be really a good natured vibe, and for days afterwards (if not
market at Jodhpur
weeks actually) the streets around India were still pink, as were the dogs, cows, and people's skin. It was really nice to wander around everywhere and see the remnants of Holi.
Still, I was pleased to leave Pushkar and caught a bus to my next stop in Rajasthan, Udaipur, for once having a reasonably normal bus trip, for about 8 hours.
I arrived at the Lal Ghat guest house in Udaipur in the evening and immediately met Mike, who I later ended up travelling with until today. He is German but lives in Switzerland, is one of these really well travelled people who has been just about everywhere, both in long term travelling situations, and for work. He has been a really great travelling companion, always helping me with my rucksack, making sure I had the safest (if there is a safest) seat in the rickshaw, being really supportive over my lost camera; anyway more on him later...
The guest house was a very social place again, like the place in Varanasi, with a central courtyard that everyone sits around so you get to know people easily. I was in a dorm again, and sharing my cubicle with another
Jodhpur fort
German guy called Reiner, who's lovely, and who I was also hoping to travel with a bit, but we had a problem contacting each other so continue to stay one town apart all the time. Never mind.
I spent the first evening chatting mainly with Mike, and also a guy called Paul, from England. Or at least I tried to chat, but had started to lose my voice on the bus, and it was just getting worse and worse by this time. Which meant I had to listen more than talk, which also meant that Paul and Mike then had the opportunity to go on at me about the dangers of both malaria tablets, and Kingfisher beer, both of which enter my digestive system on pretty much a daily basis. (Slightly worryingly, perhaps, I seem to be more vigilant about not forgetting to take my beer than not forgetting to take my anti-malarials...)
Udaipur is a beautiful city which I didn't see much of at all, mainly due to my increasingly bad throat problem the next day. However, I still had a really nice day as Celine, a lovely French girl who I had met and spent time with
he doesnt move
and had really nice chats with at the ashram all those months ago, turned up at the guest house in Udaipur. It was really lovely to see her, so we spent most of the day together, though also getting diverted from seeing much of Udaipur as we ended up meeting two Indian sisters on the street and going back with them to their house, which was about all I was good for anyway. More of their sisters joined us at their house, as they showed us round their room, and insisted on cooking us some savoury snacks, which were really good. Again, all my photos of them have been lost though Celine will at least be pleased to know when she reads this, that the ones I took of her eating her dinner that evening, which she hated, have also been lost, so all things have a plus side to them...
I had booked on a bus to Jodhpur the following morning, deciding on a whim on the first night to take the same bus as Mike, being a nicer journey to be with someone, and also because I have ended up stuck some places longer than I wanted, through
more of the Blue City
not making my mind up about when to leave. So it was a bit of a shame I never got to see much of Udaipur, but I still had a good time there for that one day and a bit so never mind.
We had to be up at about 6 to catch our bus at 8am to Jodhpur. Because I seem to have hopped around a lot the last week, all the journeys are getting jumbled together and I don't remember that much about the journey; I think it took about 6 hours. Mike and I went to the Govind hotel, which was in Lonely Planet, which was ok except on a really noisy road. It was just 70 rupees a night (with a free mouse in the dorm, so quite good value), but we ended up changing our accommodation the next day. We spent the rest of the first day wandering around Jodhpur and then walking up to the fort in the evening to look at the view (see pics of Jodhpur - the Blue City) and watch the sunset. Which I actually missed as Mike had gone off to watch it, and then I couldn't find him
Jaisalmer fort
till it was too late. He tells me it was a bit of a crap sunset anyway... We got stopped on the way up to the fort and then on the way down by a restaurant owner who really wanted us to go into his restaurant and have thali (later becoming known by us as the Thali man as this was the main topic of conversation initiated by him). Not to make this blog overly script - like, but we had, over the time we were in Jodhpur, probably about 5 conversations with him that went as follows (pretty much):
Thali man: Coming from sir? (as I said in a previous blog, one of the beauties of travelling with a guy is that I don't have to answer questions. However it also means that anytime I do say anything, like no, we don't want a rickshaw, the answer has to be verified by the male)
Mike: She is from England and I am from Switzerland (after a couple of days of travelling together, we stopped saying both nationalities and would just pick one to cover both of us)
Thali man: England! Switzerland! Visiting fort?
Mike: Yes
Thali man: Fort closed
cows are put to good use as tour guides at Jaisalmer fort...
now. You eat thali instead.
Mike: We know, we're just going to watch the sunset (on subsequent occasions, the last bit became "Fort closed for big wedding. Hollywood star. British. Liz Hurley. Come and eat Thali instead.")
Thali man: You come look at my Thali. It's very good Thali. Best in Jodhpur. Best in India."
Mike: Maybe later. Thank you (this answer, though it never has the desired effect, is something that all tourists seem to end up saying)
Thali man: You come on way down. Yes. Eat Thali.
Mike: Yes. Later. Maybe (variation, still no more effective)
Thali man: Promise?
Mike: No. I don't promise. I said maybe
Thali man: But promise
Mike NO. I don't promise.
Thali man: Ok but promise later?
Basically that bit went on a repeat loop for 5 minutes.
Eventually on each occasion, we managed to get away and never did taste his thali. We ate thali (the one in the pic - Mike takes pictures of all his meals) in another place close to the hotel.
