just like old times

Now that I am all alone in Bombay (well, except for those 19 million other people), I've reverted to the habits I cultivated when we used to live at the hotel--knitting, eating cereal for dinner, and watching a lot of National Geographic Channel. Next up, Megastructures: Garbage Mountain. (Apparently NatGeo has been filming down the street from here.) To add to the nostalgia, I am still seeing all the same commercials they were running last summer: Hrithik Roshan is still selling chocolate chip cookies, bizarre space aliens are still selling car batteries, and everyone and his mother are still selling skin lightening cream. Alex and Casey know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, I am still working through the Yarn Mountain sent to me here last year by my ass kicking MEOW kitties, and I decided it was time to make something other than socks. So, I present to you the April May Wristwarmers. Or at least they'll be wristwarmers when I finish the second one.

It just occurred to me that it would be difficult to knit wristwarmers for Hrithik Roshan. I won't actually post a photo of his extra thumb, but you can click on that if you want to. You sicko.

doing the needful

So, in emails our office manager often uses the expression "do the needful" when he means "do what is required." As in, "I will do the needful and arrange to have someone come fix your air conditioner (again)/arrange for an electrician to (possibly) fix your exploded outlet (but probably not)/get new keys made (because yours don't actually fit the lock)/etc."

I thought this was just a quirk of his idiolect, as he is not a native English speaker. We have a running joke about how "doing the needful" sounds vaguely pornographic.

But just now in Dhoom II, Hrithik Roshan, he of the auspicious and SEXY extra thumb, tells (the correctly thumbed) Aishwarya Rai to...



DO THE NEED FULL!!!

My life is now complete.