academia calling

S went to do an ethnographic study. those babies need a lot of interviewing and everything else. so he went over to call in on one of the people he really needed to talk to and was told "wo to chali gayin hai". being the patient bengali academic, he asked "shaam tak ayegi kya?" he was given the once over and was told "aj to unhka kreeyakaram hai". scene being bihar, the conversation that followed was not pretty.
he also spent a hundred and fifty rupees and a considerable number of cigarette packets in bribes each day, just to access material in public archives and libraries, got almost beaten up by constables of the bihar state police for taking pictures, shunned as a horrible hindu for objecting to the presence of twenty dogs in a reading room and to top it all he walked into a beer bar and ordered (successfully) buttered toast.
i'm feeling very ambivalent about going back to grad school.