The next day we decided to move guest houses and had seen a nice place the day before in the fort area, which was quieter. We weren't
Jaisalmer fort
in a very good position in that I had no recollection of where we'd seen it, and Mike was sure he did, but didn't. This is because Indian streets and alleys change position every night just incase you haven't experienced enough chaos and confusion the day before.
Eventually, having wandered around with our rucksacks for about an hour, we did find it, dumped our bags, and headed straight up to the fort, which was the reason we'd come to Jodhpur.
After passing the Thali man, and having the conversation about thali and then Liz Hurley, we still thought the fort would somehow be open, or at least part of it would be, and it wasn't till we'd climbed all the way up there, that we were stopped by the police and were told that the fort was closed for Liz Hurley's wedding and would be closed all day.
Mike was completely furious about this, and after having a frustrated conversation with the policeman, with Mike being unable to speak Hindi, and the policeman unable to speak English, we sat on the wall looking over the Blue City, where Mike had about a twenty minute rant about the Indian tourist board,
nice posh hotel room, Bikaner - so nice to have a comfy bed and a pillow that wasn't a brick
and how he was going to get a plane to Thailand and never come to India again (this was also a bit of a repeat loop monologue, punctuated by occasional murmurs by me like 'mm, I know',); finally he decided that he would just go to the tourist board to complain, and then we'd go and do something else for the day, and visit the fort the next morning before leaving for Jaisalmer.
We climbed back down, past the Thali man and had the repeat conversation, (eat thali/maybe later etc) and went and wandered round the market for a while, then went and had a kind of lassi that is unique to Rajasthan, called a Makhiana lassi, and is flavoured with saffron. It's really nice. There's a lassi shop in Jodhpur that serves only this.
We went to the tourist board and complained, in between the phone calls from other tourists complaining about the fort (and palace - the other main attraction) being closed; and then we spent the rest of the day wandering around the city and seeing the view from just about every different angle.
We ate at the guest house that evening and being on the rooftop
Michaelangelo of Bikaner
which overlooks the fort, got to see the fireworks from the wedding (actually a bit of a disappointing display, considering that they weren't skimping on expense).
Anyway, the fort was worth the visit the next morning, and we managed to have a good look round, accompanied by an audio guide narrated by an English 1940s railway station announcer. We'd actually tried to get in without paying, as Mike was determined to try and recoup, legally or illegally, some compensation from the day before, and it's possible to walk right by the ticket office at the first gate. However, 3 or 4 gates up (and a few really steep hills) we were then asked to show our tickets before entering the main palace bit of the fort. Mike made a good show of looking like a stupid tourist and saying 'tickets? do we need tickets?' and in the end he waited while I went back down and got our tickets and picked up the audio guides. Forgetting about Mike's nationality, I got him his guide in English, but fortunately when I realised my mistake, I (unusually for me) said the right thing at the right time, which was to say that
who says there's a rubbish problem in India...
the reason I forgot to get him the German audio guide was because his English was so good, and he was so pleased by this he forgot to be annoyed with me (which I think was a lucky escape for me, having experienced the fort closed/liz hurley/Indian tourist board/plane out of India fallout the day before).
We managed to grab a quick thali (not from the Thali man) by the bus stand just before catching the bus to Jaisalmer that afternoon. We arrived in Jaisalmer in the evening and went to a guest house that had been recommended to us by some people in Jodhpur called the Peacock hotel.
Jaisalmer was where I was planning to do my camel trek; most of the guest houses and hotels run camel safaris and the town makes most of its money this way, hence the accommodation itself is actually quite cheap in comparison with other places (I mean most places in India are cheap by our western standards but Jaisalmer is really cheap).
The guest house owner launched straight into the hard sell on the camel trek, but I didn't commit myself to anything, including having dinner with him that evening.
another day, another fort....Bikaner this time
("Mike - not husband? you single?).
Jaisalmer is a smallish town, a little touristy as we'd been warned but I think it holds on to its pleasantness anyway. We found a nice place to eat that night, and I was starting to think I may do the camel trek a couple of days later and still thinking to hook up with Reiner if he made it to Jaisalmer.
However, that night there was a thunderstorm and heavy rain all night, and although the weather in the morning started out fine, this didn't last long. It wasn't the best of days; I had woken up in a bit of a bad mood, I'd actually slept better than I had done the last few nights which should have put me in a good mood, but in a way I felt more tired and everything was getting to me more than usual - stares from men, the monks at the Jain temple we visited asking for money every time you stopped to look at the shrine, the guy at the jewellery shop where I took my ring to be fixed damaging my ring even more... after we had wandered around the Jain
Mike and me, Bikaner fort
temple in the morning, we stopped for lunch at a rooftop cafe, during which time a storm whipped up again.
Ironically, we spent much of this lunchtime with Mike explaining to me the functions of my camera, as although I'd been using it pretty much ok the last few months, there was still a lot of stuff I didn't understand about it and didn't have the manual with me. So I was really pleased to finally be able to understand more of what I could do with it. Unfortunately short lived.
