{"id":1094,"date":"2009-10-09T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/10\/09\/thursday-night-real\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:40:00","slug":"thursday-night-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/10\/09\/thursday-night-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Real ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First of all.. Happy Karwa Chauth !<\/p>\n

Today is Karwa Chauth\u00a0 which (I quote<\/b>) is celebrated mostly by the married<\/p>\n

women in North India. On this day, they observe a fast, praying for the<\/p>\n

long life, well being and prosperity of their husband. They break their<\/p>\n

fast in the evening, after moonrise. On this sacred festival, people<\/p>\n

come together and socialize with friends and family, exchange gifts and<\/p>\n

share home-cooked meals. It also provides an opportunity to all married<\/p>\n

women, to get close to their in-laws. Karwa Chauth is the festival<\/p>\n

which reflects joy, splendor, brightness and happiness of a married<\/p>\n

life. <\/i>(end quote) <\/b><\/p>\n

I hope those who celebrate Karwa Chauth had a good one. Kind of a cool tradtion, but the very interesting thing is that the guys never have a day where they have to fast for the ladies.\u00a0\u00a0 What’s up with that ? <\/p>\n

Not much to report for the day.. I continue to burrow further back into my old precolony life though every day still brings at least a doze convresations about the show experience.\u00a0\u00a0 One hting that’s fun about that is that I’m now developing a mental list of the most common questions.. They are generally:<\/p>\n

1. What’s\u00a0 up with the handyman, what’s he really like (Mike, what do you want me to tell them \ud83d\ude42\u00a0
2. Did you know that Diane was coming (no)
3. How much of the experience seemed real to you<\/p>\n

Number 3 is my favorite.. people want to know if we ever forgot that we were on a tv show.(no). I explain that all of us were completely vested in the experiment and that sometimes that lead us to over react.\u00a0 But I explain that we weren’t faking starvation, dehydration or filth.. nor were we faking anger when one of hte bad guy\/actors harassed us , stole soemthing\u00a0 or broke soemthing of ours. Nor were we faking it when some of us were yelling at each other due to tension. <\/p>\n

What number 3 has got m wondering is .. how much does my current<\/i> experience seem real to me ? I mean.. waking up , driving to work and spending 8 AM till 6PM talking into the phone.. hearing other folks voices, but never seeing them.. or .. visiting them in second life… how real is that ? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I think the Colony seemed more real to me than my job does.. I need to bring that back into clarity If I’m going to succeed.. and I will succeed.. I need to.. <\/p>\n

Anyway.. nothing else new.. Had a great IEEE meeting tonight.. then met Diane and the Lavoie’s at higher ground to hear Jen’s, sister’s sister-in-law, Mirah<\/a> . She was just amazing !\u00a0 Check her out !<\/div>\n

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yikes.. midnight again.. gotta sleeeeeeeep\u00a0 Nite folks. sleep well.. Nite Sam
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First of all.. Happy Karwa Chauth ! Today is Karwa Chauth\u00a0 which (I quote) is celebrated mostly by the married women in North India. On this day, they observe a fast, praying for the long life, well being and prosperity of their husband. They break their fast in the evening, after moonrise. On this sacred … Continue reading Thursday night – Real ?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}