Sitting Here in Limbo

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Panorama of Udaipur from Jag Mandir Island, Rajasthan, India (Photo by S. Ballal)

We are still here and likely to remain another week.

After multiple phone calls & emails, I know that ticketing got complicated, landing us in the middle of the Holi festival, delaying meetings in Delhi, delaying arrival in Santiniketan... Conclusion: wait at least a week.

Unfortunately, this only exacerbates the difficulties we already had departing just a few days behind schedule. Celia will have to return home early in order to begin school in August.  I am discouraged about my fall course.  Though department chair, Professor Houde, is entirely understanding, I feel awful inconveniencing her, the students, everyone.  It's just not how I was taught to do things.

On the bright side, it seems there is a meeting in Udaipur that I can attend after the Delhi business. Though I don't know much about Udaipur, photos make it look like quite the wonderful area. I will use some of my limbo time to read up on it.


 A little discouraged this evening, but still geared up to go.

[And, though Holi in Santiniketan sounded like fun, it's probably just fine to miss it on our first day in Delhi.]

Sitting here in Limbo, but I know it won't be long.
... Sitting here in Limbo, so many things I've got to learn.
Meanwhile, they're putting up a resistance,
But I know that my faith will lead me on.
- Jimmy Cliff