When the rain started, we thought we'd better find something to do indoors, and were looking around for a hot chocolate or coffee shop when we walked past the fort palace and thought maybe we'll go in there where most of it at least is indoors. The man at the ticket office gave us some coffee while we sat and warmed up for a bit, then we took our audio guides (Mike's in German this time) and went around the palace. It was quite good and I also took lots of pictures that I was really pleased with. On the way out, I stopped to take a picture of
Bikaner fort
the outside of the fort, and at this point realised I couldn't find my camera. I had no recollection of having put it down anywhere, but we retraced all our steps right through the palace, but it was nowhere, and though I went back the next morning just to see if anyone had found it and handed it in later, it was gone. I don't know if it was lost or stolen and there's a point I remember where I think it could have been taken, though Mike's reasoning is that it's more likely I lost it, as he had noticed 'that you are always leaving your water bottle behind, and people have to run after you to take it again.' ???????? which to me is absolutely no indication of anything...
Anyway, after I'd sat on the step and cried for a few minutes over my camera, I decided to let the thing go - basically I don't really care about the camera, it was more the pictures I hadn't yet downloaded, and of those, mainly the ones I had taken of people, fellow travellers, which is lost now. Mike, as I said, was really sweet about the whole thing,
copying all his photos for me, and also helping me search for a new camera.
With the weather as it was, I didn't really know what to do about the camel trek thing, and was considering staying one more day to see if the weather would change, but Mike suggested I go on to Bikaner with him (which would be my next stop anyway) and maybe do a camel trek from there; we were thinking the weather also might be better there anyhow........
So we left the next afternoon for Bikaner on a long bus ride through the now waterlogged desert, and arrived in Bikaner around 9pm, which looked like a river, with several roads unpassable because of flooding. We turned up at a great hotel though that had been recommended by a couple we met in Jaisalmer; Bikaner again is somwhere where you get much more for your money, so we had quite a luxury room and Mike, who has said to me several times about how he never cares about having cold showers, took one long at the modern bathroom and immediately got really happy about the prospect of a hot shower.
I was really indecisive still
desert weather?????
about the whole camel trek thing as it was difficult to know what the weather was going to do; we spent the next day at the fort (this becomes a bit of a habitual activity in Rajasthan), and then a bit at the old city, and looked for a new camera for me for a while.
There was a big sign at Bikaner fort advising tourists not to pay for a tour guide as they provide free guides at the fort. We joined a group of Indian tourists who I think we annoyed a bit by lagging behind at each point. Being the last to leave at the end, the guide finished what he was saying to us, then said to me, 'The end. finished.' ' Thank you , it was very good, etc etc,' I said. 'The end. Finished,' he said again, then went over to Mike and said, 'The end. Finished.' After about the 5th time of his saying this the penny dropped that this was continuing because it was his way of saying, 'This was a free guided tour as promised but now I am waiting for my tip.'
I gave him 20 rupees and did
floods in Bikaner
the same with the tour guide in the next door museum, who also said 'The end. Finished,' or maybe 'Finished. The end.' Mike looked disapprovingly at me both times and said afterwards that I was the type of person who would end up tipping an air stewardess for showing where the emergency exits are...
Had a really good, fun day and evening in Bikaner, and then something seemed to nearly happen in the evening, but then didn't, and then the next day it all seemed to go a bit weird, and I was so distracted by the whole thing that I was able to visit this rat temple just outside Bikaner, in a place called Deshnok, and walk amongst hundreds of rats which run over your bare feet from time to time, without freaking out even a bit. There is a legend that goes along with this temple, that I can't quite recall now and don't have my Lonely Planet with me, but is something about the rats being there because of Yama, the god of Death, refusing to reincarnate the son of a goddess as a human as he had already been reborn as a
Bikaner fort
rat, but promised that after all her male descendants had been reborn as rats, (ha ha!!!) they would be given a human birth again. Hindus go to the rat temple to worship the rats, as they believe they are reincarnates of the goddess's sons. One tradition is to eat something called 'prasad', which means blessed food, that has been covered in 'holy' rat saliva, and is meant to be a doubly auspicious thing to do. I drew the line at the auspiciousness of their little feet scampering over mine.... have to say a few of them were quite sweet and it made me feel guilty all over again for my merciless killing by poison (via Merton pest control dept) of the rat family living under my decking in London. Probably wouldn't have been allowed in the rat temple had they known about this. Hopefully they were just reincarnates of cockroaches or something...
Bikaner was our last stop together, as Mike was going on to Pushkar, and me, Amritsar, so we said goodbye yesterday, and I don't know how much I imagined the sort of lingering looks but neither of us saying anything thing.
Even without the romantic side
enjoying a makhiana lassi
of it, there is really quite a painful side to the whole travelling thing, in terms of meeting and parting with people in such quick succession. I think, for me anyway, it's a combination of being away from all the people you are close to, so it's easy to end up getting attached to people really quickly,and you are also in intense situations with people, having to sort stuff out travel, accommodation, problems that arise etc. Being in situations where you end up spending 24/7 with people you hardly know adds to the whole intensity thing; and aside from feeling upset about what did/didn't happen with Mike, I also just miss him a bit now, as we were together almost constantly for a week and he really is a lovely guy and good company, and he really looked out for me. So far I am not finding it easier with time, to say goodbye to people all the time. In some ways it seems to get worse.....
Till then, I'm on the train tonight up to the Punjab. (sleeper class this time, so no blankets and no toilets you would want to aim your bum even close to - if I'm lucky actually as my ticket is not even confirmed yet, so it could even be corridor class, or roof class) With just about two weeks left now in India, I am feeling very mixed about the prospect of leaving. I really have had amazing times here and as time has gone on I love it here more and more, though find it difficult to say exactly what it is about the place that makes me feel like this. Maybe I have become quite addicted to the sensory overload, and the fact that life here only operates on extremes, which means it may be intensely frustrating at times, but also intensely fantastic at other times, and never boring. I am thinking seriously of returning here after my time in Australasia, so we'll see what happens. On the other hand, after 5 months here I am also feeling tired, as it is definitely a challenging place to be; and I'm hugely excited to be meeting my good friend Tracey in Singapore on April 1, can't wait to see her. We will be travelling together to Hong Kong and Tokyo.
So I will do one more blog from India after this. From Amritsar in the Punjab, my plan is to go to Dharamsala, (home of the Dalai Lama) a hill station in the Himalayas, and then down to Delhi for my last few days.
Oh and as you've probably gathered, I didn't do the camel trek in the end. I blame the rain...
Sorry for the ramble. xxx :-)
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I'm originally from London, England, and left everything to go travelling in October 2006, with just a one way ticket taking me to India, Singapore, Bangkok and Sydney. The rest was up to me and left largely unplanned, purposely - I wanted my travelling to take me rather than me controlling it. I had no idea how long I was going to be away for, or when, or if, I'd be back. In the end I travelled for 15 months, spending the first 6 months travelling all around India, a long-time dream of mine, then on to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand again, Austra...
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Debbie, so nice reading all about your adventures...you make me laugh all the time ..."im a doctor"...you want my thali?" i can just imagine it! Love your writing too..off to finally write you an email :) xxx
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Hi Blog FANTASTIC, mine is amyscotland25.blogspot.com - i think we should team up and write travel books together - we can both ramble on for hours! I cant beilieve I have found someone with a blog longer than mine!!! Amy xx
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A steam plume billows in January from the Ormat Steamboat geothermal complex just south of Reno.
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Question: We live in Raleigh Heights. Looking to the South on some cold mornings we will see a large steam plume rising. I've heard it is from a geothermal facility. Can you provide some details?
Rich Trenery
Answer: This is a popular question of people living near south Reno or those traveling through Washoe Valley.
The plume is steam from the Steamboat geothermal complex just south of Reno, which taps into the Earth's crust. The complex is owned by Ormat Technologies, a geothermal energy developer with a handful of complexes around Northern Nevada.
The complex collects geothermal fluid and steam directed to power plants, which create electrical energy, Ormat spokeswoman Heidi Bethel said.
There are seven plants at the Steamboat geothermal complex location. All but one of the plants uses air-cooled technology, which does not produce a plume. That specific plant is known as the "flash plant," Bethel said.
"A water cooling tower is used to turn the steam back into a liquid to be reused," she said. "This process creates steam forming the plume."
The visibility and size of the plume depends on atmospheric conditions, such as cold weather or high humidity, she said.
Nevada is the second largest geothermal producing state behind only California. The University of Nevada, Reno snagged the first-ever National Geothermal Academy program in the country in 2011 and several projects are in the works throughout Nevada, Bethel said.
Steamboat is one of five Ormat-owned complexes in Northern Nevada, and it is the largest Ormat complex in the state. For a map of other locations and more information on Ormat, click here: www.ormat.com/global-project.
The Geothermal Energy Association also has an educational site with basic information on geothermal energy: http://geo-energy.org/basics.aspx.

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The what-the-hell-it's-just-a-sequel spirit of "Shanghai Knights" is best represented by a scene that finds Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, the mismatched buddies of "Shanghai Noon," surrounded by hookers in a hotel room in Victorian London. At this juncture, like many others, the movie seems stymied in its search for inspiration. Suddenly Mr. Wilson cries "Pillow fight!" and feathers fly. Nothing else, before or after, flies as gracefully. The action stuff is more spasmodic than balletic, notwithstanding Mr. Chan's exertions, while a vague joylessness subverts the manic comedy. Still, new notions keep popping up. Umbrella duel a la "Singin' in the Rain"! Artless version of the Artful Dodger! Big chase through Covent Garden! (The production notes call it "The Convent Garden.") Big fight atop Big Ben! The gears and wheels inside this evocation of the venerable clock tower are massive enough for a locomotive factory, let alone a machine for telling time, but no matter. "Shanghai Knights" is a machine for killing time, and it does so fairly painlessly.
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It's not as original as "Shanghai Noon," which was a first feature by Tom Dey, and a particularly tricky act to follow. That cross-cultural Western, set in the late 1880s, took its charming, anachronistic tone from the interplay between Mr. Chan's bumbling Chinese warrior, an Imperial Guard named Chon Wang (sounds like John Wayne), and Mr. Wilson's neurotic cowboy, Roy O'Bannon, a proto-surfer-slacker-dude with a new-age soul. ("Be positive," Roy told himself desperately before a gun duel. "Be the bullet.") Audiences weren't sure what to make of the film, which performed quite well at the box office but never broke out to become a big hit. This time around, the producers have stressed action and location over charm, reasonably enough, and shipped their twosome off under the direction of David Dobkin. (Actually the movie was shot, by Adrian Biddle, in regions as far-flung as Calgary and the Czech Republic, but it looks convincingly English.)
"Shanghai Knights," like "Shanghai Noon," was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and opens once again in the Forbidden City, where a pretender to the British throne becomes complicit in a dastardly deed. (Is it logic you're after? Try the Learning Channel.) The new movie briefly mimics "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," but Mr. Dobkin's style settles into something crudely akin to Hope and Crosby on the road, with frequent eruptions of kung fu and whatever bits of music fit the moment -- The Who, rockabilly, even Aimee Mann singing "One" when Roy O'Bannon, now a self-mythologizing novelist, sits alone at a bar. The script also invokes other movies, from "Oliver!" (the Covent Garden/Dodger scenes) to silent comedies by Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin (indeed, this Dodger is named Charlie Chaplin) and Harold Lloyd (Mr. Chan hanging from Big Ben's minute hand in a homage to, or cheerful theft from, Lloyd's classic "Safety Last").
These sequences are entertaining, thanks to Mr. Chan's good-natured, indefatigable energy (it's easy to forgive him for his previous film, "The Tuxedo"), and to the droll humor, with plaintive overtones, that Mr. Wilson always brings to his roles. The more you think about those solidly crafted old comedies, though -- and "Shanghai Knights" gives the mind ample time to wander -- the more you notice the sloppiness and impoverishment of this one. Setups often fail to pay off; the writers may have lost interest, or heart. Combatants flail around in fight scenes lacking clarity, let alone the panache of first-rate kung fu. Some of the obligatory outtakes look staged. Can outtakes have outtakes? That might be worth exploring next time around.
'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days'
Before I deal with the nitty-gritty of "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days" -- or rather the nitty-nitty, because there's no grit to be found in this fluffball of a romantic comedy -- I must report that I saw an SUV this week, on Overland Avenue in West Los Angeles, with a bumper sticker that said "I brake for Robert Evans." I don't get the joke, if truth be told, but Mr. Evans is one of the film's producers, and I don't get the script's basic joke either, so there may be a pattern.
That's not to say I don't understand the laborious premise. Kate Hudson's Andie Anderson, a staff writer for a women's magazine called Composure, has 10 days in which to do a piece on how women drive men away. Because she's devoted to first-person journalism, and because this is a gimmicky comedy for young filmgoers, she decides to pick a man more or less at random, get him to fall in love with her and then make so many common dating mistakes that he will dump her. (In other words it's an exercise in passive-aggressive behavior, though Paramount doesn't seem to be stressing that in the TV trailers.) At the same time, the man Andie picks for her victim, an advertising executive named Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey), has made a bet with his boss that he can get a woman to fall in love with him in 10 days.
This is, to be sure, a remarkable coincidence, the kind of dummkopf device found mainly in movies that imitate classic screwball comedies without understanding how elegantly simple their plots could be. And you can bet that it's all an elaborate preface to true love. But the unfathomable part of "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" is why Ben would spend as much as a day with a woman as whining, cloying, clinging and endlessly demanding as Andie makes herself out to be. Yes, he's got his own bet to win, and yes, Kate Hudson can be adorable in the worst of circumstances, but doesn't the poor fool have any pride?
The movie isn't all bad, and it's sure to succeed with its target audience. Every now and then -- during a card game, in her bathroom, on his motorcycle -- genuine feelings bubble up through the muck of contrivance. Each time they do, both Ms. Hudson and Mr. McConaughey relax, drop their nervous smiles and become as appealing as you'd want them to be. "I meant every word," she tells him with sweet simplicity toward the end, when love seems to have been lost amidst too many lies. I almost believed it.
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DVD TIP: Orson Welles wrote and directed "Lady From Shanghai" (1948). He also stars in this intricate murder mystery as an Irish sailor who sails off on a Pacific cruise -- aboard a yacht actually owned by Errol Flynn -- with Rita Hayworth as a fatefully seductive actress and Everett Sloane as her crippled husband. The movie, which is famous for its hall-of-mirrors climax, doesn't have much to do with Shanghai, but don't let that deter you.
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While Kevin Willard and the Pirates had been mentioned off and on by Whitehead throughout his recruitment, nobody looked at the Pirates as a serious contender until he visited Seton Hall last weekend.
Whatever Willard said, it worked. And by adding Whitehead, he's added the most significant recruit for the Pirates since Eddie Griffin picked them as a member of their 2000 recruiting class.
"Seton Hall saw me as the face of the program; St. John's didn't really see me as that," Whitehead said. "I want to be the face of the team and lead Seton Hall to a championship.
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Make no mistake about it, Whitehead is a big-time player and Seton Hall is making big-time moves on the recruiting trail.
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Re: TNG: Silent Weapons by David Mack Review Thread (Spoilers!)
My full review will be out soon on Trek.fm but:
I loved the issues that Picard and Crusher are having. They are real issues that people face as you marry one person and as the years go by they change and become almost another person and you learn to love all over again. Crusher dealing with the seeming hypocrisy of Picard must bring up anger in her because of Jack. This is great character writing! Well done Mack for reminding us that these people are human.
I really like that Picard is changing, that he is embracing what it means to have a family with open arms. The fact that these characters are not static is leaving me ecstatic! The same with Geordi finally getting the spotlight, he's the second officer of the flagship, this man is no dummy; glad to see David shine a light on the engineer.
I have no problem with the Unitarian church being used. I am a Christian who believes in the Trinity, but having it here was nice. It was great to see that well respected characters have faith and it is not looked down on.
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|Heliotropium (hee-lee-oh-TROH-pee-um) (Info)
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Flowers are good for cutting
Flowers are good for drying and preserving
This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds
Flowers are fragrant
Requires consistently moist soil; do not let dry out between waterings
12-18 in. (30-45 cm)
18-24 in. (45-60 cm)
24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
18-24 in. (45-60 cm)
24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
Not Applicable
Full Sun
Sun to Partial Shade
Light Shade
Partial to Full Shade
White/Near White
Mid Summer
Late Summer/Early Fall
Mid Fall
Late Fall/Early Winter
This plant is resistant to deer
May be a noxious weed or invasive
From seed; direct sow outdoors in fall
From seed; winter sow in vented containers, coldframe or unheated greenhouse
From seed; stratify if sowing indoors
From seed; sow indoors before last frost
From seed; germinate in a damp paper towel
Self-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season
Bag seedheads to capture ripening seed
Collect seedhead/pod when flowers fade; allow to dry
Allow pods to dry on plant; break open to collect seeds
Allow seedheads to dry on plants; remove and collect seeds
Properly cleaned, seed can be successfully stored
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Cabot, Arkansas
Morrilton, Arkansas
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Pontotoc, Mississippi
Longview, Texas
On Sep 27, 2010, erika_conn from Hastings
I live in Hastings, Ontario, Canada, Zone 5a but I like to plant flowers and shrubs that are hardy to at least Zone 4, just to be on the safe side.
On Mar 27, 2007, Heavinscent from South West, LA (Zone 9a) wrote:
I had this planted in a rock garden and didn't find it to be invasive at all. It produced thousands of seeds but I didn't even get one volunteer plant to pull. I'm hoping I will get at least one plant from the seeds I collected for this years garden.


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Mon., October 10, 2011 3:58am
WEEK 8 Football Rankings
Class 5A featured a bit of a shakeup following the Winnersville Classic as Lowndes dropped out of the poll and Valdosta entered at No. 10.
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Week 5 Football Rankings
Ware County fell to No. 10 in Class AAAA following its loss to Lowndes. I was tempted to take the Gators out altogether and throw in the Raiders of Mays, but Ware County's schedule is a bit tougher than the Mays schedule to date.
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What's Going On With Mingo?
Where is the production this year? I expected him to explode as a full time starter but he's only got about 1.5 sacks. Love him as an athlete but what gives LSU fans?
Not an LSU fan, but I've been calling him overrated all along. Great physical talent doesn't always translate to the field, and in this case it was pretty obvious that he lacked the strength and technique to be considered a top prospect. So look for Seattle to draft him in the top 20... *sigh*
I gotta disagree with both of you guys here. Despite not getting many sacks he is getting tons of pressure and penetration. His burst off the ball is one of the best I have seen. He is a lock for a top ten pick and probably my #1 pass rusher
And like AntoinCD said, he still gets pressure, sure might not get sacks but he gets after it and gains penetration quite often. It is like calling Jared Allen a bad pass rusher because he only has two sacks this season.
Yeah, way off base. Mingo is getting a lot of pressure on the QB. He's also getting a lot of attention, with the OT he's lined up against getting help from TE, RB, and even LG. He's still a top 7 pick, but I wouldn't pick him ahead of Jarvis Jones, even though I think he's probably got better pass rushing upside than Jones (Jones more versatile).
Not that I've seen him play mutch but I guess I'm just suprised he has been #1 on almost every single big board and mock I've seen. No matter what happens he won't drop out of that #1 slot. I know he's good, I didn't think he was a solid lock for the best player and first off the board no matter what (even at this point in the season as a guess)
but I don't know much about all this, pretty new to the whole draft game
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-- For the first time since 1940, California lost residents to other states. Over the last several years, many businesses left California for business-friendly states like Utah and Nevada, resulting in a loss, since 2001, of nearly 300,000 jobs in manufacturing alone. This hurts, because, in a state of over 30 million, with almost 15 million tax filers, 11 percent of California taxpayers -- those earning more than $100,000 per year -- pay 80 percent of the state's income tax, while the top 5 percent pay nearly 70 percent of income taxes, and just 330,000 "high-income" taxpayers -- the top 2 percent -- shoulder about 50 percent of the state's income taxes.
But, even worse, some Democratic politicians blatantly and cynically wanted the budget crisis to worsen . Why? As mentioned, California law requires a two-thirds legislative majority to hike taxes. While Republican intransigence ultimately produced a budget without an increase in the state's already high sales and income taxes, this frustrated Democratic lawmakers who wanted to close the budget deficit by increasing taxes. At a "budget crisis" strategy session in Sacramento on how to drum up support for a ballot initiative that would let the Legislature increase taxes with just a 55-percent approval vote, 11 California Democratic members of the Assembly inadvertently left their microphone open. The remarks -- transmitted to 500 "squawk box" speakers -- allowed fellow lawmakers, lobbyists and others to hear their meeting.
Hyper-liberal Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg (D-Los Angeles) said, "Since this is going to be a crisis, the crisis could be this year. No one's running (for re-election). And maybe you end up better off than you would have, and maybe you don't. But what you do is you show people that you can't get to this without a 55 percent vote." Fellow Democrat Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) said, "If you don't have a budget, it helps Democrats. If you don't have a budget, it helps Democrats on the 55 percent (initiative). The folks that are heading up the anti-recall effort think if you don't have the budget, it helps Democrats in the recall effort." When a staffer burst in to inform the lawmakers about their "hot" mike, Goldberg said, "Oh, (expletive) (expletive)."
The recall already accomplished two big things. First, while the newly passed budget includes borrowing, fanciful assumptions and accounting tricks, it failed to include -- as the governor wanted -- an increase in either the state income tax or the state sales tax. Second, as the recall effort gained steam, the governor backed down from a threatened lawsuit to overturn the two-thirds super-majority required to raise taxes.
Score two for the tax-weary voters. Or, as lawmaker Goldberg might have put it, "Oh, (expletive), (expletive)!"
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SALISBURY — An assault victims two wishes were followed in the sentencing of her former therapist Wednesday: The man wont be a therapist anymore, and he wont go to jail.
Those requests were relayed to the court by Wicomico County Assistant States Attorney Kristen Schultz, who read a victim impact statement written by the woman, who decided not to be in the courtroom.
I feel like you used me, and you used my vulnerability against me, Schultz read. The Daily Times does not identify the victims of sex-related crimes.
After the victim went to the Salisbury Police Department on May 6 and described inappropriate behavior by her mental health therapist, Clarence W. Green Jr., now 58, of Salisbury.
Green faced five charges including two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of fourth-degree sex offense and indecent exposure.
In Wicomico County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Green pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault in connection with an inappropriate hug that occurred in February.
The remaining counts against him were dismissed.
He was sentenced to two years of supervised probation, with a six-month suspended sentence.
As part of the agreement, Green who was previously employed at Three Lower Counties Community Services Inc. in Salisbury also agreed to forfeit his therapist license. His license had been suspended while this case was pending, according to Greens attorney, David Moore.
Judge Kathleen Beckstead ordered Green to pay $145 in court costs and a $500 fine.
In a short statement that was difficult to hear from the courtroom gallery, Green said he is very remorseful. He declined to comment after court.
Hes human, he stepped out of line; hes remorseful for it, he regrets that, Moore said during court.
In sentencing, Beckstead cited Greens acknowledgment of his action, his career in helping others and that he doesnt have a prior criminal record.
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Inside Audeze #2
Over the past few months we have been testing our planar microphones at some prestigious studios with encouraging results.Here is a picture from last week's test.
Audeze at T.H.E. Show Newport Beach
We're looking forward to exhibiting at the T.H.E. Show Newport at the Hilton Headphonium, May 30th through June 1st. Audeze headphones can be auditioned on a variety of components including the Meridian Director and Prime, Violectric, Auralic, Soloos, and a Cavalli Liquid Gold, all wired up with Nordost cables. See you there!
Audeze Exhibits at Munich High End Show
Audeze CEO Alex Rosson on Bloomberg TV
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Inside Audeze #1
Massimo, a customer in Italy, emailed us a few weeks ago asking for pictures of the Audeze offices. We've had a few similar requests and so we decided to show you what we love doing here at Audeze. Here is a first in the series of Inside Audeze posts.
Our first design was the LCD-1. We used an off-the-shelf headphone and installed our own drivers, then showed the hybrid at CanJam 2009. The response was amazing and many Head-Fi enthusiasts encouraged us to make an even better headphone.
We started designing the LCD-2 in late 2009. Our initial driver and enclosure design for the LCD-2 was rectangular. After a number of renderings we showed the design to our trusted woodworker Jesse. Unfortunately he thought it would be too difficult to make.
We also wanted to make a simple headband that would be very comfortable and settled on a one-piece bent steel spring.
But that also proved too difficult to manufacture so it was back to the drawing board. Finally we came up with the current and comfortable design.
|Renderings of the revised design.
Audeze, Butterscotch Records, Touch Vinyl and UCLA Radio Host Event in LA
Audeze, Butterscotch Records, Touch Vinyl and UCLA Radio Host Event in LA
Mikael Jorgensen and Graph Rabbit perform live on February 22nd at 7pm
Audeze is teaming up with Butterscotch Records, and UCLA Radio for a special event at Touch Vinyl in LA on Saturday, February 22nd.
The event centers around special high-end turntable listening stations organized for the event by Audeze. It's an opportunity to hear LPs expertly cut by vinyl prodigy Alex Deturk (read the CNET article here).
At 7pm the dreamy, ambient-acoustic duo Graph Rabbit will play along with the electronic synth-jams of Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco.
"In the era of compressed MP3s and horrible earbuds dangling from phones, I'm thrilled that people will get a chance to hear our records in analog on some of the best turntables and headphones available," said Allen Farmelo of Butterscotch Records.
"We're vinyl junkies at Audeze," said Alex Rosson, CEO of Audeze. "We love what Butterscotch Records and Touch Vinyl are doing and we're honored to be a part of this."
Join us Saturday, February 22nd, 1646 Sawtelle Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025, telephone (310) 933-5540.
Balanced Cables for LCD-X and LCD-XC
At the end of January we had to ship some LCD-X and XC units without balanced cables due to supply issues. Our sincere apologies to those who found the cable missing. If you're a customer who didn't receive a balanced cable and would like one, please write to firstname.lastname@example.com and include your serial number and proof of purchase. We'll work to ship you a free cable as quickly as possible.
The LCD-X and XC will once again ship with both sets of cables (single-ended and balanced) in the beginning of March. We appreciate your patience and support.
Audeze at NAMM - Guide to Partnering Manufacturers
Audeze will be in several booths exhibiting at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show, Thursday, Jan. 23rd through Sunday, Jan. 26.
NAMM is where the world's most important buyers and decision makers converge at the music product industry's premier event. The NAMM Show is where brands are built, legends are created and deals are made.
Here's where you can find Audeze:
MXL Microphones/Marshall Electronics - Booth 6990 Hall A
SPL Sound Performance Lab - Booth 6847 Hall A
Benchmark Media Systems - Booth 6928 Hall A
Antelope Audio - Booth 7118 Arena
Gobbler - Booth 6921 Hall A
G-Technology - Booth 5499 Hall B
The NAMM Show takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center, 800 West Katella Avenue in Anaheim, California.
Enjoy the show!
Audeze Partners with Chris Milk at Sundance Film Festival
Famed Audio Visual designer Chris Milk debuts his groundbreaking Virtual Reality system at the Sundance Film Festival with audio partner Audeze. The ongoing Festival runs through January 26th.
The revolutionary virtual reality system, the first of its kind, opens the floodgates for VR technology that will forever change the way people experience music, film and live performance. The project was realized in conjunction with Oculus VR, 3d-io and automobile manufacturer Lincoln.
Alex Rosson, Audeze CEO, said: "We're honored to provide the headphones that are part of this breathtaking virtual reality experience. Our participation reaffirms Audeze's commitment to dissolving the barrier between performer and audience by advancing the way art and media are perceived by the user."
Oculus Rift's Virtual Reality system makes it possible to be onstage with Beck, immersed in exciting sound and vision, making it easy to suspend disbelief and be one with the music. You can choose to leave the stage and roam around the audience… VR technology radically transforms the concert experience.
Milk captured the reimagined 1977 David Bowie song "Sound and Vision" using newly-patented technologies like full spherical image capture and 360-degree binaural/multi-aural audio recording. Reengineered for a virtual reality platform, the user can experience the first live-action film for the Oculus Rift VR headset as never before.
About Chris Milk
Chris Milk is an artist, director, and photographer who has created music videos for Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Johnny Cash, Norah Jones, Jack White, U2, Gnarls Barkley, Green Day, and many more. Known for his artistically and technologically innovative approach to cross-media storytelling, Milk's acclaimed interactive projects include The Johnny Cash Project and Wilderness Downtown with Arcade Fire. His interactive installation artworks have been shown around the world including New York City's MoMA and London's Tate Modern.


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Grey's Anatomy Preview: A Surprise Hook-Up, Plus a Finale in Which 'Anybody Could Go'
Grey's Anatomy Preview: A Surprise Hook-Up, Plus a Finale in Which 'Anybody Could Go'
The halls of Seattle Grace Hospital might be a little less crowded next season, thanks to a cliffhanger finale in which "anybody could go," Grey's Anatomy star Sarah Drew reveals to TVLine. But before the residents can leave the nest, they have to pass the boards, the stress of which will send Drew's virginal April into bed with her best friend in this Thursday's episode (ABC, 9/8c)!
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TVLINE | Am I crazy or are Kepner and Avery getting it on in the promo for this week's episode?!
[Laughs] They're definitely hooking up, but I cannot reveal whether she loses her virginity or not.
TVLINE | When your characters entered the series, they were the two newbies and they were friends, so it made sense for them to go there. Are you surprised that it's taken so long?
I was actually surprised when I read the script that they would hook up because they are such good friends. They've been established as sort of a brother/sister, best-friend relationship. I actually didn't even see it coming. Once the storyline started playing out, I was looking online and realizing that there are a lot of people really rooting for them to get together, which is kind of funny because I was definitely not expecting it. But just because they make out in this episode, that does not mean they're becoming a couple. They have a really interesting journey as they're navigating having crossed this line a little bit over the next four episodes. It's really fun, really interesting and pretty unique. And I really loved working with Jesse [Williams].
TVLINE | What leads them to this moment? It's so out of the blue.
Yeah, it does feel totally out of the blue. It all is associated with the crazy energy and stress and anxiety of the boards. All these [residents] have been working for [years] for this moment, and they've been studying their asses off and working super hard. This is the defining moment that catapults them into their actual careers. It's super high anxiety and super high stress. Everybody deals with that stress in different ways. April's way is that she's so stressed out, she's like literally jumping out of her skin. That's what motivates this moment. And then we'll see the fallout of making that decision to flirt with that line with her best friend. She is jumping out of her skin and just wants to make out. He's a really safe bet because they're so close.
TVLINE | The promo also shows her punching somebody.
[Laughs] There are some surprising things that come out about April in this episode that you would not think that she would be capable of. That is all part of the anxiety and the heightened reality of the moment. Part of her jumping out of her skin is also yelling at Meredith and punching a guy in the face and making out with her best friend. [Laughs]
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TVLINE | It sounds like you got to do a lot of things that have been a long time coming for her.
Oh yeah! The last four episodes for April are really fun. We really do see a huge transformation of her character, and all these different shades and colors of who she is come out that we haven't seen before.
TVLINE | We know that one of the residents will fail the boards. Should we be worried?
Basically, all of the residents are up for jobs at other places. Everybody's future is totally uncertain by the end of the episode. Everybody's being offered jobs. Yes, there is one person who fails, but that doesn't put that person in a different boat than everybody else. Everybody else is potentially going and working at other hospitals in other places. It's still very cliffhangery for all of the characters, especially all of the [residents]. But yes, there is one person who fails, which ends up creating a lot of drama for everybody.


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